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full green, on their upper furface, and of a folid 
confidence. The fruit or berries are nearly oval, 
of the fize of a fparrow’s egg, of a beautiful blu- 
ifh purple, and covered with a nebula or gloom. 
PHILADELPHUS. 
SYR INGA, or MOCK-ORANGE. 
Clafs 12. Order i. Icofandria Monogynia. 
THE Empaleritent is one leaved, four parted, fliarp pointed, 
A and permanent. 
The Corolla has four petals, roundifh, plane, large arid fpread- 
ing. 
The Filaments are twenty, awl-lhaped and the length of the 
calyx. The Anthem are ere& and four furrowed. 
The Germen is beneath. The Style is thread form and four- 
parted. The Stigmas are Ample. 
The Seed-veJJel is a capfule, oval, iharp-pointed, part furround- 
ed by the calyx, with four cells, and four valves. 
The Seeds are numerous, oblong and fmali. 
We have , with us , but one Species, viz. 
Philadelphia inodorus. Carolinian Scent - 
lej's Syringa. 
This is faid to grow naturally in Carolina; rifing 
with a fhrubby italic to the height of twelve or fifteen 
feet, fending out oppofite branches, furnifhed with 
fmooth, entire leaves, fhaped like thofe of the Pear 
tree, but Handing oppofite upon pretty long foot- 
flalks. The flowers are pretty large and have large 
empalements of four acute-pointed leaves, and four 
white, oval, fpreading petals, and a great number 
of ftamina with yellow fummits. This is impatient 
of much cold. 
PINUS. 
