FLORA OF TROPICAL AFRICA. 
OrveR LXXXII. OLEACEA. (By J. G. Baker.) 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx inferior, small, cam- 
panulate, usually 4-toothed. Corolla gamopetalous, hypocrateriform, 
funnel-shaped or campanulate; lobes usually 4. Stamens usually 2, 
epipetalous; filaments short ; anthers ovate-oblong, rarely linear, dorsi- 
fixed, dehiscing longitudinally. Disk 0. Ovary superior, 2-celled ; 
style usually short; stigma usually capitate, often finally shortly 
2-lobed ; ovules usually 2 in a cell, attached by the base to the side or 
apex of the dissepiment, anatropous or amphitropous. Fruit capsular 
or indehiscent. Seeds 2—4, or by abortion solitary, erect or pendulous, 
albuminous or exalbuminous; testa usually thin; embryo straight, 
fleshy when the albumen is absent.—Erect or scandent unarmed shrubs 
or trees. Leaves usually opposite, simple or imparipinnate, entire or 
dentat exstipulate. Inflorescence simple or compound, centripetal or 
centrifugal. 
Species about 300, widely spread in the tropical and subtemperate regions of 
both hemispheres. 
Corolla-tube cylindrical ; lobes imbricate. 
Fruit baccate . . : . . 1, JasmInuM. 
Fruit hard, 2- valved F . . 2, SCHREBERA. 
Corolla-tube short ; lobes induplicate-valvate i . 38. Ouma. 
Petals nearly or quite free, very narrow’. : . 4, LINOCIERA. 
1. JASMINUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 674, 
Calyx-tube campanulate.; lobes 4, long or short. Corolla hypocrateri- 
form ; tube cylindrical ; limb with 4-10 imbricate lobes. Stamens 2, 
inserted just below the throat of the corolla- tube ; filaments short. 
Ovary 2-celled ; style variable in length in the same species ; stigma 
capitate or 2-lobed; ovules usually 2 in each cell, attached near 
the base of the dissepiment. Berry didymous or by abortion simple. 
Seeds solitary, erect; testa double; albumen 0; cotyledons plano- 
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