Hesperelcea. OLEACE/E. 77 



trina, Michx. 1. c., cxcl. hab. Borya Hrjitstrina, Willd. 1. c., but character wrongly altered, as 



also by Poiret, 1. c. Tennessee to Florida, &c., but not Illinois. 

 P. pubescens, Nutt. Soft-pubescent : fertile flowers and oblong drupes pedicellate : 



putamen striate : otherwise like the preceding. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. v. 177. 



F. ligustrina, var. pubescens, Gray, 1. c. Florida, Arkansas, and Texas. 



* * Leaves coriaceous (very small), not porulose. 

 F. sphserocarpa, Torr. Low shrub ; leaves oblong or oval, obtuse, obscurely crenu- 



late, minutely soft-pubescent, half inch long, short-petioled, mainly crowded at the tip of 



the branchlets : drupe globular, very short-pedicelled. Bot. Mex. Bound. 168. S. W. 



Texas, in dry ravines of the Rio Limpio, B'ujdow. 



* * * Leaves coriaceous, porulose-punctate beneath, often persistent until flowers develop in their 

 axils, or even to the maturity of the fruit, 



H Their margins plane, often serrulate. 



F. reticulata, Torr., 1. c. Glabrous throughout: leaves ovate or almost oblong, with 

 rounded base and obtuse or acute mucronulate apex, short-petioled, firm-coriaceous, lucid 

 above, conspicuously venulose-rcticulated, an inch or more long : fascicles few-flowered 

 and very short in the axils of persistent leaves : drupe short-ovoid. Western borders of 

 Texas, Writ/lit, Bitjclow, Sc/wtt. 



-)-! Margin of the leaves narrowly revolute, entire. 



F. porulosa, Poir. Much branched shrub, glabrous: leaves thin-coriaceous, obovate- 

 oblong to lanceolate, tapering at base into a short distinct petiole, obtuse or rounded at 

 apex (one or two inches long), the scattered and spreading veins manifest: drupes short- 

 oblong, short-pedicelled. Gray, 1. c., excl. vars. Alyrica seyregata, Jacq. Obs. ii. 273, & Ic. 

 Rar. t. 625. Adelia porulosa, Michx. 1. c. Borya porulosa, Willd. 1. c. Forcstierti Jacquiniana, 

 Didrichson, Ind. Sem. Ilanib. 1838, & Linn, xxvii. 737. S. Florida : rare. (W. Ind.) 



F. angustifolia, Torr. Densely branched and rather large shrub, glabrous: leaves 

 firm-coriaceous, linear or spatulate-linear (0 to 12 lines long and 1 to 3 wide), sometimes 

 linear-oblong (short and 4 lines wide), very obtuse, veinless or nearly so : flowers not rarely 

 hermaphrodite, few in the close cluster: drupe ovate, acute, very short-pedicelled. Bot. 

 Mex. Bound. 103. F. pomlosa, var. ? angustifolia, Gray, 1. c. Texas, from Matagorda Bay 

 and New Braunfels southward to Mexico. 



F. PHILLYREIOIDES, Torr. I.e. (Piptol'epis phillyreioides, Benth. PI. Hartw. 29), of Mexico 

 (Ilartiuetj, Grajij, &c.), appears to have leaves destitute of the pore-like punctuations, smaller 

 than those of F. pornloaa, but similar in form and venation, the lower face more or less pubes- 

 cent, and the drupes oblong. 



3. CHIONANTHUS, L. FRINGE-TREE. (From pw;>, snow, and avdog, 

 blossom, alluding to the snow-white and light clusters of flowers.) --Shrubs or 

 low trees (the genuine species E. North American and Chinese) ; with simple 

 and entire opposite deciduous leaves, and loose compound panicles of white 

 flowers, in early summer, from the uppermost axils of the leaves of the preceding 

 year. Petals sometimes nearly separate or separable, oftener united (but irregu- 

 larly) to about twice the length of the small calyx, in cultivation occasionally 

 o or 6. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. v. 231 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 677. 



C. Virginica, L. Somewhat pubescent: leaves oval or oblong, 3 to 6 inches long, short- 

 petioled : panicles drooping, with very slender branches and pedicels and usually some 

 foliaceous bracts : petals an inch long, acute : fruit black or bluish, with thin pulp, glob- 

 ular, half inch or more long. (Catesb. Car. t. 08.) Lam. 111. t. 9; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 

 t. 1264. Along streams, S. Pennsylvania to Florida and Texas. 



4. HESPEREL-^A, Gray. (' 'EansQa, evening or occidental, tlaia, the 

 olive-tree.) --Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 83. Single species. 



H. Palmeri, Gray. Small tree, glabrous : leaves opposite, entire, coriaceous, oblong, 

 veiny : flowers sulphur-colored, crowded in a terminal compound panicle : pedicels short, 



