MACLOSKIE : OLEACE^E. 657 



slightly connate. Corolla sympetalous, hypogynous, its lobes as many as 

 of the calyx, imbricating, often appendaged. Stamens 2-3-whorled, in- 

 serted on the corolla-tube, the outer whorl often more or less abortive, or 

 wanting. Ovary with as many cells as the corolla-lobes, each i-seeded. 

 Fruit usually a berry. 



Species 325, chiefly in tropical countries (including Gtittapercha, the 

 Cow-tree, and others of economic interest). 



POUTERIA Aublet. 



Trees or shrubs, with often short-petioled, small, fascicled leaves, the 

 nerves curving inside the margin. Calyx-leaves 2 + 2, decussate. Corolla 

 with 4 rounded lobes and a tube twice their length. Stamens 4, inserted 

 in the corolla-tube, opposite the corolla lobes ; and also intermediate ob- 

 long staminodes. Ovary hairy, 4-2-celled, with simple style, becoming a 

 hairy or glabrous capsule. 



P. SPLENDENS (DC. sub Lucuma). 



Leaves nearly opposite, or alternate, elliptical, obtuse at both ends, 

 edges revolute, upper surface glabrous, lower silky. Pedicels as long as 

 the petioles, exceeding the flowers. Calyx-leaves rusty-velvety, the outer 

 pair broader. Cetera desunt. 



Patagon. 



Family 88. OLEACE^E. Olive Family. 



Usually shrubs or trees, with opposite, exstipulate leaves (pinnate or 

 simple) ; and regular, sympetalous, 4-merous, rarely 5-6-merous, flowers 

 (sometimes apetalous) ; with 2 epipetalous stamens and a superior, 2- 

 celled, mostly few-seeded ovary. Seeds usually with endosperm. 



Species 500, widely distributed in trop. and temp, regions. 



MENODORA Humb. & Bonp. 



Herbs or undershrubs, with calyx 5~i5-lobed ; corolla broad, 5-6-lobed, 

 and ovary on a fleshy gynobase, becoming a circumscissile capsule. Sta- 

 mens 2, rarely 3. Placenta on septum. 



Species 15, N. W. Amer. southwards through Mex. and the Andes ; 2 

 sp. in S. Africa. (Fig. in Eng. and Prantl, iv, 2, p. 15.) 



