. 1042 OLEACEAE 
aL. Tree up to 10 m. tall WE : tall shrub with a taproot: leaf- 
blades oval to to eee varying to obovate, mostly 8-18 cm. long, becoming thick- 
embranous, pel cred panicles 
with Sun: bra ieh a 2—4 
em. long: anthers fully 2 mm. po Rs Mrs upe 
ellipsoid.—Swampy woods, rocky bluffs, and 
dp T often in vM poe various irs 
J. 
a. Tex 
ight -brown ha d is Keen and 
ard. 
C. pygmaea Small. Shrub with under- 
ms m. 
a 
, becoming ceous, short- 
petioled: panicles wit ry small 
iduous bracts: anthers less th 2. mm. 
long: drupe oval ——Serub, inland sandhills, S end of lake region, Fla. 
5. LIGUSTRUM [Tourn.] L. Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite: blades 
simple, entire. Flowers perfect, in erect panicles. Calyx shallowly 4-lobed 
or nearly truncate. Corolla white or greenish, fonnelform: lobes broad, about 
as long as the tube or much shorter. Stam filaments adnate to the 
corolla-tube. ee 2-lobed. Drupe mostly PETAN a 35 species, 
natives of the Old World. 
Corolla-lobes as long as the tube or nearly so: anthers oval. 1. L. vulgare. 
Corolla-lobes much shorter than the tube: anthers linear. 2. L. ovalifolium. 
L. vulgar Shrub becoming 3 m. tall: leaves tardily deciduous; blades 
TA elliptic: due lanceolate, or individually broadest above the middle, 
1-5 em. long, or rare rely larger, obtuse or 
acutish, slender-petioled: panicles many- 
inute, 
mln lobes p ovate: anthers 
less ma 2 mm. long: drupes di 6—8 
in diameter, black.—(PRIVET. PRIM.) 
provinces, N. C. to Tex., Ont. and Me. 
of O. W., and cult.—Spr.—sum 
2. L. ovalifolium Hassk.  Shrub or Ves 
tree: leaves dd tardily apace or ever 
green; blades ovate, elliptic or oval, 3-7 c 
long, mostly ped d "p, ‘stout: ‘petioled: 
bra 
panicle ma 0 
cous: calyx- Tobes prre cordis 73 m m. long: lobes p did ovate: anthers 
over 2 mm. long: drupes mostly oval to ovoid, 6-8 mm. long, nearly pom 
(CALIFORNIA PRIVET.) —Cult. Seine waste- laces, and fence-rows, Coas 
Plain, Fla. to Tex. Nat. o of Japan, and cult.—Sum 
Ligustrum sinense Lour. A shrub differing from L. vulgare in r densely 
pubescent young Dundee and inflorescence, and with the midrib o e leaves 
pubescent beneath ~ the stamens much longer than the UE occurs 
as an escape in 
gustrum | um Ai t a shrub or small tree, with large, ovate or ov 
ebd leaf- blades often 6-12 em. long, large erect panicles of sessile ae 
