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OLEACEAE. 
PHILLYRABA. 
(Family Oleaceae). 
Shrubs or small trees: ever- 
green. Twigs rather slender, 4- 
lined from the nodes: pith round- 
ish, small, continuous. Buds 
small, sessile, superposed, com- 
pressed-ovoid, with 1-3 pairs of 
scales, the end-bud frequently 
lacking. Leaf-scars ~ opposite, 
raised, crescent-shaped: bundle- 
trace 1:  stipule-scars' lacking. 
Leaves petioled, dotted beneath. 
Loefling, in his essay on Gem- 
mae Arborum, 191, 197, noted in 
1749 that Phillyrea appears to 
have two terminal buds. This re- 
sults, as with the lilac, from the 
absence of a true terminal bud, 
the branching of the next year re- 
sulting from the development of 
the uppermost pair of axillary 
buds. 
. Exposed bud-scales 2, valvate. 2. 
Exposed scales 4 or 6: leaves lanceolate. 
(1). P. angustifolia. 
. Buds and twigs pubescent: leaves small, toothed. 
(2). P. media. 
Glabrous: leaves larger (8-10 cm.), entire. (3). P. decora. 
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