OLEACEAE. 315 
OsMANTHUS. Fragrant Olive. 
(Family Oleaceae). 
Shrubs or small trees: ever- 
green. Twigs moderately slender, 
rounded or 4-lined from the 
nodes: pith angular or roundish, 
pale, continuous. Buds small, ses- 
sile, sometimes superposed, with 
a pair of valvate scales. Leaf- 
scars opposite, broadly crescent- 
shaped, somewhat raised: bundle- 
trace 1, crescent-shaped: stipule- 
sears lacking. Leaves’ simple, 
coriaceous, sometimes pungently 
toothed. 
Osmanthus Aquifolium bears 
considerable resemblance to an 
evergreen holly and is sometimes 
cultivated as a holly; but it may 
be recognized readily by its op- 
posite leaves, those of Jlex being 
alternate. O. fragrans, like the 
related jessamines, emits an in- 
tense and penetrating fragrance which gives its common 
name to the genus. 
1. Leaves small (5-7 cm.), typically toothed. 
(1). O. Aquifolium. 
Leaves larger, subentire. 2. 
2. Leaves elliptical, somewhat denticulate. (2). O. fragrans. 
Leaves oblanceolate, entire, revolute. (3). O. americanus. 
