312 OLEACEAE. 
SCHREBERA. 
(Family Oleaceae). 
Tender trees: deciduous. Twigs 
slender, subterete though a little 
compressed and sometimes with 
slight decurrent lines at the nodes; 
pith moderate, round, white, 
spongily chambered at the nodes 
but disappearing between them. 
Buds small, with 2 overlapping 
ciliate scales. Leaf-scars opposite, 
obtusely shield-shaped, somewhat 
raised: bundle-trace 1, compound, 
crescent-shaped: stipule-scars lack- 
ing. (Nathusia). 
The name of the genus Schreb- 
era, which is botanically inter- 
mediate between Forsythia and 
Syringa, illustrates, like Jamesia, 
the conservative retention of 
names that have had often earlier 
but transient use. Nathusia is 
sometimes taken as the proper 
name for the present genus because the name Schrebera, first 
given it in 1798, had been used as early as 1791 for another 
genus not now considered to be tenable. 
Twigs very minutely gray-puberulent. S. Saundersiae. 
