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SYRINGA 



Native of Japan ; introduced to the Arnold Arboretum in 1876 and thence 

 to Kew in 1886. Professor Sargent, who saw it wild on the hills of central 

 Yezo, says that there it is an ungainly, straggling tree, 25 to 30 ft. high, with 

 a trunk rarely 12 to 18 ins. thick. I saw it flowering in June, 1910, in the 

 Arnold Arboretum and other places near Boston, Mass., and it was the most 

 striking tree then in flower, some being specimens over 30 ft. high, of shapely, 

 rather columnar habit, and laden with blossom. In Britain it does not 

 succeed so well and remains more a shrub than a tree, but even here it is 

 very attractive at the end of June. 



S. JOSIKyEA, Jacquin. JOSIKA LlLAC. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 3278.) 



Belonging to the same group of lilacs as S. villosa and S. Emodi, this is 

 inferior in many respects to both. Its flowers, however, are of a deeper lilac 

 than either. The leaves are whitish beneath, as in S. Emodi, and of the 

 same shape, 2 to 5 ins. long. Panicle slender, 4 to 8 ins. long, 2 to 4 ins. 

 wide. Corolla \ in. long, ^ in. or less across the lobes. Seed-vessel in. 

 long, bluntish at the end. Blossoms in early June. 



This lilac was first noticed 

 in Hungary about 1830, having 

 been sent by the Baroness von 

 Josika to Jacquin the botanist 

 at Vienna, who named it in 

 compliment to her. Her speci- 

 mens came from Siebenburgen 

 in E. Hungary, which has since 

 been usually regarded as the 

 native home of this lilac. 

 This, of -course, is not im- 

 probable, and the plant has 

 since been found apparently 

 wild there. But some author- 

 ities consider it more likely 

 to be of N. Chinese origin 

 possibly a deeper coloured 

 variety of villosa with smooth 

 leaves. It is distinguished 

 from S. villosa in flower by 

 the much denser arrangement 

 of the flowers in whorls. 



S. JULIANA, 

 C. K. Schneider. 

 (Bot. Mag., t, 8423.) 



Adeciduous spreading shrub 

 of stiff, bushy habit, perhaps 

 4 to 6 ft. high ; young shoots 

 slender, very downy, the down 

 persisting for two years. 



Leaves I to 2 ins. long, \ to I iii. wide; oval (sometimes inclined to ovate or 

 obovate), tapered at the base, finely pointed; dull dark green, with appressed 

 hairs above; grey and very hairy beneath; stalk \ to in. long, hairy. 



SYRINGA JULIANA. 



