Oleacecz L igustrum. 



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foliage. And there are white- and yellow-berried and gold and 

 silver variegated varieties, as well as a weeping form. 



2. L. Japonicum. An evergreen robust-growing shrub with 

 coriaceous larger and broader leaves than the foregoing and 

 slightly fragrant rather larger flowers. There is a variety with 

 handsome variegated foliage. 



3. L. Sinensis. An evergreen or quasi-evergreen shrub with 

 slender pubescent branches and ovate-lanceolate leaves shining 

 above and hairy beneath. Flowers small, white. China. 



4. L. lacidum, syn. L. ovalifolium. A pretty evergreen 

 shrub with oval, ovate-lanceolate, elliptical or nearly rotundate 

 leaves and white flowers. Native of Japan, and very near and 

 probably a variety of L. Japonicum. 



5. L. coriaceum. A very distinct evergreen species of recent 

 introduction, with dense glossy dark green coriaceous ovate- 

 oblong obtuse leaves. 



4. FRAXINUS (including Ornus). 



Trees with unequally pinnate deciduous leaves and polyga- 

 mous or dioecious flowers in dense axillary clusters. Calyx 4- 

 lobed or none. Corolla 4-lobed or none. Stamens 2. Fruit 

 a flattened 1- or 2-celled 

 samara or key, winged at 

 the tip ; cells 1 -seeded. 

 About thirty species are 

 known, inhabiting Eu- 

 rope, North Asia, and 

 North America, where 

 they are most numerous. 

 Fraxinus is the Latin 

 name of the common 

 .Ash. 



1. F. Ornus, syn. 

 Or nus Europ cea (tig. 

 164). Flowering Ash. 

 This is so called on ac- 

 count of the conspicuous 

 clustered panicles of pure 

 white petaliferous flowers pendulous at the extremities of the 

 branches. A handsome small tree with somewhat hairy leaves, 

 composed of 7 to 9 pairs of lanceolate shortly petiolulate leaf- 

 lets. South of Europe. 



Fig. 164. Fraxinus Ornus. (Nat. size.) 



