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x S.p. 4salvifilia Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, has the leaves somewhat hoary, 
like those of the common sage. 
& 4. S. rornomaGE’NsIs Renault. The Rouen Lilac. 
Synonymes. S. dubia’ Pers. Ench., 1. p. 9. ; Lilaceum rothomagénse Renault Fl. de VOrne., p. 100. 
S. média Dum. Cours., 1. p. 709., Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836; Lilas Varin, N. Du Ham.; S. chinénsis 
es Sp.» 1. p.48., Berol. Baumz., p.498., Don’s Mill., 4. p. 51.; S. sibirica Hort. ; the Siberian 
ilac, Hor 
Engravings. N. Du Ham., 2. t. 63. ; and our fig. 1041. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Flowers purple. (Don’s Mill, iv. 
p-51.) An intermediate plant between S. vulgaris and S. pérsica. In 
Belgium, there is a hybrid between this and 8. 
vulgaris, called S. média, or the Belgic Lilas de 
Marly; which is probably the S. rothomagénsis 
of Turp. et Poit. Fl.de Par. Ashrub, from 6 ft. 
to 8ft. high; a hybrid between S. vulgaris 
and §. pérsica; raised at Rouen by M. Varin, 
the director of the Botanic Garden there. 
and introduced into British gardens in 1795 ; 
flowering in May and June. It is of very 
vigorous growth, and a most abundant flow- 
erer ; and, in favourable soils and situations, 
it will attain the height of 10 ft. or 12 ft. 
This sort, and the preceding one, grafted 
standard high on the ash, or the common 
privet, would form very ornamental trees. 
Varieties. The following are mentioned in the 
Bon Jardinier for 1836 : — 
% S. r. 2 Lilas Royal Bon Jard. has the flowers more compact than the 
_ Belgic Lilas de Marly. 
% S.r. 3 saugeana Hort.; Lilas saugé, W’r.; differs from the Lilas Varin 
in having the flowers more red and more beautiful. There are 
plants in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges. It is probably identical 
with the variety mentioned in Gard. Mag., vii. p. 379., of which there 
are plants in the Grosvenor Nursery, King’s Road, cultivated by 
Mr. Dennis. S. coccinea and S, chinénsis ribra Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, 
appear to be identical with this variety, or very slightly different ; but 
the plants are too small to have yet produced flowers. 

App. i. Species of Syringa not yet introduced. 
S. Emidi Wall. Cat., No. 2831., Don’s Mill, 4, p. 51, 
Royle Illust., p. 267. t. 65. f.2.; and our fig. 1041.; has the 
leaves elliptic-oblong, glaucous beneath, attenuated at the 
base, and acuminated at theapex. Branches warted. Thyrse 
terminal and panicled. Capsules almost cylindrical. The 
bud-scales permanent at the base of the year’s shoots. A 
shrub, from 8 ft. to 10 ft. high, a native of Kamaon, towards 
the Himalayas, with purple flowers, which appears to bea 
very desirable plant. All the lilacs are so beautiful, both in 
foliage and flowers, and of such easy culture in any common 
garden soil, and even in climates of considerable severity, 
that the number of sorts, provided they are truly distinct, 
can hardly be too much increased. The objection which we 
have to this genus of shrubs is, their liability to throw up 
suckers, which, as we have more than once before observed, 
have a disorderly and ungardenesque appearance, and are 
only suitable for scenery in which the object is to imitate wild 
and neglected nature, For this reason, we have often wished 
that all the sorts of lilac cultivated in British gardens were 
worked on stocks of the common privet, on which, it is 
said, they will succeed perfectly. As the privet is quite 
hardy, and does not throw up suckers, this, we think, would 
be a real improvement, at least with reference to gardenesque 
beauty. 
S. villdsa Vahl Enum., 1. p. 38., Don’s Mill., 4. p. 51., is 
a native of China, on mountains about Pekin ; and, according 
. G. Don, it is, perhaps, the same as Ligtstrum sinénse 
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