OLEACEAJS 120 



Leaves quite entire. F. Fortunei. 



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



FOBSYTHIA. Golden Bell. 



Deciduous shrubs with moderately slender elongated some- 

 times scrambling or rooting branches, often green until aut- 

 umn; with roundish excavated or chambered pale pith; oppo- 

 site or occasionally whorled somewhat spreading narrowly 

 ovoid buds, superposed and generally branching collaterally so 

 as to i'orm axillary clusters in autumn, with several exposed 

 scales; rather raised small crescent-shaped leaf-scars with 1 

 bundle-trace; lanceolate to ovate slightly fleshy mostly serrate 

 leaves, simple or in the broader forms digitately 3-lobed or 3- 

 foliolate; showy yellow short-tubed perfect gamopetalous 

 flowers in axillary clusters; and small 2-celled capsules with 

 winged seeds. 



1. Leaves elongated: twigs green: 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 t>r 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 chambered 



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. 



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

 Leaves variegated with yellow. F. suspensa variegata. 



