1 10 LXXX. OLKACE.E. 



Order LXXX. OLEACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, the latter often scandent. Leaves opposite (rarely 

 alternate or verticillate), simple or 3-fe\v-foliolate, entire or toothed ; 

 stipules 0. Flowers hermaphrodite, often dimorphous (rarely dioecious 

 or poly£?amous), regular, in terminal or axillary cymes or panicles (rarely 

 fascicled or racemose). Calyx free (rarely 0), usually small, campanulate, 

 truncate or 4 (sometimes 5-9) -lobed. Corolla usually gamopetalous 

 (rarely 4-9-petalled or 0); tube long or short; lobes or petals 4-12, 

 imbricate or induplicate-A'alvate in bud. Stamens usually 2 (in Indian 

 species), inserted on the corolla or (in the polypetalous or apetalous 

 genera) hypogynous ; filaments usually short ; anthers rather large, 

 ovate-oblong (rarely linear), dehiscing on the margin or subextrorsely. 

 Ovary free, 2-celled ; orules 1-2 (rarely 3-4) in each cell, attached to 

 the inner angle near the apex or base ; style usually short ; stigma 

 simple or 2-lobed. Fruit capsular, loculicidally 2-valved or indehiscent, 

 or a berry or a drupe. Seeds solitary or 2 in each cell, erect or 

 pendulous ; testa usually thin ; albumen fleshy or horny, often oily or ; 

 embryo straight ; radicle inferior or superior. — Distrib. Throughout 

 the tropical and temperate regions of the world ; genera 18 ; species 

 about 280. 



Corolla-lobes imbricate. 



Seeds erect ; radicle inferior. 



Shrubs usually scandent ; fruit of 2 borry-like carpels, one 



carpel sometimes wanting 1. J.ASMiNrM. 



An erect Lirge shrub or small tree ; fruit a bipartite com- 

 pressed capsule 2. NVCTANTIIES. 



Seeds pendulous, winged ; radicle superior. 



Fruit a woody pyriforni loculicidally dehiscent capsule . 3. Schrf.bera. 

 Corolla-lobes valvate. 



Corolla of distinct petals, free or connate in pairs 4. Linociera. 



Corolla tubular or ; infloresconec axillary 5. Oj^ea. 



Corolla iiifundibuliform ; inflorescence terminal 6. LicrsTnr.M. 



1. JASMINUM, Linn. 



Branched shrubs, erect or scandent. Leaves opposite (rarely alter- 

 nate), simple, 3-foliolate or imparipinnate. Flowers often handsome, in 

 cymes at the ends of the branches (rarely solitary). Calyx 4-y-toothed 

 or -lobed or almost -partite. Corolla hypocrateriform, white, pink or 

 yellow ; tube narrow ; lobes 4-12, spreading, imbricate in bud. Stamens 

 2, included in the corolla-tube; filaments very short ; anthers attached 

 at the back near the base, the connective usually mucronate. Ovary 

 2-celled ; ovules usually 2 in each cell, attached near the base ; style 

 cylindric ; stigma at length usually 2-tid. Berry didymous or often by 

 suppression simple ; carpels globose, ellipsoid or elongate. Seed usually 

 solitary in each carpel, erect ; albumen ; cotyledons plano-convex ; 

 radicle inferior. — Distrib. Asia, Africa, and Australia, 1 species in- 

 digenous in S. Europe, many species cultivated in various countries ; 

 species about 90. 



