XLVIII. OLEA'CEJE: O'RNUS. 



653 



O'rnus amencana Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836. 



1269. O. <e.) amerfcana. 



3 O. (E.) AMERICANA Pursh. The American Flowering Ash. 



Identification. Pursh Sept., 1. p. 9. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 57 



Si/nonymcs. F. americana Linn. Sp. 1510. ? ; " "'- - 



Engraving. Our fig. 1269. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves 



with 2 5 pairs of oblong 



or ovate - acuminated, 



shining, serrated leaflets, 



each 3 in. to 5 in. long, 



and 2 in. broad, and hav- 

 ing the larger veins rather 



villous, glaucous, and 



paler beneath, the odd 



one rather cordate. Flow- 

 ers with petals, disposed 



in terminal panicles. 



Branches brownish grey. 



Buds brown. Samara 



narrow, obtuse, mucro- 



nate. (Don's Mill.) A 



tree. North America. 



Height 30 ft. to 40 ft. 



Introd. in 1820. Flowers 



white; April and May. 



A more robust-growing 

 plant than O. europa?"a. 



3f 4. O. FLORIBU'NDA G. Don. The abundant-flowered Flowering Ash. 



Identification. G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit., p. 12. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 57. 

 Synonymc. Fraxinus floribunda D. Don Prod. FL Nep. p. 106. 

 Engravings. Wall. PI. Rar. Asiat., 2. t. 277. ; and our Jig. 1270. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves with 2 3 pairs of elliptic-oblong, acuminated, 

 serrated, glabrous, stalked leaflets, and an odd one, varying much in figure, 

 the terminal, or odd, 

 one the largest. Pa- 

 nicles terminal, com- 

 pound, thyrsoid. 

 Samara linear, or 

 narrow - spathulate, 

 obtuse, and entire. 

 Bark ash-coloured, 

 dotted. Branchlets 

 compressed. (Don's 

 Mill.) A deciduous 

 tree. Nepal. Height 

 30 ft. to 40 ft. In- 

 trod. 1822. Flowers 

 white ; April. 



There was a plant 

 of this species in the 

 Horticultural Socie- 

 ty's Garden, against 

 the conservative wall, 

 which died in the 

 spring of 1836. mo . o.florib6nda. 



O. stridta Swt. ; -Fraxinus striata Hose, Don's Mill. 4. p. 57. ; is a native of 

 North America, said to have been introduced in 1818, but we have not seen 

 the plant nor a figure of it. 



