Class II.— DIANDEIA. 



Order I. — Monogynia. 



A. Corolla inferior. 

 f Fruit a drupe or nut. 



8. OLEA. L, (Olive.) 



Calix small, 4-toothed; tube of the corolla 

 short, border 4-cleft, lamina more or less ovate. 

 Lobes of the stigma emarginate. Drupe 2- 

 seeded; one of the seeds usually abortivcf 



Leaves evergreen, very rarely alternate; flowers race- 

 mose or paniculate, axillary or terminal, in O.fragnms the 

 flowers simply aggregate. 



Species. 1. O. Americana. Flowers dioicous. Grows 

 near the sea-coast. Fruit acerb. 



9. CHIONANTHUS. L. (Fringe-tree.) 



Calix 4-parted. Corolla deeply 4-parted, la- 

 mina long and linear. Mthers nearly sessile 

 on the tube. Drupe 1 -seeded. JVut striated. 



Small trees with simple leaves, flrAvers rese-Tibling 

 those of the Omus, panicled, or more rarely corymDose; 

 panicles sometimes bracteate, axillary and termmal, tn- 

 fid, or trlchotomous, sometimes triandrous Fruit and 

 flowers pendulous. 



Species. 1. C. Virgi7iica Most abundant near the sea- 

 coasi, where it arrives at a considerable .r.aajnitude. Neap 

 Port Elizabeth, New-Jersev, my irlend, Z. Collins, esq. sav 

 a tree of the Chionmithus near 30 feet high. Persoon i-e» 

 marks that the corolla of this species varies from 4, 5, to 

 6 cleft, and with 4 stamens! 



t Nut bilocular, one of the cells often obliterated. Gi^RTJiEn^ 

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