OLEACEAE 1043 
ers, and ee ipi ded E en dud fruits, is widely Volpi in d 
coastal regions. It of China and Ja apan, and is occasionally s 
Lane about ioe bens it is foem on the deus of North "Carolina and 
Loui 
6. AMAROLEA Small Shrubs or small trees. Leaves i e per- 
sistent: blades simple, entire. Flowers polygamous, in small axillary sealy- 
bracted panicles. alyx prominently 4-lobed. Corolla funnelform, w 
white or white: lobes broad, nearly as long as the tube. Stamens 2: filaments 
oval or globose, very bitter.—Only the following 2 spec ip or annone s 
DEVIL-Woops.—Differs from Osmanthus by the coralloid inflorescence, the sub- 
sessile flowers, the introrse anthers, and the capitate stigma. 
Drupe oval or ellipsoid, 1 cm. in diameter or less: stone acute at both ends. (See 
note. 1. A. MM 
Drupe globose, 2-2.5 cm. in diameter: stone acute at the base. 2. A. megacarpa. 
A. americana (L.) Small Tree becoming 15 m. tall or shrub, the bark 
pale leaf-blades Pelea elliptic, eria ae anime ote or lanceolate, 5-15 
m. long, entire, lust above: inflore 
branches and aw usually finely pubescent: 
rolla 3—4 mm. long: drupe 10-15 oe 
dark- DD ; pups ellipsoid, less than le 
meter. iC & 
a a. N. C.—The 
dark-brown bg wood is close-grained and 
hard.—Osmanthus floridana Chapm aid 
to differ from this sees in its yellowish- 
out & 
scarcely poised at the base, may represent 
another spec 
2, A. megacarpa Small. Shrub or small tree with a trunk-diameter usually less 
than 1 dm., the bark pale-green: leaf-blades elliptic or slightly sicui above 
the middle, m ostly 9—15 em. long, very aaa ar A "pe globose, 2—2.5 cm. long, 
dull-purple; ae globose-obovoid, more tha n diameter. Osmani 
a Small.]—Serub, S end ‘of the lake bes Son Fla. 
7. JASMINUM [Tourn.] L. Shrubs or woody vines. Leaf-blades 3-7- 
rdg or sometimes 1- ionis Flowers mostly in terminal compound cymes. 
alyx with 4-9 short or elongat Mops narrow, lobes. Corolla salverform, the 
limb hee lobed. Filaments ame the corolla-tube. Fruit REDDE 
About 100 speeies, natives of the Old an 1d. 
Leaves with 3 or more leaflets, usually 5-7-foliolate: anthers Slender, long-tipped. 
1. J. grandiflorum. 
Leaves reduced Rd a single leaflet, thus 1-foliolate: anthers stout, 
short-tip 
Calyx much less than half the length of the corolla-tube: 
corolla-lobes narrowly elliptic, acute or short-acuminate. 2. J. undulatum. 
Calyx about half the length of the ee or more: 
corolla-lobes oval, ovate, or orbicular, obtuse 3. J. Sambac. 
m L. Plant partly erect or diffusely reclining, glabrous or 
nearly so: dp mostly 5-7; blades ovate to oval, mucronate, except the 
