Fraxinus.] jasminace^e. 215 



long, imbricate in the bud. Stamens longer. Fruit linear, about f in. long, 

 including the wing, about 1| lines broad in the broadest part, and always 

 emarginate at the top. 



In woods in the Happy Valley, near the waterfall, Champion, Hance ; also near Amoy, 

 Fortune. I had formerly thought that this might be a variety of the widely spread F. Jlori- 

 bunda, Wall., but a closer examination shows that it differs in the calyx, which is twice as 

 large, and not deeply lobed as in that species, and in the reticulation of the leaflets, besides 

 the constantly notched fruit, which appears to be always acute in F. floribunda. 



2. OLE A, Linn. 



Mowers often polygamous. Corolla 4-lobed, with a short tube, or rarely 

 none ; the lobes usually imbricate in the bud'. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 pendu- 

 lous ovules in each cell. Fruit a drupe. Seed usually 1, pendulous, with a 

 fleshy albumen. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves entire, coriaceous. Flowers small, 

 in axillary racemes, panicles, or clusters, or, in some African species, in termi- 

 nal panicles. 



A genus comprising several African and Asiatic or Mediterranean species, with one from 

 N. America, and another from New Zealand. 



1. O. marginata, Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 330. A holly-like 

 evergreen shrub, apparently dioecious. Leaves chiefly near the ends of the 

 branches, elliptical-oblong, obtuse or scarcely acuminate, 1\ to near 5 in. 

 long, narrowed into a stout petiole of f to 1 in., thickly coriaceous, smooth, 

 and shining above, the midrib alone prominent on the under side. Panicles 

 dense, minutely pubescent, not longer than the petiole. Lower bracts linear, 

 the upper ones minute. Calyx obtusely 4-lobed, about \ line long. Corolla- 

 tube about 1 line ; the lobes broad, obtuse, quite glabrous, and imbricate in 

 the bud. Stamens rather longer. Ovary, in the flowers examined, all small 

 and abortive. The female specimens are in fruit only. Drupes oblong, about 

 \ in. long, with a woody putamen. 



Near the top of the waterfall in the Happy Valley, Champion ; also Hance. Not received 

 from elsewhere, nor yet is it at all like any other Asiatic species known to me. On the other 

 hand, it very closely resembles the N. American 0. americana, Linn., from which our speci- 

 mens only show some slight differences in the shape of the bracts, in the glabrous corolla- 

 lobes, and in the longer fruit. 



The O.fragrans, Thunb., and 0. aquifolium, Sieb. and Zucc, are much cultivated in gar- 

 dens, but are not stated to have established themselves in the island in a wild state. 



3. LIG-USTRUM, Linn. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Corolla 4-lobed with a long or short tube, the 

 lobes usually valvate in the bud. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in 

 each cell. Stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a globular 2-celled berry. Seeds usually 

 solitary in each cell, pendulous, with a fleshy or cartilaginous albumen. — 

 Shrubs. Leaves entire, often coriaceous. Flowers rather small, white, in 

 terminal panicles. 



A small genus, ranging over the mountains of Asia, from the Himalaya to Japan, with one 

 European species. 



1. L. sinense, Lour.; DC. Prod. viii. 294. A shrub, with slender pu- 

 bescent spreading branches. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1 to 2 in. 



