72 STYRACACEiE. Styrax. 



the pedicel glandular-dotted : petals lanceolate-oblong, nearly glabrous. — Diet. i. 82 ; Gray, 

 Man. 1. c. S. here, Walt. Car. 140. S.glabrum, Cav. Diss. vi. oOO, t. 188 ; Michx. Fl. ii. 41. 

 S. Icevigaium, Ait. Kew. ii. 75 ; Bot. Mag. t. 021. Halesia parvijioru, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 952 ? 

 — Along streams, Virginia to Florida, Louisiana, and Arkansas. 



* * Petals lightly but decidedly imbricated or convolute in the bud, minutely soft-puberulent out- 

 side, bareh' half inch long: calj'x aud intlorescence with the lower face of the leaves more or less' 

 canesceut. 



S. pulverulenta, Michx. Low slirub : leaves as in tlie preceding, but more or less 

 pubescent or scurfy and hoary beneath, rarely 2 inches long on flowering stems : flowers 

 geminate in the axils on short branchlets and in short terminal racemes, fragrant : pedicels 

 not longer than the calyx: petals oblong-lanceolate. — Fl. ii. 41 ; Ell. Sk. i. 505. — Pine- 

 barren swamps, S. Virginia to Florida and Texas. 



S. grandifolia, Ait. Shrub from 4 to 12 feet high : leaves membranaceous, oval or ob- 

 ovate, usually denticulate, green and glabrous above, canescently pubescent or tomentose 

 beneath, the larger 3 to 6 inclies long : flowers mainly in loose naked racemes of 3 to 6 

 inches in length, or some in leafy -bracted clusters, larger than in the preceding: petals 

 more overlapping in bud, oblong, fully half inch in length. — Lodd. Cab. t. 1016 (poor) ; 

 Michx. Fl. ii. 41, as S. fjrandijlonim. S. officinale, Walt., not L. — Rich woods, S. Virginia 

 to Florida. 



* * * Petals conispicnously overlapping in the buil, ob nvate or broadly oblong, two tlnrds to three 

 fourths inch long: short peduncle terminating the liranches or short lateral branchlets, corym- 

 boselv 1— l-rtowiTi'd : bracts minute: style long and iiliform. 



S. platanifolia, Engelm. Shrub 12 feet liigh, green and glabrous or nearly so : leaves 

 roundish, with snbcordate or truncate broad base an 1 slender petiole, undulate or angulate- 

 toothed, or even sinuate-lobed, sometimes abruptly acuminate, reticulate-veiny (2 to 4 

 inches in diaineter) : even the pedicels and calyx glabrous or nearly so. — Torr. in Smiths. 

 Contrib. vi. 4, note. — Wooded bottoms, Texas, Lindheim r, Wnjht, &c. 



S. Calif ornica, Torr. Shrub 5 to 8 feet high, with scurfy stellular pubescence, at first 

 hoary, sometimes soon green and glabrate : leaves oval, entire or sparingly undulate (an 

 inch or two long), short-petioled : pedicels with the calyx and corolla nnnutely canescent : 

 style becoming an inch long. — Smiths. Contrib. 1. c. & Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 118; Gray, Bot. 

 Calif, i. 470. — W. side of the Sierra Nevada, California, Fremont, &c. Bony seed as large 

 as a small cherry. 



Order LXXXVI. OLEACEiE. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely almost herbaceous, witli colorless bland juice, opposite 

 (rarely alternate) leaves destitute of stiptiles, perfect or dicecious and regular 

 flowers (gamopetalous, 2-4-petalous, apetalous, or even achlamydeous) ; with 

 stamens 2 to 4, mostly 2 and fewer than the parts of the corolla, distinct ; the free 

 ovary 2-celled ; style one or none ; anatropous ovules mostly one or two pairs in 

 each cell ; seeds with a rather large straiglit embryo (its cotyledons flat or plano- 

 convex) in firm fleshy albumen, or sometimes exalbuminous. 



FoRSYTiiiA viRiDissiMA and F. siTSPENSA, of Japan and China, cultivated ornamental 

 shrubs, noted for their very early yellow blossoms, are peculiar in having numerous ovules. 



Syringa, the Lilac, of the Old World, becomes spontaneous in a few places. 



LiGUSTRUM VDLGARE, the Privet, used for ornanient.al hedges, is also occasionally found 

 wild in the vicinity of towns in the Eastern Atlantic States, aud may claim to be a really natu- 

 ralized plant. 



Olea Europ^a, the Olive, has long been planted in the southern part of California. 



Tribe I. FRvVXINEzE. Fruit entire, dry, indehisceiit, winged, a samara. Seed 



suspended. 

 1. FRAXINUS. Flowers dioecious or polygamous, sometimes perfect. Calyx very small, 

 4-clef t or irregularly toothed, or entire, or wanting. Petals none^ or 4 and either separate 



