ASCLEPIADACEAE 



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Asclepias viridiflora. Rafin. $ Fl. Cestr. ed. 2. p. 174. 

 GREEN-FLOWERED ACERATES. 



Stem 1 to 2 feet high, simple, rather stout and suffruticose, tomentose-pubesccnt. 

 Leaves 2 to 3 inches long, often emarginate, mucronate, thickish and coriaceous; 

 petioles % of an inch in length. Umbels 2, 3, or 4, dense, nodding; common pe- 

 duncles *4 to % an inch long; pedicds about ^ an inch in length, with linear- 

 lanceolate bracts at base; corolla pale green; crown greenish-white; /oHtcfej 3 or 4 

 inches long, ventricose, tomentose-pubescent. 

 Hob. Great Valley, and near Marlboruugh-villc : rare. Fl. July. Fr. Sept. 



339. GOIVCVL.OBUS, MX. 



[Or. Gonia, an angle, and Lotos, a pod ; from its ribbed, or angular follicles.] 

 Calyx 5-parted. Corolla rotate, deeply 5-parted, the lobes convo- 

 lute in the bud. Crown a small fleshy wavy lobed ring, in the 

 throat of the corolla. Anthers partly hidden under the flattened 

 pentagonal stiguia, opening transversely; pollen-masses 5 pairs, 

 horizontal. Follicles ventricose, more or less ribbed, softly muri- 

 cate ; seeds comose. Stem twining ; leaves opposite ; flowers in 

 axillary pedunculate cymose umbels. 



1. G. macropliyl'lUS, MX. Leaves orbicular-cordate, abruptly 

 acuminate, petiolate ; peduncles mostly longer than the petioles. 

 LARGE-LEAVED GONOLOBUS. 



Stem 4 to 6 feet long, slender, hirsutely pubescent, climbing over shrubs. Leaves 

 3 to 5 inches long, thinnish, finely pubescent ; petioles 1 to 2 or 3 inches in length, 

 hairy. Umbels loose ; common peduncles 1 or 2 to 4 inches long ; pedicds % an ^ nc ^ 

 to an inch and half in length ; corolla greenish and pubescent externally, dark 

 dingy-purple on the inner surface; follicles 2 to 4 inches long. 

 Ilab. Hilly woodlands ; near Pughtown : rare. Fl. July. Fr. Sept. 



ORDER LXXIY. OLEA^CEAE. 



Trees, or shrubs, with opposite branches; leaves opposite, simple, or odd-pinnate; 

 stipules none; flowers paniculate, or racemose, perfect and complete, or some- 

 times dioicous and apetalous ; calyx 4-cleft, the teeth sometimes obsolete; coroUa 

 (when present) 4-lobed, or of 4 petals, valvate in the bud; stamens usually 2; 

 urary 2-celled; fruit various, baccate, drupaceous, samaroid, or capsular, by 

 abortion often 1-celled, and 1- or 2-seeded ; seeds mostly in hard fleshy albumen. 



A small but interesting Order. Olives, and Olive oil, are afforded, by the drupes 

 of the genus (Olea) which is the type of the Family, the fleshy pericarp chiefly 

 (" mcmorabili inter vegetabilia exceptione," DC.) yielding the oil. The Manna, of 

 tho shops, is obtained from a species of Ash (Fraxinus rotundifolia, Lam.). 



a. Leaves simple, f fruit a Berry. 



34O. MGIIS'TRCM, Tourntf. 

 [The classical Latin name ; said to be formed from ligare, to tie.] 



Calyx 4-toothed, deciduous. Corolla funnel-form, 4-lobed; lobes 

 ovate, obtuse. Stamens included. Style short; stigma 'bifid. Fruit 

 a globose 2-seeded berry. Shrubs : leaves entire ; flowers in terminal 

 thyrsoid panicles. 



1, L. vulaare, L. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, mucronate, smooth, on 

 short petioles ; panicles compact. 

 COMMON LIGUSTRUM. Privet. Prim. 



