730 Oleaceae. 
1034. Jasminum officinale L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p.9. — 
Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 43. — Bot. Mag., tab. 31. — Rehbch. Ie. XVIL 
tab. 36. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 103. — A glabrous 
climbing shrub; branches striate subangulate. Leaves alternate, 
opposite, trifoliate or simple, somewhat leathery, leaflets oblong 
spathulate. Panicles terminal, few-flowered, corymbosed. Flowers 
2—4 at the end of the branches, 1,5 cm long, white, fragrant; 
calyx-teeth awl-shaped, one-third to one-fourth as long as the corolla. 
— Flow. March to April. 
M. ma. M. p. N.d. N.f. N.v. D. a. sept. Cultivated everywhere 
in gardens and rarely subspontaneous. 
Local name: qayan (Forsk.); generally: yasemin. 
Origin of Caucasia, Persia and Himalaya. 
417. (2.) Olea Linn. 
Calyx small, campanulate, truncate or 4-lobed. Corolla-tube 
short, campanulate; segments 4, ovate, valvate. Stamens 2, inserted 
in the tube of the corolla; filaments short. Ovary 2-celled; style 
short; stigma capitate or emarginate. Fruit drupaceous; endocarp 
thick and bony, or thinner and crustaceous. Seeds usually solitary, 
pendulous, albuminous; albumen fleshy, sometimes slightly ruminate; 
cotyledons flat; radicle superior. — Trees or erect shrubs. Leaves 
opposite, simple, usually entire. Flowers small, panicled, herma- 
phrodite, dioecious or polygamous. 
Species about 40, spread through the warmer regions of the Old World. 
1035. Olea europaea L. Spec. Plant. I (1753), p. 11. — Boiss. 
Flor. Or. IV, p. 36. — Rehbch. Ic. XVII, tab. 33 fig. UI—IV. — 
Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 103. — Olea sativa Hoffmg. and 
Link Flor. Port. I, p. 387. — Olea Oleaster Hoffmg. and Link Flor. 
Port. I, p. 387. — A small tree or often shrub. Branches of the wild 
specimens more or less stiff, spinescent. Leaves oblong or lanceo- 
late, entire, silvery-scurfy below. Flowers in axillary racemes. Calyx 
cup-shaped, nearly truncate. Drupe ovate or ellipsoid. — Flow. 
February to March. 
N. d. N.f. O. Cultivated everywhere for its oily fruit. — Rarely 
subspontaneous. 
Local name: zeytun; azmitr. 
Common in all parts of the Mediterranean region, Asia Minor, Syria, 
Mesopotamia, Persia, Pundjab, Arabia and Nubia. 
