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( 3089 ) 



Olea undulata. Wavy-leaved fragrant 

 Cape Olive. 



Class and Order. 



DlANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Oleine,e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 4-dentatus. Cor. 4-fida (raro nulla). Stylus 2- 

 fidus. Drupa baccata, putamine osseo, 1-sperma. Spreng. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Olea * undulata ; foliis oblongis utrinque acuminatis un- 

 dulatis subtus pallidioribus, paniculis terminalibus re- 

 petition trichotomis, ramis verrucosis. 



Olea undulata. Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. v. I. p. 1. t. 2. 

 Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. I. p. 34. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 

 379. 



Olea laurifolia. Lam. III. v. I. p. 29. 



Olea capensis. (|3.) Ait. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. I. p. 21. 

 Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. v. \.p. 70. 



Descr. With us, cultivated in the greenhouse, this rises 

 with a tree-like stem, to the height of eight or nine feet, 

 with many spreading branches, which are rough, with scat- 

 tered warts; the young shoots green, and all of them gla- 

 brous. Leaves opposite, petiolate, three or four inches 

 lo ng, coriaceous, oblong, attenuated at each extremity, 

 wavy, dark green above, paler beneath, quite glabrous. 

 Petioles from half to three-fourths of an inch long, rounded, 

 flattish above. Panicles terminal, somewhat thyrsoid, re- 

 peatedly 



. * The £*«»«, of the Greeks, from tow, smooth, in allusion to the nature of 

 the oil. 



