Class II.— DIANDBIA 



Order I. — Monogtnia. 



A. Corolla inferior. *^ 



f Fruit a drupe or nut, 



8. OLEA. Z. (Olive.) 



Calix small, 4-t()othed; tube of the corolla 

 short, border 4-cleft, lamina more or less ovate. 

 Lobes of the stigma emars^inate. Drupe 2- 

 seeded; one of the seeds usually abortive. f 



Leaves evergreen, very rarely alternate; flowers race- 

 mose or paniculate, axillary or terminal, in O.fragnms thg 

 flowers simply ai^;-gregate . 



Species, i. O. .imericana. Flowers dioicous. Grows 

 near the sea-coast. Fruit acerb. 



9. CHIONANTHUS. L. (Frin^etree.) 



Calix 4-parted. Corolla deeply 4-parted.. la- 

 mina long ar.d linear. Anthers nearly sessile 

 on the tube. Drupe 1 -seeded, ^ut striated. 



Small trees with simple leaves, flowers resembling 

 those of the Ornus^ panicled, or more rarely corymf ose; 

 panicles sometimes bracteate, axillary and terminal, tri- 

 fid, or trichotomous, sometimes triandrous. Fruit and 

 flowers pendulous. 



Species. 1. C. Virginica Most abundant near the sea- 

 coast, where it arrives at acouslderable maefnitude. Near 

 Port Elizabeth, New-Jersey, my friend, Z. Collins, esq. saw 

 a tree of the Chionmitluis near 30 feet hi<^h. Persoon re^ 

 ma.^ks that the corolla of this species varies from 4, 5, to 

 6 cleft, and with 4 stamens! 



t Nut bilocular, one of the cells often obliterated. Gtertner, 

 B2 



