460 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Seeds subulate, heaped at the angles of the cells ; each furnished with a loose 
membranous aril, Albumen fleshy. Differs from i/yrtacee in the arillate 
albuminous seed, and in the toothed dotless leaves. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple, opposite, exstipulate, deciduous ; toothed, serrated, or 
sometimes entire. Flowers large, white, showy.—Shrubs, natives of Europe, 
Asia, and America. Three genera are hardy in British gardens, which are 
thus contradistinguished :— 
Purvape’Lpnus. Calyx 4—5-parted. Petals 4—5. Stamens 20—40. Styles 
4—5, Capsule 4—5-celled. 
Devu'rzra, Calyx 5—6-cleft, Petals 5—6. Stamens 10—12. Filaments 
tricuspidate. Styles 3—4, Capsule 3—4-celled. 
Decuma‘r1a. Calyx 7—10-toothed. Petals 7—10. Stamens 21—30. Style 
1. Capsule 7—10-celled. 
Genus I. 
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PHILADE’LPHUS Z. Tue Puimavetpruus, or Mock ORANGE. 
Lin. Syst. Icosandria Monogynia. 
Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 614. ; Dec. Prod., 3. p. 205.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 807. 
Synonymes. Syringa Tourn. Inst, t. 389., not of Lin.; Philadelphus, Fr.; Pfeifenstrauch (Pipe 
Shrub), Ger. ; Filadelpho, Ital. ; Pipe Privet, Gerard; the Syringa of the gardens, 
Derivation. Philadélphus is a name used by Athenzus for a tree which cannot now be identified : 
Bauhin applied itto this genus. Instead of the common trivial name Syringa, applied to this 
genus in gardens, as its English name, we have substituted its generic name, Philadelphus ; 
Syringa being the generic name of the lilac. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tube obovate, turbinate ; limb 4—5-parted. Petals 4—5. 
Stamens 20—40, free, shorter than the petals. Styles 4—5, sometimes 
connected, and sometimes more or less distinct. Stigmas 4—5, oblong or 
linear, usually distinct, rarely joined. Capsule 4—5-celled, many-seeded. 
Seeds scobiform, enclosed in a membranous arillus, which is fringed at one 
end. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple, opposite, exstipulate, deciduous ; oval, acuminate, serrated 
or entire. Flowers white, usually sweet-scented, disposed in corymbose 
cymes, or somewhat panicled on the extremities of the lateral shoots, rarely 
axillary and bracteate. 
Deciduous shrubs, natives of Europe, North America, and Asia; culti- 
vated for their very showy white flowers; most of which have a strong scent, 
resembling, at a distance, that of orange flowers, but, when near, disagreeably 
powerful. The species are in a state of utter confusion: there are probably 
only three: one a native of the South of Europe, or possibly of some other 
country ; one of North America; and one, P. tomentdsus, of Nepal. All 
the kinds are of the easiest culture in any tolerably dry soil; and they are all 
propagated by layers, or by suckers or cuttings. 
§ i. Stems stiff and straight. Flowers in Racemes. 
1. P. corona‘rius L. The garland Philadelphus, or Mock Orange, 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 671.; Schrad. Diss. ; Dec. Prod., 3. p. 205. ; Don’s Mill, 2. p. 807. 
Synongines: Syvinga suaveolens Manck Meth. 678.; Wohlriechender, Pfeifenstrauch, Ger. ; Fior 
angiolo, Zta. 
Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 391.; Schkuhr Handb., t.121. ; Lam. IIL, t.420.; and our fig, 822. 
Spec. Char, §c. Leaves ovate, acuminate, serrately denticulate, 3-nerved, 
rather glabrous, but hairy upon the veins beneath; inflorescence racemose. 
Flowers sweet-scented. Lobes of the calyx acuminate. Styles distinct 
