OLEACEAE. 



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1. Forestierasegregata (Jacq.) 



Krug & Urban. West Indian 

 FoRESTiERA. (Fig. 308.) A gla- 

 brous shrub, or small tree, reach- 

 ing a maximum height of about 

 20° with a trunk 6' in diameter, 

 usually smaller. Leaves oblong to 

 elliptic, firm in texture, l'-3' long, 

 3"-12" wide, variable in shape 

 and size but those of individual 

 bushes nearly all similar, acutish 

 at the apex, narrowed into short 

 petioles, copiously punctate when 

 dry; flowers very small; corolla 

 none; stamens yellowish; drupes 

 oblong, slightly fleshy, about V 

 long and 2" thick, apiculate, some- 

 what oblique, borne on short slen- 

 der pedicels. [Myrica segregata 

 Jacq.; Forestiera porulosa Poir.] 



Rocky hillsides ; very abundant 

 on the south side of St. David's 

 Island and on Cooper's Island ; be- 

 tween Castle Harbor and Harring- 

 ton Sound ; Abbot's ClifE ; Wreck 

 Hill ; Boaz Island. Native. Florida 

 and the northern West Indies. 

 Flowers in autumn and winter. 

 Leaves falling in November. The 

 largest individual observed was seen 



near Bailey's Bay in 1912. No local name has been found associated with this 

 plant. 



3. OLEA [Tourn.] L. 

 Trees, with opposite entire leaves, and small flowers in terminal or 

 axillary racemes or panicles. Calyx 4-cleft or 4-toothed. Corolla nearly rotate, 

 the tube short, the 4 lobes induplicate-valvate. Stamens 2, borne on the corolla- 

 tube, the filaments short, the anthers ovate. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 2 in each 

 cavity; style short; stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Drupe oblong or globose, the 



endocarp bony. [Ancient name of the olive.] 

 About 35 species, natives of warm-temperate 

 and tropical regions of the Old World, the 

 following typical. 



1. Olea europaea L. Olive. (Fig. 309.) 

 An evergreen tree, becoming 60° high or more, 

 with a trunk up to 3^° in diameter, the slen- 

 der twigs densely leafy, angular. Leaves cori- 

 aceous, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, l'-3' long, 

 3"-6" wide, dark green and more or less lepi- 

 dote above, densely silvery-lepidote beneath, 

 acute or obtuse and mucronulate at the apex, 

 narrowed into short petioles ; panicles axillary, 

 shorter than the leaves ; pedicels mostly shorter 

 than the calyx; calyx broadly obconic, about 

 1" long, with 4 minute teeth ; corolla white, 

 about 24" broad, its lobes spreading; drupe 

 oblong or subglobose, black, shining. 



Frequent on hillsides and locally naturalized, 

 flowering in spring, its fruit, sparingly produced 

 in Bermuda, ripe in late summer and autumn. 

 Probably native of the Levant ; widely culti- 

 vated in the Mediterranean region. 



