OLEACEiE. (olive FAMILY.) 519 



JASmilVUlI, Toiirn. Jessamine. Yasemin. 



Characters as above. Berries with twin, 1-seeded cells — Shrubs, 

 bushy or climbing. 



J. frutican§, L. 5 -^ ^^ l-^j ^^^ climbing, with somewhat 

 angled branches. Leaves alternate, tri-foliolate or simple, somewhat 

 leathery, leaflets oblong-simthulate. Flowers 2-4 at end of branches, 

 .015 long, yellow; calyx-teeth awl-shaped, one-third to one-fourth as 

 long as corolla — April to June — Common in lower and middle zone 

 of mountains. 



J. officinale, L., a climbing shrub, with odd pinnate leaves 

 composed of 3^ pairs of leaflets, and the well known, white, fragrant 

 flowers, is everywhere cultivated, but not spontaneous. 



Order LXIV. OLEACE^, Lindl. (Olive Family). 



Shrubs 07' trees^ with opposite^ sirnjyle, or pinnate leaves^ 

 a Ai-cleft calyx (sometimes OJ, and a ^-'o-cleft or nearly 4- 

 Q-petaloiis corolla^ valvate in hud, sometimes apetalons. 

 Stamens 2, rarely 8 — Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Petals 

 in pairs, connected by a hlanient. Disk 0. Ovary with two, 

 2-ovnled cells. Style simple or 0. Stigma undivided or 2- 

 lobed. Fruit a drupe or samara. 



* Fruit a samara. 

 1. FEAXINUS. 5 Trees, with .02 to .04 long, oblong to oblong-elliptical samaras. 

 S. FONTANESIA. X Bushes, with elliptical, .008 long samaras. 

 * * Fruit drupaceous or baccate. 



3. PHILLTEEA. X Shrubs ; fruit a small, spherical, black drupe. 



4. OLEA. ^ Trees ; fruit a large, ovate^ black drupe. 



1. FRAXINUS, L. Ash. Darddr. 



Flowers polygamous or dioecious. Calyx 4-cleft or 0. Petals 4, in 

 pairs, connate as base, or 0. Ovary with two, 1-seeded cells and a 



short style. Samara flattened, winged at apex, by abortion 1-celled 



Trees, usually with odd-pinnate leaves. 



* Flowers perfect, furnished with loth calyx and corolla. 



1. F. Ornu§, , L. 5 5 to 15. Fig. 245. 



Leaves synanthous ; leaflets 3-4 pairs, 

 lanceolate to round-ovate, dentic- 

 ulate. Racemes from upper and ter- 

 minal axils, forming a panicle shorter 

 than the leaves; flowers .005 long; 

 petals linear, many times longer than 

 calyx; samaras oblong to oblong- Samara of F. Omus. 



spathulate, sometimes tapering at 



both ends, at others retuse at tip — Spring — Mountains; Lebanon to 

 Amauus. 



* * Flowers naked, destitute of loth calyx and corolla. 



