162 OLEACEAE. 



CHIONANTHUS. Fringe Tree. 



Large shrubs with white wood with about I ring of small 

 vernal ducts, broad radial or flame-shaped wood-parenchyma 

 pattern in summer, and very fine medullary rays ; more or less 

 4-sided or 4-lined rather stout warty twigs ; compressed or an- 

 gled homogeneous pale pith ; opposite raised and often decur- 

 rent crescent-shaped leaf-scars with a crescent-shaped aggregate 

 bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; round-ovoid solitary sessile buds 

 with a number of pungently pointed exposed scales ; simple 

 rather large petioled entire leaves; perfect or polygamous 4- 

 merous flowers with long white nearly separate corolla lobes, in 

 more or less leafy axillary clusters ; and purple drupes. 

 Leaves acuminate, glabrate. C. virginica.. 



Leaves not acuminate: petioles hairy. C. retusa. 



OSMANTHUS. Fragrant Olive. 



Evergreen shrubs or small trees with pinkish close wood 

 with few uniform minute ducts in a flame-like pattern and very 

 fine medullary rays ; rather slender somewhat compressed twigs ; 

 roundish continuous pith ; opposite rather small shield-shaped 

 slightly raised leaf-scars with a crescent-shaped compound bun- 

 dle-trace ; no stipule-scars ; spreading ovoid or conical sessile 

 buds, sometimes superposed, with 2 exposed scales ; rather large 

 leathery lanceolate petioled leaves ; small sometimes imperfect 

 openly conical gamopetalous white flowers in small axillary pani- 

 cles ; and small i-seeded drupes. 



Leaves pointed at both ends and entire. O. americanus. 



Leaves blunt at base, serrulate : petiole channeled. O. fragrans. 



LIGUSTRUM. Privet. 



Deciduous or half-evergreen shrubs with pale or smoky 

 wood with small diffused ducts and fine medullary rays ; rather 

 slender roundish or compressed twigs ; roundish homogeneous 

 pale pith ; somewhat raised opposite roundish or transversely 

 elliptical leaf-scars with one compound bundle-trace; no stipule- 

 scars ; solitary sessile ovoid buds with about 2 pairs of exposed 

 scales ; simple entire very short-stalked moderately small leaves ; 



