XLVin. OLEA'CEiE : o'rnus. 



653 



AMERICA NA Piirsh. Tlie American Flowering Ash. 



Don's Mill.. 4. p. 57. 

 1510. ? ; F. d'rnus americina Lodd. Cat. ed. 183G. 



1269. O. (e.) americhna. 



3 0. (e.) 



IdenHftcalion. Tursh Sept., 1. p. 0. 

 Siinoihiiiics. F. amei-icana Linn. Sp 

 Eiigiaving. Out fig. 12G9. 



Spec. Char., S(C. Leaves 



with 25 pair.s 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 IVIay. 



A more robust-growing 

 plant than O. europgea. 



^ 4. 0. floribu'nda G. Don. The abundant-flowered Flowering Ash. 



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

 Synonyme. fraxinus floribunda D. Don Prod. Fl. Ncp. p. lOG. 

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



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

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

 1 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 J April. 



I There was a plant 

 'f this species in the 

 i lorticultural Socie- 

 y's Garden, against 

 lie conservative wall, 

 'hich died in the 

 Ipring of 1836. 



1270. O. floiibinda. 



j O. striata Swt. ; Fraxinus striata Bosc, Don's Mill. 4. p. 57. ; is a native of 

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

 lie plant nor a figure of it. 



