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PHILADELPHUS hirsutus.
Hairy Syringa.
Linnean Class and Order. IC O S A N D R IA M O N O G Y N IA .
Natural Order. P h i l a d e lp h e æ . Calyx turbinatus, limbo 4-fido
(rarò 5-fido), persistens. P e ta la 4 (rarò 5), calycinis laciniis alterna, in
sestivatione convoluto-imbricata. Stamina 20-40, duplici serie disposita,
fauci calycinæ inserta. S ty li 4, rarò 5 inferné sæpiùs coaliti. Stigmata
longa, divaricata, obtusa, latere interiore puberula, nunc spiraliter torta.
Capsula semi-infera, sublignosa, 4 (rarò 5)-locularis, polysperma, apice
quadrifariàm loculicido-dehiscens. Semina scobiformia, subulata, lævia,
angulis placentae tetragonæ cumulatim adnata, arillo laxo membranaceo,
ad umbilicum foramine fimbrià laceratà aperto, nucleo seminis triplò longiore
instructa : testa tenuissima, membranacea, nucleum arctè vestiens:
albumen ovoideum, carnosum, album. Embryo inversus, lacteus, ferè albu-
minis longitudine : cotyledones ovales, obtusæ, planiusculæ : radícula Xere-
tiuscula, cotyledonibus plurimùm longior, supera, recta, obtusa.— Frútices
(Europae, Asiæ, et Americæ temperatis communes) erecti, decidui. Eolia
apposita, nervosa, dentata, impunetata. Elores opposite axillares, terminales,
subraccmosi, albi. D . Don’s observations on Philadelpheæ and Gra-
nateæ, in the Edinburgh N ew Philosophical Journal, 1826, p. 133.
P H I L A D E L P H U S . Calyx 4-5-fidus. P etala 4-5. Filamenta Simplicia.
S ty li 4-5, sæpè coaliti. Capsula 4-5-locularis, polysperma. Semina
arillata.
P . hirsntis, foliis ovatis acutis subquinque-nerviis acutè denticulatis subtùs
canescenti-villosis reticulato-venosis, floribus terminalibus subternis,
stylis stigmatibusque coalitis.
Philadelphus hirsutus. N u tta ll gen. amer-. 1. p . 301. Decand. prod. 3.
p . 206.
A handsome little shrub, with numerous short slender
branches; the plants that we have seen, about 4 or 5 feet
high; branches roughish and hairy when young. Leaves on
short footstalks, ovate, or ovate-oblong, acute, sometimes
shortly acuminate, more or less furnished with short sharp
teeth, triply nerved with two lateral branches, more or less
distinct, and reticulately veined, thickly clothed underneath
with a shaggy hoary pubescence ; the upper side hairy
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