164 ADELIA ADENOCARFUS 



ADELIA. OLEACE^. 



A group of New World shrubs, of which two species are occasionally 

 cultivated in botanical collections. They have some affinity with the 

 olive. Leaves deciduous, opposite ; flowers small, greenish, without 

 petals, unisexual; the sexes often on separate plants. The fruit, which 

 is oblong or egg-shaped and pulpy, I have never seen produced in this 

 country, and the flowers but rarely. Even in their absence the two 

 species described below are easily distinguished from each other by the 

 short-stalked, downy leaves of ligustrina; and the long, narrow, much 

 tapered, smooth leaves of acuminata. They grow in any ordinary soil, 

 and are easily propagated by late summer 'cuttings. The genus is, 

 perhaps, better known by Poiret's name, FORESTIERA. 



A. ACUMINATA, Michaux. SWAMP PRIVET. 



(Forestiera acuminata, Poiret ; Borya acuminata, Willdenow^) 



A deciduous shrub, usually 4 to 8 ft. high, or a small tree, sometimes 20 to 30 

 ft. high in a wild state, of spreading habit ; branches slender, the short ones 

 occasionally spine-tipped. Leaves lanceolate or oval-lanceolate, \\ to 2^ ins. 

 long, ^ to | in. wide at the middle, tapering gradually to both ends"; shallowly 

 toothed from the middle to the apex ; stalk J to \ in. long. Male flowers 

 clustered in Small stalkless tufts ; female ones oln branched stalks ; both 

 minute, greenish, and of no beauty. Fruit cylindrical, pointed, \ in. long, 

 purple. 



Native of the S.E. United States ; introduced in 1812. A shrub of botanical 

 interest only, and privet-like appearance. 



A. LIGUSTRINA, Michaux. 



(Forestiera ligustrina, Poiret ; Borya ligustrina, Willdenow.") 



A deciduous shrub, up to 10 ft. in height, forming a wide bush with slender 

 branches, downy when young, often becoming spine-tipped. Leaves oval or 

 slightly obovate, f to if ins. long, to f in. wide ; tapered at both ends, 

 shallowly toothed all round except near the base ; dull green and smooth 

 above, paler and downy beneath ; stalks j- in. or less long. Flowers green, 

 inconspicuous, produced from the twigs of the preceding year ; the males in 

 dense stalkless clusters ; females fewer, on short spurs. Fruit \ in. long, egg- 

 shaped, blue-black. 



Native of the S.E. United States ; introduced in 1812. 



ADENOCARPUS DECORTICANS, Boissier. LEGUMINOS/E. 



(Garden, Nov. 27, 1886.) 



A deciduous shrub of rather gaunt habit, sending out long horizontal 

 branches, and reaching 8 to 10 ft. in height in this country. Leaves 

 trifoliolate, very crowded, i in. or less long ; stalk very slender and downy, 

 ^.to i- in, long. Leaflets J to J in. in length, y 1 ^ in. wide, the margins 

 usually rolled inwards. Flowers golden yellow, about the size and shape 



