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Inflorescentia in apice rami hornotini terminalis, ita flores nunquam 

 praecoces. 



Sp. 20). Syringa hirsuta, (Schneider) Nakai. 



S. villosa, (non Vahl.) Kom. Fl. Mansh. III. p. 253 saltern pro 

 parte. 



S. villosa v. hirsuta, Schneider in Fedde Rep. IX (1910) p. 81 et 

 Illns. Handb. Laubholzk. II. p. 780. 



An allied species of S. Brctschneideri, from which the present one is 

 distinguishable as follows. 



S. Bretschneideri 



Rami hornotini lenticellis des- 

 tituti v. sparsissitni. 



Inflorescentia erecta. 



Flores in primo mensis Juni pa- 

 tent, roseo-lilacini v. roseo-violacci. 



S. hirsuta 



Rami hornotini lenticellis crcbris 

 punctati. 



Inflorescentia dependens. 



Flores in mensis Julio- Augusto 

 patent, intense purpurei v. violacei. 



Schneider has reduced S. Bretschneideri to S. villosa, but according 

 to N. E. Brown the latter has more smaller and rounder leaves, less 

 copious panicles and smaller flowers. He also tried to distingnish the 

 present one from Syringa villosa as its variety by the leaves which are 

 hairly beneath and the hairy pedicells as well as truncate calyx, but 

 we have a Chinese specimen which is hairy in the undersurface of the 

 leaves and Brown's descriptions for S. Bretschneideri agree with it 

 (Folia subtus tenuiter piloso-pubescentia). I have often met with in 

 the field the two hairy forms, one of them having truncate calyx and 

 the other dentate. The dependent inflorescence which gives a graceful 

 appearance to this is anyway the most distinct characteristic. 



Frutex 3—4 metralis altus, sed truncus apice arcuato-dependens et 

 usque 4-5 metralis attingit. Cortex flavo-cinereus lenticellis punctu- 

 latus, hornotinus glaber interdum minutissime ciliolatus purpuracente- 

 cinereus lenticellis crebri punctatus. Folia oblonga v. oblongo-elliptica 

 v. obovata v. ovato-oblonga usque 14 cm. longa, petiolis glabris, supra 

 glabra viridia, infra pallida et saltern partim pilosa v. velutina, margine 

 minutissime ciliolata, utrinque acuta v. acuminata. Panicula apice 

 rami hornotini terminalis supra medium patentim hirsuta. Flores 

 glomeratim congesti grave odorati. Pedicelli 0-3 mm. longi cum calyce 

 obovato patentim hirsuti. Calyx truncatus v. 4-dentatus. Corolla 

 intense purpurea v. violacea, tubo 8-10 mm. longo, lobis patentibus 

 apice unguiculato-inflexis. Stamina inserta. 



