OLEACEAE. 309 
FONTANESIA. 
(Family Oleaceae). 
Shrubs: deciduous. Twigs 
slender, 4-angled, the bark soon 
fibrous-shredding: pith greenish, 
rounded, continuous. Buds small, 
solitary, sessile, compressed ovoid, 
with 2 or 38 pairs of pointed 
scales. Leaf-scars opposite, short- 
shield-shaped, small, somewhat 
raised, ciliate: bundle-trace 1, half- 
round: stipule-scars lacking. 
Winter-character reference to 
Fontanesia phillyraeoides:— 
Schneider, f. 205. 
Fontanesias, like privets, are 
rather conspicuous among shrubs 
grown in the northern states in 
showing no autumnal coloration 
but holding their bright green 
foliage well through the fall,—a 
habit that dictates caution in un- 
skilfully blending them in fro- 
miscuous planting. 
Twigs and buds glabrous, brown. : F. phillyraeoides. 
