56 STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE. 



ORNAMENTAL VARIETIES. 



Olea Apetala. Olive without petals, has elliptical oval leaves, 

 quite entire. The flowers, without petals, as its name indicates, 

 are disposed in bunches, and are very beautiful. Native of 

 Holland. 



Olea Americana. Olive tree of America. It is found in the 

 Carolinas and Florida. It is an erect plant, with lanceolate 

 leaves, elliptical, rather oblong, pointed, smooth, entire, solid, 

 glossy on the upper face, and of a fine yellowish-green. It blos- 

 soms in June; its flowers are arranged in close bunches; its 

 bracts are persistent, united, and small. 



Olea Capensis. Olive tree of the Cape of Good Hope. Very 

 dwarf and bushy plant, two feet high. Its branches are 

 rough, whitish, tetragon. Leaves opposite, oval, rounded, very 

 large in comparison with those of the European varieties; quite 

 entire, solid, stiff, of a fine dark and gloomy green on the 

 upper face, and pale beneath. It blooms at different times. 

 Small white flowers, disposed in elegant and showy divergent 

 bunches. One variety only, with elliptical wavy leaves and 

 green pendicles, is cultivated. 



Olea Emarginata. Tree grows in India to a height of sixty 

 feet. Branches are opposite, gray, and striated; has the leaves 

 opposite, oval, rounded, notched at the summit, quite entire, 

 solid, wrinkled, of a fine lively green on both faces, the pendicle 

 short and wrinkled. Flowers larger than any other of this 

 species, bell-shaped, in four small divisions, beautifully disposed 

 in terminal bunches. 



Olea Exasperata. Rough olive tree, blooms in May. Orig- 

 inally from the Cape of Good Hope. Bushy plant of about 

 five feet high; erect and dark branches; leaves opposite, 

 oblong, obtuse with a point, quite entire, solid, glabrous, five 

 or six inches long; numerous white flowers in trichotomous 

 and terminal flowery tufts. 



Olea Excelsa. Olive tree of Madeira. Small plant, having 

 an erect, gray, and branching stem ; leaves lanceolate, elliptical, 

 pointed and not smooth like the Olea Americana, but with 

 the edges reflected, quite entire, solid, shining, of a dark green 

 color on their upper face. Flowers in dense bunches, the 

 bracts leafy, the flowers cup-shaped and persistent, the higher 

 caducous, large, leafy. 



