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9. Leaves green : growth rather erect. F. suspensa Fortunei. 

 Leaves variegated with yellow. F. suspensa variegata. 



SYRINGA. Lilac. 



Deciduous shrubs with pale wood with small ducts, some- 

 what larger and more crowded in spring, and fine but distinct 

 medullary rays ; round twigs somewhat compressed or fluted 

 beneath the nodes or rather 4-angled ; roundish continuous pith ; 

 opposite crescent-shaped somewhat raised leaf-scars with a 

 transverse compound bundle-trace ; ovoid sessile buds, the ter- 

 minal usually wanting, -with several pairs of scales ; rather ovate 

 petioled leaves, entire or pinnately lobed or dissected ; small 

 salver- or funnel-shaped perfect gamopetalous flowers in ample 

 panicles ; and 2-valved oblong flattened few-seeded capsules. 



1. Leaves rough-margined, whitened beneath, buds large, 



with brown scales : twigs warty. S. villosa. 



Leaves scarcely rough-margined. 2. 



2. Leaves pale beneath : calyx white. S. amurensis. 

 Leaves green beneath. 3. 



3. Leaves cordate: buds round-ovoid, green. S. vulgaris. 

 Leaves acute at base : buds pointed, brown. 4. 



4. Leaves not lobed. S.. persica. 

 Leaves, in part, pinnately lobed. S. persica laciniata. 



FORESTIERA. Swamp Privet. 



Deciduous, shrubs or small trees with rather hard white 

 wood with minute diffused ducts and very fine medullary rays ; 

 more or less 4-sided often pungent twigs ; roundish homogene- 

 ous pith ; opposite somewhat raised small transversely elliptical 

 or lens-shaped leaf -scars with i rather large bundle-trace; no 

 stipule-scars ; superposed rounded sessile buds with 2 or 3 pairs 

 of exposed scales ; simple stalked rather low-toothed leaves often 

 clustered on spurs ; small imperfect yellowish flowers in nearly 

 sessile lateral clusters; and rather small drupes pointed at both 

 ends. (A delta). 



Twigs glabrous. F. acuminata. 



Twigs pubescent. F. ligustrina. 



