FLORA OF TROPICAL AFRICA. 



Order LXXXII. OLEACE^. (By J. G. Baker.) 



Flowers usually hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx inferior, small, cam- 

 panulate, usually 4-toothed. Corolla, gamopetalous, hypocrateriform, 

 funnel-shaped or campnnulate; lobes usually 4. Stamens usually 2, 

 epipetalous; filaments short ; anthers ovate-oblong, rarely linear, dorsi- 

 fixed, dehiscing longitudinally. Disk 0. Ovary superior, 2-celled ; 

 style usually short ; stigma usually capitate, often finally shortly 

 2-lobed ; ovules usually 2 in a cell, attached by the base to the side or 

 apex of the dissepiment, anatropous or amphitropous. Fruit capsular 

 or indehiscent. Seeds 2-4, or by abortion solitary, erect or pendulous, 

 albuminous or exalbuminous ; testa usually thin; embryo straight, 

 fleshy when the albumen is absent. — Erect or scandent unarmed shrubs 

 or trees. Leaves usually opposite, simple or imparipinnate, entire or 

 dentate, exstipulate. Inflorescence simple or compound, centripetal or 

 centrifugal. 



Species about 300, widely spread in the tropical and subtemperate regions of 

 both hemispheres. 



Corolla-tube cylindrical ; lobes imbricate. 



Fruit baccate 1. Jasmintm. 



Fruit hard, 2-valved 2. Scheebera. 



Corolla-tube short ; lobes induplicate-valvate . . 3. Olea. 



Petals nearly or quite f);ee, very narrow . . .4. Linociera. 



1. JASMINUM, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 074. 



Calyx-tube campanulate ; lobes 4, long or short. Corolla hypocrateri 

 form ; tube cylindrical ; limb with 4-10 imbricate lobes. Stamens 2, 

 inserted just below the throat of the corolla-tube; filaments short. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; style variable in length in the same species ; stigma 

 capitate or 2-lobed ; ovules usually 2 in each cell, attached near 

 the base of the dissepiment. Berry didymous or by abortion «imple. 

 Seeds solitary, erect; testa double; albumen 0; cotyledons piano- 



