104 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. OUa, 



the calyx may be called five-leaved. — Nectary, from the Inside of the 

 base of each petal arises a variously lobed, ragged leaflet or scale 

 which is incurved over the germ; besides which round the base 

 of the germ is a small, three-sided cup with bidentate angles. — Fi' 

 laments two, opposite, length of the germ, short, broad, with enlarg- 

 ed apex ; from the base on the outside, rises a broad, tridentate scale, 

 of about the length of the filament. Anthers twin, each lobe globular, 

 opening transversely on the inside. — Germ superior, cordate two- 

 celled, with two ovula in each cell, attached to the partition. Styh 

 short. Sticrma small, bidentate — Drupe size of a pea, smooth, black, 

 succulent, one-ceiled. Nut roundish thick for its size and very hard, 

 rugose, one celled, two-valved, v/ith a projection into the cell oppo- 

 site to the remains of the style on one side near the base, which 

 marks the abortive lobe, — Seed solitary, conform to the nut. Ittfeo-u- 

 meut single, membranaceous. — Perisperm none, or in small quanti- 

 ty, and blended with the integument.— Embri/o curved, and folded 

 up nearly as in the ConvolvulaceiB. Cotyledons ovi^teohlong. Radicle 

 infciior, curved. 



OLEA. Schreb. gen. N. 25. 



Corol and cali/x four-cleft. Germ two-celled, two-seeded. Drupe 

 superior, one-seeded. Embryo inverse and furnished with a peri- 

 sperm, 



1. O. fragrant. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. Willd. 1. 4. 6, 



Shrubby. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, slightly serrate. Peduncles 

 axillary. 



Olevifragrans. Thunb, Jap. 18. t. 2. good. 



A nati e of China, in the Botanic Garden it blossoms during the 

 cool season. 



2. O. paniculata. R, 



Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong, entire, smooth. Panicles axilla- 

 ry. Bractes deciduous. J^obes of the stigma divaricate. 



