Fontanesia. OLEA.CEiE. 39 



longioribus, petalis obovatis albis calyce mullo longioribus, samarft 

 obovata vel oblonga basi retusa apice acutiuscuU vei retusa 5. lc. Lam. 

 III. tab. 2!2. 



Hab. in dumosi.s regionis inferioris et montanae, Anatolia australis in LyciA 

 etPaniphylia (Heldr! Bourg!), Ciiicia a Mersina usque ad Gulek ;3800' (Ky! 

 Bal!), CappadociA (Tcliih!), prope Marasch (Haussk!), Syria boreali in monte 

 Amano (Ky!) et Cassio (Labill! Boissl), Anatolia bor. in Troade (Tchih ) et ad 

 Samsun (VVied!). Flor. Apr. 



Frutex 10-20-pedalis ramulis crebre foliosis, fructus 3-4 linea.s longus. 



Ar. Geogr. Sicilia orieutalis. 



FRAXINUS (L. Gen. H60). 



Flores polygami vel dioici. Galyx 4-fidus vel nullus. Petala 4 bina- 

 tim basi cohaerentia vel nulla. Ovarium biloculare seplo valvis con- 

 trario, loculis uniovulatis, ovulis pendulis, stylus brevis. Samara com- 

 pressa oblongo-vel lanceolato-spathulata compressa in alam producta 

 abortu unilocularis monosperma. — Arbores vel arbusculse. 



Sect. L Ornus Pers. Ench. II, p. 605. — Flores calyce 

 corollaque preediti. 



1. F. Ornus (L. Sp. 1510) arborea, foliis syriantliiis 3-4-jugis 

 foliolis petiolulatis denticulatis lanceolatis vci ovato-rotundatis acu- 

 minatis glabris vel subttjs ad nervum barbatis, florum racemis ex 

 axillis supremis et terminalibus pedunculatis paniculam terminalem 

 foliis breviorem formantibus. petalis linearibus calyce multoties lon- 

 gioribus, samaris angusle lineari-lanceolatis ulrinijue altenuatis vel 

 subspathulato-truncatis retusis 5. Ic. FI. Graec. tab. i). — Rchb. Ic. 

 tab. 31. — F. rotundifolia Lam. Dict. II, p. 546 (forma foliolis rotun- 

 datis). — F. diversifolia Rocbel Rann. — Ornns Enropea Pers. 

 Ench. l, p. 9. — F. Cappador.ica Juss. herb. ex K. Koch. Dendrol. — 

 Fr. millelacuum C. Koch Linn. XXIII, p. 597. 



Hab. in regione monlana Graecinc. T:- /getus (Boi.ssf), Malevo (Orph. Fl. Gr. 

 exs. 706!), Parnassus (Sibth.), Olvnipus Thessalus 5(XK)' (Orph. Fl. Gr. exs. 

 705!), Macedonia et Thracia 0-2WKV (Gri.seb., Friv!), Bithynia (Thirkel), lonia 

 in niontibus Smvrna; et in Sipylo (Boiss ! Bal!). Cilicia ad Tauri radices 

 3800'-4r)0()' (Ky! Bal !), Libanus prope Eden (Reyg!). Vnljr. Gr^cis Meleos. 



Ar. Geogr. Hispania in regno Valentino, Helvetia et Gerniania au.strales, 

 Italia, Dahnatia, Bosnia, regio Danubialis. 



Sect. II. Fraxinaster. — Flores nudi calyce corollaque destituli. 



2. F. excelsior (L. Sp. 1509) arborea, gcmmis nigris, foliis 

 hysteranlhiis 4-6-jugis magnis subsessilibus lanceolato-oblongis utrin- 



