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NAT. ORDER. 



OlcinccB. 



SYKiNGiA josikj]:a. gekman lilac. 



Class IT. DiANDRiA. Order I. Monogynia. 



Geyi. Char. Corolla^ funnel-shaped, or companulate, four-parted. 



Stamens, two, short. Fi^uit, capsular, two-celled. •' ■ . ^ 



Spe. Cliar. Calyx, small, four-toothed. Stigma, bifid. Capsule, 



ovate, compressed, two-celled, two-valved, two-seeded. Leaves, 



ovate-lanceolate. 



This skrah rises erect from six to eight feet in height ; branches 

 spreading, very slightly warted, twigs purple ; leaves about three 

 inches long and an inch and a quarter broad, elliptical-lanceolate, at- 

 tenuated at both ends, shining and lurid above, white and veined be- 

 low, wrinkled, glabrous on both sides, ciliated, 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 

 pubescence, four-toothed, teeth blunt and much shorter than the tube ; 

 corolla half an inch long, clavate-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 ; jnstil much shorter than the 

 tube ; stigmas large, cohering ; style filiform, glabrous ; germen green, 

 glabrous, bilocular ; ovals four. 



This is a new species of lilac, and though less beautiful than the 

 two in common cultivation, yet being equally hardy it cannot fail to 

 be a most acceptable ornament to our gardens and shrubberies. The 

 Vol. IV.— 161. 



