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Cuass I—DIANDRIA. 
Order I—Monoaynta. 
A. Corolla inferior. ae 
+ Fruit a drupe or nut. 
8. OLEA. L. (Olive.) 
Calix small, 4-toothed; tube of the corolla 
short, border 4-cleft, lamina more or tess ovate. 
Lobes of the stigma emarginate. Drupe 2- 
seeded; one of the seeds usually abortive.t 
Leaves evergreen, very rarely alternate; flowers race- 
Mose or paniculate, axillary or terminal, in 0. ge Se? the 
flowers simply aggregate. Rs a ae ae 
Species. 1. O. Americana. lowers dioicous. Grows : 
near the sea-coast. Fruit acerb! ee es 
9, CHIONANTHUS. L. APsinge-taee) : 
Calix 4-parted. Corolla deeply 4-parted, la- 
mina long and linear. .4nthers nearly sessile 
on the tube. Drupe i-seeded, Nut striated. 
Small trees with simple leaves, flowers resembling — 
those of the Ornus, panicled, or more rarely corymbose; 
panicles sometimes bracteate, axillary and terminal, tri- 
fid, or trichotomous, sometimes triandrous. Fruit and 
flowers pendulous. 
Spectres. 1. C. Virginica: Most abundant near the sea- 
coast, where it arrives at aconsiderable magnitude. Neas 
Port Elizabeth, New-Jersey, my friend, Z.Collins, esq. saw 
a tree of the Chionanthus near 30 feet high. Persoon ve= — 
> mais thet the corolla of this species varies from 4, 3, to 
a 6 cleft, and with 4 stamens! — 
ig saeiseeBic, made cells often obliterated. Gans : 
