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OLE ACE AE. 



OLEA. Olive. 

 (Family Oleaceae). 



Small trees, sometimes with 

 spiny twigs: evergreen. Twigs 

 slender, more or less 4-lined from 

 the nodes, or quadrangular, mic- 

 roscopically peltate-scurfy like the 

 buds and the lower leaf-surface. 

 Buds solitary, or occasionally 2 

 superposed, sessile, ovoid, naked 

 but the valvate outer leaves simu- 

 lating scales. Leaf-scars broadly 

 crescent-shaped, little raised, 

 small: bundle-trace 1, transverse: 

 stipule-scars lacking. Leaves 

 simple, entire. 



Winter-character reference: - 

 Olea europaea Oleaster (0. Oleas- 

 ter). Bosemann, 49. Malpighi 

 figured the 'buds of the olive as 

 early as 1687, Opera Omnia, p. 

 22, pi. 9. 



1. Spiny: leaves oblong, gray beneath. O. europaea Oleaster. 

 Unarmed: leaves lanceolate, acute. 2. 



2. Leaves gray beneath. (Common olive). O. europaea. 

 Golden-scurfy. (Golden-leaved olive). 



(1). O. europaea chrysophylla. 



