Pitas e. COCCKVI. 
OLEA eee. AL A. 
Petal-le/s Olive. 
CLASS Il. ORDER I. 
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. “Two Chives. _ One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
op 
abhi ore > penmionalic, erecto, deci- P| wees i four-toothed, erect, deciduous. 
uum, 
Mites monopetala, infundibuliformis; tubns 
cylindraceus, longitudine calycis ; ‘limbus 
qundvigastehs vee) laciniis fubovatis. 
Sramina. Filamenta duo, Sepotits, fubulata, 
erette. ; 
er one 1e petal, funnel-fhaped; tube cylin- 
divided, flat; fegments neariy egg-tha 
D> bee Two threads, oppofite, awl- thaped, 
brevia. Antheree thort. Tips upright. 
PisTILLUM. Sores fabrotunidbl Stylus - Poiwran. Seed-bud roundifh. Shaft fimple, 
fimplex, breviffimus. Sti tigma bifidum, | very fhort. Summit —— thickith ; 
ts ah lerheise emarginatis. - : clefts notched at the en 
PERICARPIUM. Drupa fubovata, glabra, uni. | Seep-vessexr. A _ pulpy bares rather egg- 
mooth, one-celled. 
a 
SEED. Se put chlone Rie thaped, rough. 
Semen. Nux ovato-oblonga, rugofa. es Ys | 
sPecierc CH ARAGIE:. 
cal, the length of the cup; border four- ~~ 
1% 
Catyrx. P , tuba bulatum, | EMPALEMENT. Cup one- -leafed, tubular, soll 
Olea foliis elipticis, 4 floribus racemofis, oe | Olive, with eliptically-fthaped —e flowers in 
e lon. fas Pe er 
g bunches without petal 
deans TO THE PLATE. 
. A Flow magnified. 
n : Thefeee ih gree th the Chives expofed, onabeh acd. 
© 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified. 
= A half ripe Berry. 
5. The fame cut tranfverfely, 
Rime. ames 
ea prefent figure reprefents a plant a native of ] 
Ocean ; but, we have great ee to* fara i aoe “ 
which it is here — Soe ee 
a new one. 
at ew oat. in the Pacific 
elie hi o the pang under 
— sernling 
added in the year 1791; having been 
~ Colonel Paterfos; 
