SYHINGA 



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tapering at the base; dark dull green above, pale, or almost white beneath. 

 Panicles mostly columnar, 3 to 6 ins. long, one or three of which terminate 

 the young shoots. Flowers not pleasantly scented, expanding in June. 

 Corolla in. long, 

 scarcely as much 

 wide across the lobes, 

 white or slightly 

 purple tinted. Calyx 

 bell - shaped, very 

 shallowly lobed. 

 Seed - vessels f in. 

 long, each half end- 

 ing in a slender, al- 

 most tail-like point. 



Native of the 

 Himalaya ; long 

 known in gardens, 

 but not common. It 

 is useful in flowering 

 rather late. Closely 

 allied to villosa, it is 

 scarcely as good a 

 shrub, and differs 

 in its leaves being 

 whiter beneath and 

 downy only on the 

 midrib, or smooth. 

 The seed-vessel also 

 differs inbeingrather 

 longer and in having 

 the more attenuated 

 apices- mentioned 

 above. S. Emodi 

 never seems to havj 

 the magnificent in- 

 florescences char- 

 acteristic of vigorous 

 specimens of S. vil- 

 losa nor are the 

 flowers ever so richly SYRINOA EMODI. 



coloured. 



Var. VARIEGATA has leaves broadly, irregularly, and rather effectively 

 margined with yellow. 



S. JAPONICA, Decaisne. 



(Ligustrina amurensis var. japonica, Maximowicz.) 



A deciduous tree up to 30 ft. high, of erect habit, often a shrub; young 

 shoots not downy, but marked with small, round, pale dots. Leaves ovate 

 with a long tapering point, rounded or broadly wedge-shaped at the base; 

 3 to 8 ins. long, about half as wide; and either smooth or slightly downy 

 beneath, smooth above; stalk to I in. long. Flowers white, not fragrant, 

 produced at the end of the branch, usually in a pair of broad pyramidal 

 panicles, 8 to 12 ins. long, 6 to 8 ins. through. Corolla ^ in. across, the 

 short tube almost hidden in the calyx, which is bell-shaped and scarcely 

 lobed. Seed-vessel J in. long, scimitar-shaped, smooth, blunt at the end. 



