OLEACEAE. 



287 



Ovary 1-celled, leaves not stipulate. 

 Stigmas united ; juice milky ; ovaries 2 in our species. 



Styles -united ; stamens distinct ; pollen of simple 

 grains. 



Styles distinct ; stamens mostly monadelphous ; pol- 

 len-grains united into waxy masses. 



Fam. 3. GENTIANACKAI:. 



Fam. 4. APOCYNACEAE. 

 Fam. 5. ASCLEPIADACEAE. 



Family 1. OLEACEAE Lindl. 

 OLIVE FAMILY. 



Trees, vines, or shrubs (a few genera almost herbaceous) with opposite 

 or rarely alternate simple or pinnate estipulate leaves and reg'ular 2-4- 

 parted flowers in panicles, cymes or fascicles. Calyx inferior, usually 

 small, sometimes none. Stamens 2-4; filaments separate; anthers ovate, 

 oblong or linear, 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary superior, 

 2-celled ; ovules few in each cavity, anatropous or amphitropous ; style 

 usually short or none. Fruit a capsule, samara, berry or -drupe. Endo- 

 sperm fleshy, horny or wanting; embryo straight, rather large; radicle usu- 

 ally short. About 21 genera and 525 species, of wide distribution in tem- 

 perate and tropical regions. 



Corolla tubular with a spreading limb ; fruit didymous. 1. Jasminum. 



Corolla small or none ; fruit drupaceous. 



Corolla none ; shrubs or trees. 



Corolla rotate, white ; trees. 



2. Forcstiera. 



3. Olea. 



1. JASMINUM [Tourn.] L. 



Shrubs or woody vines, with mostly opposite, simple or compound leaves, 

 and large, clustered or solitary flowers. Calyx lobed or parted. Corolla 

 salverform, its tube cylindric, its limb lobed or parted, the lobes imbricated. 

 Stamens 2, included; filaments short; anthers laterally dehiscent. Ovary 2- 

 celled ; style very slender ; stigma capitate or 2-lobed ; ovules mostly 2 in each 

 cavity. Fruit didymous, fleshy. Seeds without 

 endosperm. [Ancient name, of Arabic origin.] 

 About 100 species, natives of the Old World. 

 Type species : Jasminum, offidnale L. 



1. Jasminum simplicifolium Forst. f. 

 SIMPLE- LEAVED JASMINE. (Fig. 307.) A gla- 

 brous woody vine, attaining a length of 30 

 or more, climbing on trees and forming dense 

 thickets. Leaves opposite, simple, dark green, 

 somewhat shining, subcoriaceous, ovate to el- 

 liptic, 1/-2-J' long, acutish or blunt at the apex, 

 obtuse at the base faintly veined, the petioles 

 2"-4'-' long ; flowers few in terminal corymbs ; 

 pedicels slender; calyx campanulate, about 1-i" 

 long, its teeth very short; corolla white, its 

 tube about *' long, its limb star-like, 6"-8" 

 broad; fruits black, didymous, each of the two 

 lobes globose, about 3" in diameter, eaten by 

 birds and the seeds thus scattered. [Jasminum 

 gracile Andr.] 



Overrunning trees and rocks nearly through- 

 out the land between Harrington Sound and Castle 

 Harbor, and locally elsewhere. A pernicious weed, 

 most difficult to exterminate. Native of Austral- 

 nsin. Introduced about 1840. Flowers in early 

 summer and, sparingly, in autumn, the flowers 

 fragrant 



