PLATE XLIV. 



1. PHILADELPHIA CORONARIUS. 



SYRlNGA, OR MOCK ORANGE. 



THIS genus contains plants of the hardy deciduous flowering 

 shrubby kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Icosandria Monogynia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Hesperidea. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a one-leafed perianthium, 

 four or five-parted, acuminate, permanent : the corolla has four or 

 five roundish petals, flat, large, spreading: the stamina have twenty 

 or twenty -five awl-shaped filaments, the length of the calyx: anthers 

 erect, four-grooved: the pistillum is an inferior germ: style filiform, 

 four or five-parted: stigmas simple: the pericarpium is an ovate 

 capsule, acuminate at both ends, naked at the top by the calyx 

 being barked, four or five-celled: partitions contrary: the seeds 

 numerous, oblong, small, decumbent, arilled, fastened to the thick- 

 ened edge of the partitions: arils club-shaped, acuminate, tooth- 

 leted at the base. 



The species is P. coronarius, Common Syringa or Mock Orange. 



It is a shrub that sends up a great number of slender stalks from 

 the root, seven or eight feet in height, having a gray bark, and put- 

 ting forth several short branches from their sides: the leaves ovate 

 or ovate-lanceolate; those upon the young shoots three inches and a 

 half long, and two broad in the middle, terminating in acute points, 

 and having several indentures on their edges; they are rough and of 

 a deep green on their upper side, and pale on their under; stand 

 opposite upon ver} r short footstalks, and have the taste of fresh 

 cucumbers : the flowers come out from the side, and at the end of 

 the branches, in loose bunches, each on a short pedicel; they are 



