3 6 9 
OLE A EUROPE 
EUROPEAN OLIVE. 
ST NO NT MA. Oliva. Pbarm. Lond. fcf Edinb. 
Ol 
ea. 
£W. 
PempL £.821. Olea fativa. Baub. Pin. p. ^2. Gerard. Emac. 
p. 1392. P^ri. Thcat.p. 1436. Rail H'ift. p. 1541. Conf. Bu 
Hamel, Traite desArlres, T. 2. p. 54. ST##. 14. if^//. Hebraorim^ 
&.MX, Gracorum. 
Varietates funt 
5 
a. 
Common) foliis lanceolatis planis fubtus 
(Long-kavd) foliis lineari-Ianceolatis planis fubtus argenteis. 
7 (Broad-kavd) foliis oblongis planis fubtus incanis. 
a ( L 
c 
d) foliis lanceolatis fubtus ferr 
ineis. 
(Twifted-leavd) foliis oblongis oblique flexis fubtus pallidis 
(Box-leavd) foliis oblongo-ovalibus, ramis patentibus divari 
catis 
Aiion. Hort. Kew 
Clafs Diandria. Ord* Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 20. 
EJf. Gen. Cb. Cor. 4-fida : laciniis fubovatis. 
Drupa monofperma 
Sp. Cb. O. foliis lanceolatis integerrimis, racemis axillaribus 
coar&atis. Hort, Kew. 
fends 
TH I S tree ufually rifes about twenty feet in height, ai 
off numerous long branches, covered with bark of a greyifh 
the leaves are firm, narrow, lance-fhaped, entire, on the upper fide 
of a bright green, on the under whitifh, and ftand in pairs upon 
white, numerous, and pro- 
the calyx is tubular 
fhort footftalks : the flowers are fm 
ceed in clufters near the footftalks of the 
and divided at the brim into four fmall erecl: deciduous fegmentsTthe 
corolla is a funnel-fhaped petal, confiding of a fhort tube, about the 
length of the calyx, and divided at the border into four femiovate 
fegments 
with erecl: antherse 
ftyle, 
the filaments are two, tapering, oppofite, and crowned 
the germen is round, and fupports a fimple fhort 
furnifhed with a fligma, which is cleft 
No 
two, and each di\ 
fion 
