Olea.| OLEACEAE. 301 
branching, glandular-hispid. Flowers irregularly cymose, or solitary and 
axillary. 
About 15 species, all but the following from the Andes, chiefly of Mexico and California. 
. N. Sandwicensis, Gray, in Plin Am, Ac. V, 3 — A low, divari- 
mets branching annual, not exceeding 4’ in height, Abus hispid with 
short gray hairs. Leaves yiedie spathulate, 3—6” long, obtuse, entire, 
rather thick. Flowers single or more generally two on a short bractless 
peduncle of 1'/2—3“, which, terminal at first, soon becomes lateral and 
forks close to its base. Calyx parted to the base into linear- dessepsisiciens 
lobes, 1'/2—2”, twice as long with fruit. Corolla purplish, its 
lobes as long as the tube. Capsule 3”, ovoid-elongate. Seeds ‘alnaig 
serobiculate. 
. On grassy plains and slopes: Maui! Kula and Wailuku; Oahu! Kahuku and Waikiki; 
auai, 
Orper LVII. QLEACEAE. 
Calyx usually small, 4- or 5-(rarely 6—8-)lobed or toothed. Corolla 
4- or 5-(6—8-) lobed, vith a long or short tube, or sometimes nahi 
to the base into 4 or 2 petals, or entirely wanting. Stamens 2, adhe: 
to the base of the corolla on opposite sides of the ovary, or ss 
Dicesiaatage with the lobes of the corolla, or hypogynous in apetalous 
Trees or shrubs, cinta herbs. Leaves opposite or rarely alternate, entire 
or pinnate. Flowers in axillary or terminal racemes or panicles, some- 
times reduced to ese clusters. 
A small Order, dispersed over the warmer regions of the globe. To it belong the 
Jessamines, of which Jasminum Sambac, Ait., and J. revolutum, Sims, are common n 
$a less so J. Azoricum. Of the following genus Olea fragrans and QO. paniculata, 
. Br., are in cultivation, also 0. Europaea, which however seldom bears fruit. 
1. OLEA, L. 
Calyx 4-toothed or truncate. Corolla 4-lobed , with a short tube, or 
rarely none, th usually i cate. Stamens 2, rarely 4. Ovary 
a drupe. Seed oS 1, with a fleshy albumen. Trees or shrubs, often 
polygamous. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers small, in axillary, rarely 
terminal, panicles, racemes or clusters. 
A genus noe over the Mediterranean countries, tropical Asia, S. Africa, the Mase 
Islands, — a and N. Zealand, with one species from N. America and the resi 
reseed which differs from all others in the 4-staminate flowers. 
1. O. Sandwicensis, Gray, in Proc. Am. Ac. V, 331, — A tall hand 
some tree, 30—50 ft. high, quite otis Leaves pale, coriaceous, 
