Oleaceae. 



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FONTANESIA. 



(Family Oleaceae). 



Shrubs: deciduous. Twigs 

 slender, 4-angled, the bark soon 

 fibrous-shredding: pith greenish, 

 rounded, continuous. Buds small, 

 solitary, sessile, compressed ovoid, 

 with 2 or 3 pairs of pointed 

 scales. Leaf-scars opposite, short- 

 shield-shaped, small, somewhat 

 raised, ciliate: bundle-trace 1, half- 

 round: stipule-scars lacking. 



Winter-character reference to 

 Fontanesia phillyraeoides : 

 Schneider, f. 205. 



Fontanesias, like privets, are 

 rather conspicuous" among shrubs 

 grown in the northern states in 

 showing no autumnal coloration 

 but holding their bright preen 

 foliage well through the fall, a 

 habit that dictates caution in un- 

 skilfully blending them in pro- 



miscuous planting. 



Twigs and buds glabrous, brown. 



F. phillyraeoides. 



