NAT. ORDER. 
OleinecB. 
SYRINGIA JOSIK^A. GERMAN LILAC. 
Class II. DiANDRiA. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Corolla^ funnel-shaped, or companulate, four-parted. 
Stamens, two, short. Fruit, capsular, two-celled. 
Spe. Char. Calyx, small, four-toothed. Stigma, bifid. Capsule, 
ovate, compressed, two-celled, two-valved, two-seeded. Leaves, 
ovate-lanceolate . 
This shrub rises erect from six to eight feet in height ; branches 
spreading-, very slightly warted, twigs purple ; leaves about three 
inches long and an inch and a quarter broad, elliptical-lanceolate, at- 
tenuated at both ends, shining and lurid above, white and veined be- 
low, wrinkled, glabrous on both sides, ciliated, short ; panicle terminal, 
erect ; calyx like the pedicels, peduncles, rachis, petiole, middle rib of 
the leaf and the branches pretty closely covered with short, glandular 
pubescence, four-toothed, teeth blunt and much shorter than the tube ; 
corolla half an inch long, clavate-funnel-shaped, deep lilac, glabrous, 
wrinkled ; tube slightly compressed ; limb erect, four-parted ; segments 
involute at their edges ; stamens adhering to about the middle of the 
tube ; anthers incumbent, oblong, yellow ; pistil much shorter than the 
tube ; stigmas large, cohering ; style filiform, glabrous ; germen green, 
glabrous, bilocular ; ovals four. 
This is a new species of lilac, and though less beautiful than the 
two in common cultivation, yet being equally hardy it cannot fail to 
be a most acceptable ornament to our gardens and shrubberies. The 
Vol. IV.— 161. 
