316 OLEACEAE. 
FoRESTIERA. Swamp Privet. 
(Family Oleaceae). 
Shrubs or small trees with 
many short divergent almost 
spiny twigs: deciduous. Twigs 
slender, round: pith small, con- 
tinuous, white, -rounded. Buds 
superposed, sessile, globose, small, 
with 2-4 pairs of exposed scales. 
Leaf-scars opposite, shield-shaped, 
low and small: bundle-trace l, 
crescent-shaped: stipule-scars 
lacking. (Adelia). 
Winter-character references to 
Forestiera acuminata:—Hitchcock 
(1), 3; Schneider, f. 205. 
In the rich bottom lands of the 
Mississippi river the swamp privet 
makes thickets that are very 
dense at top but open near the 
ground. Such a thicket is pictured 
(pl. 10) by S. M. Coulter in a 
discussion of various types of 
swamps in volume 15 of the Report of the Missouri Botanical 
Garden. 
Twigs glabrous or puberulent, warty. F. acuminata. 
