318 OLEACEAE. 
OLEA. Olive. 
(Family Oleaceae). 
Small trees, sometimes with 
spiny twigs: evergreen. Twigs 
slender, more or less 4-lined from 
the nodes, or quadrangular, mic- 
roscopically peltate-scurfy like the 
buds and the lower leaf-surface. 
Buds solitary, or occasionally 2 
superposed, sessile, ovoid, naked 
but the valvate outer leaves simu- 
lating scales. Leaf-scars broadly 
crescent-shaped, little raised, 
small: bundle-trace 1, transverse: 
stipule-scars lacking. Leaves 
simple, entire. 
Winter-character reference: — 
Olea europaea Oleaster (O. Oleas- 
ter). Bosemann, 49. Malpighi 
figured the buds of the olive as 
early as 1687,—Opera Omnia, p. 
22, Diz: 3. 
1. Spiny: leaves oblong, gray beneath. O. europaea Oleaster. 
Unarmed: leaves lanceolate, acute. 2. 
2. Leaves gray beneath. (Common olive). O. europaea. 
Golden-scurfy. (Golden-leaved olive). 
(1). O. europaea chrysophylla. 
