C 1552 ] 



Olea fragrans. Sweet-scented Olive* 



Oafs and Order, 



DlANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Gw.-4-fida: laciniis fubovatis. Drupa monofperma. 



Specific OoaraBer and Synonyms. 



J^f ra S rans : f°l» s lanceolatis ferratis, pedunculis latcrali- 

 bus aggregatis unifloris. fhunb. Japon. p. 8. /. 2. WilUU 

 Sp. PL 1. p. 46. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. i.p.22. Perfoon Synopf. 



A l - P- 9- Fabl Enum. 1. ^.43. 



USMYNTHUS fragrans. Lour. Cochinch. edit. UJyffip.p. 29. 



UUAI-FA. OJbeck, It. 250. edit. Aug. 2. 14. 



MOKKSEI. K<empf. Am*n. 5. 844. 



According to Tiiunberg, the Olea fragrans grows in 

 Japan to a very large tree. Loureiro defcribes it as a fhrub 

 ? ut feven feet high, with afcendant, fometimes climbing, 

 Whes. ° 6 



^ he latter author confiders it as a diftinct genus from the 



^opean Olive, on account of its divided ftyle and lateral 



-others ; that is, the lobes of each anther are feparated by the 



r oad filament paffing between them, which he confiders as two 



! Kt,n ^ one-celled ambers upon the fame filament. It is not 



^probable that Loureiro is right, in making it_ generically 



merent from the Olive; but no European Botanift has as yet 



tT a- C ^ run ' w " nout which there is no deciding with certainty 



* Peeling the genus. It is afTerted that this tree is always 



erile, even in China; fo that it is to be feared that it will be 



°ng before we mail arrive at that certainty which Loureiro 



°ndly hoped for, when he faw young trees fent off for this 



°untry, whilft he was flaying at Canton. The divifion of the 



ftyle, 



