600 ORDER 99. OLEACE^E. 



grant, tho fertile and barren on separate trees. Drupea larger than peas, violet- 

 purple, dryish. Apr., May. 



8. VISIA^NIA, DC. (Dedicated to Visiani, Professor of botany at 

 Patavia.) Calyx, corolla and stamens as in Olea ; fruit obovate or ob- 

 Jong, with a very thin pulp, and thin, papery shell. Trees with oppo- 

 site, entire Ivs. and loose, terminal, many-flowered panicles. (Olea, 

 Wall.) 



V. paniculata DC. Lvs. ovate, acute, entire, glabrous ; panicle glabrous ; 

 bracts deciduous ; style club-shaped ; fruit obliquely ovate. Fls. small, white, 

 numerous, in large naked panicles. Lvs. coriaceous, 3' long, petioles 9".-)- China. 



9. FORESTIE'RA, Poir. (Dedicated to M. Forestier, a French phy- 

 sician.) Dioecious, apetalous ; flower buds in the axils of the last year's 

 leaves, scaly with roundish, thin scales, and many-flowered ; $ flowers 

 sessile, crowded, each of the 2 stamens surrounded by a caducous calyx 

 of 4 oblong, minute sepals ; ? flowers pedicellate, umbellate ; calyx 

 obsolete ; ovary tipped with a slender style and a capitate stigma, 2- 

 celled, cells 2-ovuled ; drupe with 1 suspended seed. Shrubs or small 

 trees, with opposite, simple Ivs. and minute fls. (Adelia MX. Borya Ph.) 



1 F. actiminata Poir. Lvs. glabrous, green both sides, lance-elliptic, acuminate 

 at each end, serrulate above, on slender petioks ; fruit an obloug-cylindric, pointed, 

 fleshy, glaucous-purple drupe. In sluggish streams, 111. (opposite St. Louis!) to 

 Ga. (Macon, Mettauer!). Shrub 10 to 18f high. Lvs. thin, 2 to 3' long, petiole 

 1'. Mar., Apr. (A. acuminata MX. F. ligustrina Gr.) 



2 F. ligustrina Poir. Lvs. ovate and oblong, attenuate to the petiole, obtuse, cori- 

 aceous, serrulate, margins slightly revolute, glabrous above, midvein sparsely pu- 

 bescent beneath ; staminate flowers in small, lateral, globular clusters (fertile plant 

 not seen). Near Savannah (Feay). Shrub 10 15f? high, with slender branches 

 and branchlets. Lvs. with the petioles 1 to 2' by 6 to 10", reticulate, not dotted, 

 beneath. 



3 F. porulosa Poir. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, sessile, coriaceous, margins 

 involute, lower surface dotted (porulous) and ferruginous. On the sea-coast, 

 Georgia and Florida (Pursh.) Leaves all opposite. (A. porulosa MX.) 



