hering to about the middle of the tube. ANTHERS incumbent, oblong, 
yellow. Pistm much shorter than the tube. Sriemata large, co- 
hering. Stvte filiform, saps Ovary green, glabrous, two-celled. 
Ovutes 4. 
PoputaR anp GeocrapHicaL Notice. This recent addition to 
our shrubberies has the recommendation of flowering later than the 
old species, to which it bears considerable resemblance. Itisa smaller 
shrub, the flowers of a much deeper blue, and with only a faint odour. 
The tube is longer than in the common species. The leaves greatly 
resemble those of the Populus balsamifera, or sweet-scented poplar. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CULTURE. It isa native of Tran- 
sylvania, growing in stony places on the territory of the Countess 
Rosalie Josika, in the county of Clausenburg, in Siebenbirgen : it was 
first made known to botanists at the meeting of naturalists at Ham- 
burg, on the 20th of September, 1830, by the younger Jacquin. A 
plant of it was forwarded by the Messrs. Booth of Flotbeck, near 
Hamburg, to the Edinburgh Botanic Garden in October, 1832, where 
it flowered the following year. Our drawing was taken from a small 
specimen which flowered in the greenhouse of J. T. Jarrett, Esq. of 
_ Camerton House, in June last, and which it is probable was not so 
deep in colour as if it had been grown in the open air, nor the panicles 
of flowers quite so dense. It is quite hardy, requiring no peculiarity 
of management. 
DERIVATION OF THE NAMES. 
Syrinca. An Arcadian nymph was fabled to have been changed into a reed 
or pipe, Zupry, syrivx. The name has been applied to this genus, from the 
use the Turks make of its ‘ebalar Gi branches. Josix#a, in honour of the Countess 
Josika, on whose property it was first observed. 
Sone. 
Syrinca Jostxaa. Jac 399, 
acquin erp Zeitung, 1831, t. 67, p- 
Reichenbach, Plantz Critiew, viii, i slats 104 Reichenbach, Flora Germanica 
Excursoria, Vol. I, p. 432, Botanical M ar 
: ear pl. 3278, Graham in 
son's Edinburgh Journal, Vol. XV, p. 385. Botanical Register, pl. 1733. 
