726 FLORA. 



4 . CHIONA'NTHUS L. 



Shrubs or small trees, with opposite entire leaves, and complete conspicuous 

 white flowers, in large loose panicles from the axils of the upper leaves of the pre- 

 ceding season. Calyx small, 4-cleft or 4-parted, inferior, persistent. Corolla oi 

 4 linear petals, slightly united at the very base. Stamens 2 (rarely 3), inserted 

 on the base of the corolla ; filaments very short. Ovules 2 in each cavity of the 

 ovary, pendulous; style short; stigma thick, emarginate or slightly 2-lobed. Fruit 

 a usually i-seeded drupe. [Greek, snow-blossom.] About 3 species, the following 

 of southeastern N. Am., the others Chinese. 



i. Chionanthus Virginica L. FRINGE-TREE. (I. F. f. 2845.) A shrub, or 

 small tree, the young twigs, petioles and lower surfaces of the leaves pubescent, or 

 sometimes glabrate. Leaves oval, oblong or some of them obovate, rather thick, 

 narrowed at the base, 7 -I 5 cm> l n ! panicles drooping, sometimes 2.5 dm. long, 

 usually with some sessile leaflike bracts, its branches and the pedicels very slen- 

 der; petals 2.5 cm. long or more, 2 mm. wide or less; drupe oblong or globose- 

 oblong, nearly black, 1-1.6 cm. long, the pulp thin. In moist thickets, Del. and 

 southern Penn. to Fla. and Tex. May-June. 



5. LIGUSTRUM L. 



Shrubs or small trees, with opposite entire leaves, and small white complete 

 flowers in terminal thyrses or panicles. Calyx small, truncate or 4-toothed, infe- 

 rior. Corolla gamopetalous, funnelform, its tube mostly short, the limb 4-lobed, 

 the lobes induplicate-valvate in the bud. Stamens 2, inserted on the tube of the 

 corolla; filaments short. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 2 in each cavity, pendulous; 

 stigma thickened. Fruit a i-3-seeded mostly globose berry. [The classical Latin 

 name.] About 35 species, natives of the Old World. 



i. Ligustrum vulgare L. PRIVET. PRIM. (I. F. f. 2846.) A shrub, the 

 branches long and slender. Leaves firm, tardily deciduous, glabrous, lanceolate or 

 oblong, short-petioled, 1.5-5 cm - l n g> obscurely veined; panicles dense, short, 

 minutely pubescent; flowers about 6 mm. broad; pedicels very short; stamens 

 included ; berries black, 4-6 mm. in diameter. Escaped from cultivation, Me. and 

 Ont. to Penn. and N. Car. Native of Europe and Asia. June-July. 



Family 2. LOGANIACEAE Dumort. 

 Logania Family. 



Herbs, shrubs, vines or some tropical genera trees, with opposite or 

 verticillate simple stipulate leaves, or the leaf-bases connected by a stipu- 

 lar line or membrane, and regular perfect 4~5-parted flowers. Calyx infe- 

 rior, the tube campanulate, sometimes short or none, the segments imbri- 

 cated, at least in the bud. Corolla gamopetalous, funnelform, campanu- 

 late, or rarely rotate. Stamens inserted on the tube or throat of the 

 corolla; anthers 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent ; pollen-grains 

 simple. Disk usually none. Ovary superior, 2-celled (rarely 3-5-celled) ; 

 ovules anatropous or amphitropous. Fruit a 2-valved capsule in our 

 species. Embryo small, usually straight ; endosperm copious ; radicle ter- 

 ete or conic. About 30 genera and 400 species, widely distributed in 

 warm and tropical regions. 



Style 4-cleft; woody vine; flowers large yellow. i. Gelsemium. 

 Style simple, 2-lobed or 2-divided with a common stigma; herbs. 



Corolla-lobes valvate; capsule didyrnous or 2-lobed; leaves broad. 



Style simple, jointed; spike simple. 2. Spigeha. 



Style 2-divided below; spikes cymose. 3. Cynoctonum. 



Corolla-lobes imbricate; capsule subglobose; leaves linear. 4. Polypremum, 



i. GELSEMIUM Juss. 



Glabrous vines; leaves opposite, or rarely whorled, their bases connected by a 

 stipular line; flowers in axillary and terminal nearly sessile cymes, the pedicels 

 scaly-bracteolate. Calyx deeply 5 -parted, the segments imbricated. Corolla fun. 



