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PHILADELPHUS mexicamk 

 Mexican Syringa, 



ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nut. ord. PhiladelphacejE. 

 PHILADELPHUS, Botanical Register, 1838, ^ 14. 



V.mexicanus; ramis laxis pubescentibus dependentibus, foliis ovatis acutis- 

 sime acuminatis remote et argute denticulatis integerrimisve triplinerviis 

 siibtus hirtellis supra dein glabris, floribus solitariis ternisve in apicibus 

 ramulorum, calycis obconici dense pubescentis laciniis ]at^ ovatis quasi 

 mucronato-acuminatis, stylis 4 ad basim fere liberis stamina subsequan- 

 tibus (petalis subrotundis). Schlecht. in Linncea, vol. 13. p. 418. 



This new half-hardy, or perhaps hardy, shrub has been 

 introduced by the Horticultural Society from Mexico, by the 

 assistance of Mr. Hartweg, It forms a small bush, with 

 weak branches, and has the merit of being an excellent plant 

 for forcing. 



I refer it to the P. mexicanus of Schlechtendahl, but with 

 some doubt, for that author says his styles are almost distinct 

 to the base, which is by no means the case here. I perceive 

 however no difference between the garden plant and his own 

 specimens, now before me, except that they are, as he says, 

 double, and that may account for the disunion of the styles. 



It is cultivated at Jalapa, and grows wild in the hedges 

 there ; also at Oaxaca and the city of Mexico, according to 

 Schlechtendahl. Hartweg found it at the Hacienda del 

 Carmen, which is mentioned in the Linnasa as the locality of 

 Philadelphus afRnis, a species with 5-flowered racemes, and 

 therefore very different from this. 



Schlechtendahl is probably right in regarding this plant 

 as the Acuilotl or climbing aquatic of Hernandez ; at least 

 his figure is a fair representation of it. This old author 



