SYRINGA JOSIK AVA. 
LADY JOSIKA’S LILAC. 
EXOGENE, DICOTYLEDONES. 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant belongs 
NATURAL ORDER, OLEACEZ. 
cram, a spr “tin DIANDRIA, 
ie MONOGYNIA, 
Deciwpérin: this Plast’ a OF LINNEUS. 
Syrinca. Liyvevs. Caryx breve 4-dentatus. Corona sub- 
um. Capsvia 
longitudinaliter secedente utrinque in valvula persistente. Semin oblonga 
deplana circum alata. Rzrcxeneacr. Flora Germanica Excursoria, Vol. I, 
p. 432. 
SPECIES. SyrgineaJosma@a. Jacauvin, rizivs. Forts ovali-acuminatis 
discoloribus, supra lucidis, subtus albidis, rugosis utrinque glabris, ciliatis. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Syrinea. Catyx short, four-toothed. 
Corotta somewhat salver-shaped, the limb consisting of four 
concave pieces. Stiama two-cleft. CAPSULE ovate-comy 
acuminate, two-celled, splitting by a loculicidal dehiscence i 
valves, the dissepiment splitting down the middle, and one_ 
adhering to each valve. SxEps oblong, depressed in the ¢ 
rounded with a wing. . 
_DEscripTION OF THE SPECIES, Syrinca Josik@a, 
shrub, branches spreading, very slightly warted, twigs purple. 
_ Leaves (about three inches long, one and a quarter inches broad) 
elliptico-lanceolate, attenuated at both extremities, shining and lucid 
above, white and veined below, wrinkled, glabrous on both sides, cili- 
ated. PAaNicLeE ast, ‘erect. Catyx, as well as the pedicels, pedun- 
cles, rachis, petio 7 hes, closely covered 
with short glandu ubescence ; four-toothed, teeth blunt, and much 
shorter than the tube. Coroxza half an inch long, clavate, funnel- 
shaped, deep blue, glabrous, wrinkled, tube slightly compressed ; limb 
erect, four-parted, segments involute at their edges. Stamens ad- 
An erect 
REFERENCE TO THE DissEcTIONs. 
1, The corolla opened to show the attachment of the anthers. 2, The germen and style. Each 
part magnified. 
