OUVK FAMILY. 



1. jASMINUM, JESSAMINE. (From the Arabic name.) Cultivate., 

 for ornament, from the Old World, all tender and house-plants except at the 

 South. Flowers fragrant. 



# l''l<nri i* i/ /'on- : leaves commonly alternate and compound. 



J. odoratissimum, COMMON SWKKT YELLOW J., from Madeira: smooth, 

 twining ; leaflets .'! or f>, ovate ; peduncles terminal, few-flowered. 



J. revolution, from Himalayas or China: not twining, has mostly 3 - 7 

 leaflets, and more numeni.i- and fragrant flowers, 1^' wide. 

 * # Flowers trliilc : It.uves opposite. 



J. officinale, COMMON WHITE J., from the East, has striatc-angled 

 branches scarcely twining, about 7 oblong or lance-ovate leaflets, a terminal 

 cvme of verv fragrant flowers and calyx-teeth slender. 



J. granditiorum, from India, has 7 or 9 oval leaflets, the uppermost con- 

 fluent, larger and fewer flowers than the foregoing, reddish outside. 



J. Azdricum, from the Azores and Madeira : not twining, with 3 ovate or 

 heart-shaped leaflets, terminal cymes of very sweet-scented flowers, and very 

 short calyx-teeth. 



J. Sambac, from Tropical India : scarcely climbing, pubescent ; leaves 

 simple, ovate, or heart-shaped ; flowers in small close clusters ; calyx-teeth 

 about 8, slender, the rounded lobes of the corolla as many ; flowers simple or 

 double, very fragrant, especially at evening. 



2. FORSYTHIA. (Named for IT. A. Forsyth, an English botanist.) 

 Ornamental shrubs, from China and Japan, with flowers from separate 

 lateral buds, preceding the serrate leaves, in early spring. 



F. viridissima, a vigorous shrub, with strong and mostly erect yellowish 

 green branches, covered in early spring with abundant showy yellow flowers, 

 followed by the deep green lance-oblong leaves. 



F. SUSpensa, shrub with long and slender weak branches hanging, or some 

 of them creeping, to be treated as a climber ; flowers still earlier, but less pro- 

 fuse ; leaves thinner, duller, ovate. 



3. SYRINGA, LILAC. (From Greek word for tube, alluding either to the 



'tubular corolla or to the nvius. used for pipe-stems.) Familiar ornamental 

 tall shrubs, fmm the Old World, with scaly buds in the axils of the leaves, 

 but hardly ever a terminal one (so that there is only a pair at the tip of a 

 branch), entire leaves on slender petioles, and crowded compound panicles or 

 thvrsus of mostly fragrant flowers, in spring. 

 S VUlgaris COMMON- L., from E. Europe or Persia : with ovate and more 



or less heart-shaped leaves, and lobes of corolla moderately spreading; fl. lilac 



or pale violet, and a white variety. 



S Persica, PKRSIAN L ; more slender, with lance-ovate leaves, and 1 



clusters of lilac-purple or paler or sometimes white flowers, bonier of the corolla 



flat when open. 



4. LIGUSTRITM, PKIVKTor PKIM. (Classical Latin name.) Shrubs 

 'of Old World, planted for ornament, with short-pctiolcd entire leaves and 



panicles of small flowers, in early summer. 



L. VUlgare, COMMON P.. of Europe, here planted for hedges, and running 

 wild E. ; leaves small, lance-ovate or lance-oblong. 



L Japdnicum. Cult, from Japan, not hardy N. : has long and widely 

 spreading branches, larger ovate leave.-, and larger flowers in ample panic, 



6. 6LEA, OL1VK. (The classical Latin name.) Flowers small, and in 



small panicles or corymbs, in spring. 



O. Europaea, OUVK of the Levant, sometimes planted far S. : tree with 

 lanceolate or lance-oblong pale entire leaves, whitish-scurfy beneath, and oblong 

 edible oily fruit. 



