its discovery was due to “ Frau Raronin von Josika, ge- 
bohren Grafin Czaki,” he named it in compliment to that 
distinguished lady, and gave it a specific character.—In 
another part of the same work we find that not only is the 
present species a native of Germany, but that the common 
Lilac, S. vulgaris, which has hitherto been considered 
almost exclusively of Persian origin, is stated, by Dr. Heur- 
rez to adorn with its copious blossoms the inaccessible 
chalky precipices of the Cverna Valley and Mount Doma- 
elett in Hungary, as well as the whole groupe of rocks 
along the Danube, at the military boundaries of Mol- 
dowa, Szaszka, Csiklova, and Krassova. 
Our T. Josikea, which flowers in the open border in May 
and June, is thus described by Dr. Granam, who received 
the plant at the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh from Mr. 
Boorn, of Hamburg, in 1833. 
Shrub erect ; branches spreading, very slightly warted, 
twigs purple. Leaves (three inches long, an inch and a 
quarter broad) elliptico- lanceolate, attenuated at both 
extremities, shining and lurid above, white * and veined 
below, wrinkled, glabrous on both sides, ciliated, cilie# 
short. Panicle terminal, erect. Calyx, like the pedicels, 
peduncles, rachis, petiole, middle rib of the leaf and the 
branches, pretty closely covered with short, glandular pu- 
bescence, four-toothed, teeth blunt, and much shorter than 
the tube. Corolla (half an inch long) clavato-funnel-shaped, 
deep lilac, glabrous, wrinkled ; tube slightly compressed ; 
limb erect, four-parted, segments involute at their edges. 
Stamens adhering to about the middle of the tube ; anthers 
incumbent, oblong, yellow. Pistil much shorter than the 
tube ; stigmata large, cohering ; style filiform, glabrous ; 
germen green, glabrous, bilocular ; ovules four. Graham. 
ee 
* Resembling, as is well observed by REICHENBACH, the underside of 
the leaves of Poputus balsamifera. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Calyx and Pistil. 4. Pistil. 
