OLEACE^. (olive FAMILY.) 519 



Tourn. Jessamine. Yasemiti. 



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

 bushy or climbing. 



J. frutieaiis, L. 5 -^ ^^ ^-^j ^^^ climbing, with somewhat 

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

 leathery, leaflets oblong-spathulate. 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. OLEACEiE, Lindl. (Olive Family). 



Shrubs or trees, with opposite, simple, or pinnate leaves, 

 a 4:-Gleft calyx (sometimes ^), and a ^-^-cleft or nearly 4- 

 Q-petalous corolla, valvate in hiod, sometimes apetalous. 

 Stamens 2, rarely 3 — Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Petals 

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

 2-ovuled cells. Style simple or 0. Stigma midiVided or 2- 

 lobed. Fruit a drupe or samara. 



* Fruit a samara. 



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



2. FONTANESIA. A Bushes, with elliptical, .008 long samaras. 



* * Fruit drupaceous or baccate. 



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



4. OLEA. ^ Trees ; fmit 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. Ornus, 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- Samaraof F. Ornus. 



spathulate, sometimes tapering at 



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

 Amanus. 



* * Flowers nalced, destitute of l)oth calyx and corolla. 



