604 OLEACEAE. (Vor. Il. 
5. LIGUSTRUM L,. Sp. Pl. 7. 1753. 
Shrubs or small trees, with opposite entire simple leaves, and small white complete 
flowers in terminal thyrses or panicles. Calyx small, truncate or 4-toothed, inferior. 
Corolla gamopetalous, funnelform, ifs tube mostly short, the limb 4-lobed, the lobes indu- 
plicate-valvate in the bud. Stamens 2, inserted on the tube of the corolla; filaments short. 
Ovary 2-celled; ovules 2 in each cavity, pendulous; style short or slender; stigma thickened. 
Fruit a 1-3-seeded mostly globose berry. [The 
classical Latin name. ] 
About 35 species, natives of the Old World. 
1. Ligustrum vulgare L. Privet. 
Prim. (Fig. 2846.) 
Ligustrum vulgare \,. Sp. Pl. 7. 1753. 
A shrub, 6°-10° high, the branches long and 
slender. Leaves firm, tardily deciduous, 
glabrous, lanceolate or oblong, acute or ob- 
tuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, short- 
petioled, 9’’-2’ long, 3/’’-7’’ wide, obscurely 
veined; panicles dense, short, minutely pubes- 
cent; flowers white, about 3’ broad; pedicels 
very short; stamens included; berries globose, 
black, 2’’-3/’ in diameter. 
In thickets and along roadsides, escaped from 
cultivation, Ontario and western New York to 
Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Native of 
Europe and Asia. Used for hedges. June-July. 
Old English names, Primwort, Print, Skedge, 
Skedgwith. 
Family 14. LOGANIACEAE Dumort. Anal. Fam. 21. 1829. 
LOGANIA FAMILY. 
Herbs, shrubs, vines or some tropical genera trees, with opposite or verticil- 
late simple stipulate leaves, or the leaf-bases connected by a stipular line or 
membrane, and regular perfect 4-5-parted mostly cymose or spicate flowers. 
Calyx inferior, the tube campanulate, sometimes short or none, the segments 
imbricated, at least in the bud. Corolla gamopetalous, funnelform. campanu- 
late, or rarely rotate. Stamens as many as the lobes of the corolla, alternate 
with them, inserted on the tube or throat; anthers 2-celled, the sacs longitudin- 
ally dehiscent; pollen-grains simple. Disk usually none. Ovary superior, 2- 
celled (rarely 3-5-celled); style simple, 2-5-cleft or 2-divided, rarely 4-cleft; 
ovules numerous or few in each cavity, anatropous or amphitropous. Fruita 
2-valved capsule in our species. Seeds winged or wingless; embryo small, 
usually straight; endosperm copious; cotyledons narrow or foliaceous; radicle 
terete or conic. 
About 30 genera and-4oo species, widely distributed in warm and tropical regions. 
Style 4-cleft; woody vine: flowers large, yellow. 1. Gelsemium. 
Style simple, 2-lobed or 2-divided with a common stigma; herbs. 
Corolla-lobes valvate; capsule didymous or 2-lobed; leaves broad. 
Style simple, jointed; spike simple. 2. Spigelia. 
Style 2-divided below; spikes cymose. 3. Cynoctonum. 
Corolla-lobes imbricate; capsule subglobose; leaves linear. 4. Polypremum. 
1. GELSEMIUM Juss. Gen. 150. 1789. 
Glabrous twining woody vines; leaves opposite, or rarely ternate, their bases connected 
by a stipular line; flowers large, yellow, in axillary and terminal nearly sessile cymes, the 
pedicels scaly-bracteolate. Calyx deeply 5-parted, the segments dry, imbricated. Corolla 
funnelform, with 5 broad lobes imbricated in the bud. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of 
the corolla; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary oblong, 2-celled; style slender or filiform, 4-cleft, 
the lobes stigmatic along the inner side; ovules numerous in each cavity, on linear placentae. 
Capsule elliptic, flattened contrary to the partition, septicidally dehiscent, the valves boat- 
shaped, 2-cleft at the summit; seeds several in each cell, flattened, winged. [From the 
Italian Gelsomino, the Jessamine. ] 
Two known species, the following of the southeastern United States, the other of eastern Asia. 
