352 OI.EACK.B. (OLIVK FAMILY.) 



Synopsis. 



Tribe I. OLKINK.T:. Fruit adrupo or berry. Flowers witli botli calyx find corolla. 

 Loaves Kiiiipli-, entire. 



1. OSM.\NTHUS. Flowers polyRainous. Corolla salver-sliaped, with short lobes. 



2. CHU)N.\NTHU8. Flowers perfect. Corolla wheel-shapeil, with elongated lobes. 



Tribe II. FKAXINK.^* Fruit a samara. Flowers diuecious, apetalous. Leaves 

 piiMiate. 



3. FR.\XINUS. Flowers in lateral and terminal panicles. Calyx minute or rarely want- 



ing. Trees. 



Tribe III. FORKSTIEKEiE. Fruit a drupe. Flowers diftcious or perfect, apeta- 

 lous. Leaves simple. 



4. FORESTIERA. Flowers mostly dioecious, from scaly axillary buds. Shrubs. 



1. OSMANTHUS, Loureiro. 



Calyx 4-t()otlieil. Corolla sliort-saher-form, 4-lobed. Stamens 2. Style 

 short. Stigma globose or 2-lobed. Drupe mostly l-seeded, oily. — Trees or 

 shrulis, witli opposite coriaceous entire leaves, and small white fragrant 

 flowers, in axillary racemes or panicles. 



1. O. Amerieanus, Benth. & Hook. Smooth; leaves oblong or obo- 

 vate-oblong, narrowed into a petiole; racemes compound, shorter than the 

 leaves; flowers polygamo-dicecious, liracted ; drupe ovoid, dark purple. — 

 Light soil, near tlie coast, Florida to North Carolina. March- April. — A 

 shrub or small tree, with whitish bark and evergreen leaves. Drupe as large 

 as a pea, bitter and astringent. 



2, O. Ploridanus, Chapm. Inflorescence more or less pubescent ; style 

 sigmoid; stigma nearly as broad as the ovary; drupe ovoid, yellowish-green, 

 8" -9" long. Otherwise like the preceding. — Sandy pine barrens, Manatee, 

 South Florida (./. //. Simpson). — A low slirub. 



2. CHIONANTHUS, L. Fringe Tree. 



Calyx small, 4-cleft. Corolla wheel-shaped, 4-parted, with long and linear 

 lobes. Stamens 2-4, included. Style very short: .stigma notched. Drupe 

 fleshly, 1-seeded. — A shrub, with oblong entire deciduous leaves, and deli- 

 cate white Howers in slender axillary panicles, appearing with the leaves. 



1. C. Virginica, L. — Light soil, Florida, and northward. April -May. 

 — Shrub 6°- 1(1^ high. Leaves smooth or pubescent, narrowed into a petiole. 

 Panicles longer tiian the leaves, leafy-bracted. Flowers on slender drooping 

 pedicels. Corolla lobes I' long. Drupe ovoid, purple. 



3. FHAXINUS, Tourn. Ash. 



Flowers dioecious and (in ours) apetalous. Calyx 4-lobed or toothed, 

 minute, sometimes wanting. Stamens 2-4: filaments shorter than the 

 large anthers. Stigma 2cleft, Fruit (samara) dry, winged above, 1-2- 

 seeded. Cotyledons elliptical. Radicle slender. — Trees. Leaves petioled, 

 odd-pinnate, deciduous. 



