282 OLIVE FAMILY. 



ovate-elliptic, the midrib below (like the branclilets and pedicels) hairy ; 

 fruit shining black. 



* * Inflorescence thyreoid or paniculate and mosthj terminal; calyx 



smooth, or nearly so. 



L. yu/gare, Linn. Privet, Prim. Flowers white (fading reddish) in 

 an ordinary Lilac-like thyrse ; tiie corolla tube flaring and about twice 

 as long as the small calyx ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate ; fruit black. Much 

 used for low hedges and run wikl E. Eu. 



L. Japdnicum, Thunb. (L. Californicum, L. ovalif6lil'm, and 

 Californian Privet). Strong hardy shrub from Japan and C'liina ; 

 cult, for its handsome long-persistent foliage and abundant white flow- 

 ers ; leaves oval ; flowers several to many on slender short branchlets of 

 an elongated panicle ; the corolla tube slender and 3 or 4 times as long 

 as the rather loose truncate calyx. 



5. OLEA, OLIVE. (The classical Latin name.) Flowers small, and 

 in small panicles or corymbs, in spring. 



0. EuropcBa, Linn. Olive of the Levant, planted far S. and on the 

 Pacific coast ; tree with lanceolate or lance-oblong pale entire leaves, 

 whitish-scurfy beneath, and oblong edible oily fruit. 



6. OSMANTHUS. (Greek : perfume and flou-er.) 



0. frdgrans, Lour. Cult, in greenhouses from China, under the name 

 of Olea frXgrans ; shrub with very fragrant white flowers, and thickish 

 ovate or obovate veiny, often denticulate, smooth leaves. 



O. Americanus, Benth. & Hook. Devilwood. Wild along the 

 coast from N. Car., S. ; small tree, with lance-oblong and entire very 

 smooth green leaves (o'-C long), and spherical dark-purple fruit. 



7. CHIONANTHUS, FRINGE TREE. (Name of the Greek words 

 for snmr and hlossom, from the very light and loose panicles of droop- 

 ing snow-white flowers.) 



C. Virginica, Linn. River banks from Penn., S., and planted for 

 ornament ; shrub or low tree, with entire, oval, or obovate leaves (3'-5' 

 long), the lower surface often rather downy ; loose panicles of flowers in 

 late spring or early summer; petals 1' long, and fruit blue-purple with 

 a bloom. 



8. FRAXINUS, ASH. (Classical Latin name.) Timber trees, with 

 light and lough wood, dark-colored buds, and small insignificant flow- 

 ers appearing in spring with or rather before the leaves of the season, 

 from separate buds in the axils of the leaves of the preceding year. 



* Petals present ; flowers polygamous. 



F. Ornus, Linn. Fi.ow^ering Ash of S. Eu., the tree which furnishes 

 manna, not hardy N., sometimes planted S. ; petals 4, either distinct or 

 slightly united, or sometimes only 2, narrow, greenish ; leaflets 5-9, 

 lanceolate or oblong, small. 



* * Pi'tals vxintiny ; floioers generally dimcious (or polygamous in the la.ft) . 



t- Lateral leaflets stalked; calyx evident. 



*H. Frin't terete at the base, winged from the other end (Le.ssons. Fig. 389) ; 

 leaflets 7-9, or sometimes 5, either sparingly toothed or entire. 



F. Americana, Linn. White Ash. Large forest tree of low grounds, 

 furnishing valuable timber ; with ash-gray branches, smooth stalks, ovate 



