160 OLEACEAE. 



alternate round-ovoid solitary sessile buds usually with 2 or 3 

 pairs of exposed scales ; simple glossy moderately small short- 

 stalked leaves ; small whitish perfect flowers clustered at the 

 ends of the branches ; and rather small winged hard fruits. 

 Leaves quite entire. F. Fortunei. 



Leaves rough-margined or minutely toothed. F. phillyraeoides. 



FORSYTHIA. Golden Bell. 



Deciduous shrubs with moderately slender elongated some- 

 times scrambling or rooting branches, often green until autumn ; 

 with roundish excavated or chambered pale pith ; opposite or 

 occasionally whorled somewhat spreading narrowly ovoid buds, 

 superposed and generally branching collaterally so as to form, 

 axillary clusters in autumn, with several exposed scales ; rather 

 raised small crescent-shaped leaf-scars with i bundle-trace ; lan- 

 ceolate to ovate slightly fleshy mostly serrate leaves, simple or 

 in the broader forms digitately 3-lobed or 3-foliolate ; showy yel- 

 low short-tubed perfect gamopetalous flowers in axillary clus- 

 ters ; and small 2-celled capsules with winged seeds. 



1. Leaves elongated : pith chambered. 2. 



Leaves broad, often 3-lobed or 3-foliolate, toothed. 4. 



2. Leaves neither lobed nor divided, entire below. 3. 



Leaves in part lobed or divided, on shoots. X F. intermedia. 



3. Leaves green. F. viridissima. 

 Leaves variegated with white. F. viridissima variegata. 



4. Essentially glabrous. 5. 



Leaves downy, at least beneath. F. suspensa pubescens. 



5. Bushy or spreading. 6. 



Scrambling, or spreading and drooping. F. suspensa. 



6. Shoots rather stout and upright. 7. 



Shoots slender, rooting at the end. F. suspensa Sieboldii. 



7. Leaves rarely of 3 leaflets : pith for a time cham- 



bered near the nodes. X F. intermedia. 



Leaves frequently 3-foliolate : pith entirely excavated 

 except at the nodes. 8. 



8. Shoots and foliage green. 9. 



Shoots and young foliage purplish. F. suspensa atrocaulis. 



