OLEACEAE 13 i 



CHIONANTHUS. Fringe Tree. 



Large shrubs with white wood with about 1 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 

 angled homogeneous pale pith; opposite raised and often decur- 

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

 gate bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; round-ovoid superposed 

 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 com- 

 pound bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; spreading ovoid or coni- 

 cal sessile buds, sometimes superposed, with 2 exposed scales; 

 rather large leathery lanceolate petioled leaves; small some- 

 times 1 imperfect openly conical gamopetalous white flowers in 

 small axillary panicles; and small 1-seeded drupes. 



1. Leaves pointed at both ends. 2. 



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



2. Leaves entire. O. americanus. 

 Leaves holly-like. O. Aquifolium. 



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- 



