Ligustrum. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, - def: 
branches ; branchlets compressed.—Leaves opposite, with three 
_ pairs of smooth leaflets, which encrease somewhat in size, the ter- 
minal or odd one being the largest, ovate and equal; they vary in 
their figure from oblong to ovate-oblong, measusing from three to 
four inches, about one inch distant from each other, acute and more 
or less unequal at the base, tapering into a long narrow serrated 
acumen, perfectly smooth above, reticulated and nerved below.— 
Petioles slender, grooved, opposite, terminal -one an inch long. 
— Panicles terminal, showy and large, compound, smooth, loose, 
interspersed with. a few floral leaves, with opposite branches and 
branchlets and long slender racemes consisting of innumerable short 
peduncled or sessile fascicles of white scentless flowers on capillary ` 
| pedicels.—Calyr truncated, four-toothed.— Petals very long, linear- 
clavaie.— Filaments capillary, almost as long as the corolla; anthers 
linear, erect.— Rudiment of the female organs none.— Capsule line- 
ar, about an inch long, one-celled ;; wing scarcely two lines broad, 
veined and marked with elevated dots, slightly retuse at the apex. 
Seed solitary, possessing a bitterish somewhat. aromatic taste; in 
other respects like Fr. excelsior, Gert. Carp. i. 222. tab. 49. 
- Obs. I have not seen the female flowers of this ornamental tree 
hich unquestionably comes near to F. Ornus (the Manna or 
 Flowering Ash), differing chiefly in having taper-pointed, Eel 
enin leaves.—N. Ww. 
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 LIGUSTRUM. 
Corol four.cleft. Berry superior of two cells with two seeds i in 
each cell. 
1. L. nepalense. Wall. | se 
— Leaves ovate, or ovate-oblong, acuminate, villous bilow. Pani. 
cle terminal, villous, consisting of sub-erect crowded racemes. © 
A native of the mountains of Nepala where it is called Goom- 
gacha and grows to be a consìderable tree, producing profuse clus- 
ters of White, sweet smelling flowers from un to oup berr 
ripen in four to six months, | 
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