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OLEACEAE. 



SCHREBEBA. 



(Family Oleaceae). 



Tender trees: deciduous. Twigs 

 slender, subterete though a little 

 compressed and sometimes with 

 slight decurrent lines at the nodes; 

 pith moderate, round, white, 

 spongily chambered at the nodes 

 but disappearing between them. 

 Buds small, with 2 overlapping 

 ciliate scales. Leaf-scars opposite, 

 obtusely shield-shaped, somewhat 

 raised: bundle-trace 1, compound, 

 crescent-shaped: stipule-scars lack- 

 ing. (Nathusia). 



The name of the genus Schreb- 

 era, which is botanically inter- 

 mediate between Forsythia and 

 Syringa, illustrates, like Jamesia, 

 the conservative retention of 

 names that have had often earlier 

 but transient use. Nathusia is 

 sometimes taken as the proper 



name for the present genus because the name Schrebera, first 



given it in 1798, had been used as early as 1791 for another 



genus not now considered to be tenable. 



Twigs very minutely gray-puberulent. S. Saundersiae. 



