352 OLEACEJE. (OLIVE FAMILY.) 



Synopsis. 



TRIBE I. OL.EINE JE. Fruit a drupe or berry. Flowers with both calyx and corolla. 

 Leaves simple, entire. 



1. OSMANTHUS. Flowers polygamous Corolla salver-shaped, with short lobes. 

 2. CHIONANTHUS. Flowers perfect. Corolla wheel-shaped, with elongated lobes. 



TRIBE II, FRAXINEvE. Fruit a samara. Flowers dioecious, apetalous. Leaves 

 pinnate. 



3. FRAXINUS. Flowers in lateral and terminal panicles. Calyx minute or rarely want- 



ing. Trees. 



TRIBE III. FORESTIEKE^. Fruit a drupe. Flowers dioecious or perfect, apeta- 

 lous. Leaves simple. 



4. FORESTIERA. Flowers mostly dioecious, from scaly axillary buds. Shrubs. 



1. OSMANTHUS, Loureiro. 



Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla short-salver-form, 4-lobed. Stamens 2. Style 

 short. Stigma globose or 2-lobed. Drupe mostly 1 -seeded, oily. Trees or 

 shrubs, with opposite coriaceous entire leaves, and small white fragrant 

 flowers, in axillary racemes or panicles. 



1. O. Americanus, Benth. & Hook. Smooth; leaves oblong or obo- 

 vate-oblong, narrowed into a petiole ; racemes compound, shorter than the 

 leaves ; flowers polyganio-dicecious, bracted drupe ovoid, dark purple. 

 Light soil, near the coast, Florida to North Carolina. March -April. A 

 shrub or small tree, with whitish bark and evergreen leaves. Drupe as large 

 as a pea, bitter and astringent. 



2. O. Floridanus, Chapm. Inflorescence more or less pubescent ; style 

 sigmoid; stigma nearly as broad as the ovary ; drupe ovoid, yellowish-green, 

 8" -9" long. Otherwise like the preceding. Sandy pine barrens, Manatee, 

 South Florida (.7. 11. Simpson). A low shrub. 



2. CHIONANTHUS, L. FRINGE TREE. 



Calyx small, 4-cleft. Corolla wheel-shaped, 4-parted, with long and linear 

 lobes. Stamens 2-4, included. Style very short: stigma notched. Drupe 

 fleshly, 1-seeded. A shrub, with oblong entire deciduous leaves, and deli- 

 cate white flowers in slender axillary panicles, appearing witli the leaves. 



1. C. Virginica, L. Light soil, Florida, and northward. April -May. 

 Shrub 6- 10 high. Leaves smooth or pubescent, narrowed into a petiole. 

 Panicles longer than the leaves, leafy-bracted. Flowers on slender drooping 

 pedicels. Corolla lobes 1' long. Drupe ovoid, purple. 



3. FRAXINUS, Tourn. ASH. 



Flowers dioecious and (in ours) apetalous. Calyx 4 lobed or toothed, 

 minute, sometimes wanting. Stamens 2-4: filaments shorter than the 

 large anthers. Stigma 2-cleft. Fruit (samara ) dry, winged above, 1-2- 

 seeded. Cotyledons elliptical. Kadicle slender. Trees. Leaves petioled. 

 odd pinnate, deciduous. 



