264 | WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
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Orper LV. OLEA’CEA. (Orive Famty.) 
fees or shrubs with opposite simple or odd-pinnate leaves and perfect and complete or 
sometimes apetalous and dicecious , in terminal and axillary racemes or panicles. 
Calyz 4-lobed or 4- — mostly Dersistent, rarely aban Corolla igre or of 4 dis- 
ct petals—so tin, y vi Fruit 
met most Stamens u: : 
various—baccate, priser cae ns or samaroid r—eecily and by abortion often 
l-celled and 1-~2-seeded. Seeds pendulous, mostly album’ 
A small but interesting Order. Olives and Olive oil are agen by the genus (Olea) Oe) 
which is the type of the family —the pericarp, in quand ef te mas yielding the.0il....7ba 
Manna of the aig is derived from a species of Ash. 
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