326 OLEACEAE. 



Coppices and rocky scrub-lauds, Audroa, New Providence, Great Guana Cay, 

 Great Exuma, Eleutliera, Watliug's, Atwood Cay, Great Ragged Island, Fortune, 

 Aclilin's and Croolted Islands : — Cuba ; Hispaniola. Recorded by Coker as Macreightia 

 caritaea A. DC, and referred by Hitcbcock to Diospyros halesioides Griseb. 

 I'eatbeh-eed. Boa-wood. 



Order 3. GENTIANALES. 



Herbs, shrubs, vines or trees. Leaves opposite, or rarely alternate. 

 Flowers regular. Corolla gamopetalous, rarely polypetalous, nerved, want- 

 ing in Forestiera of the Oleaceae. Stamens mostly borne on the lower part 

 of the corolla when this is present, as many as its lobes or fewer and alter- 

 nate with them. Ovaries 2, distinct, or 1 with 2 cavities (rarely more), or 

 2 placentae. 



a. stamens (usually 2), fewer tiian the corolla-lobes, 



or corolla none. Fam. 1. Oleaceae. 



b. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes. 

 Stigmas distinct ; juice not milky ; ovary 1, compound. 



Ovary 2-celled ; leaves stipulate, or their bases con- 

 nected by a stipular line. Fam. 2. Loganiaceae. 

 Ovary 1-celled ; leaves not stipulate. 



Leaves opposite, rarely verticillate ; corolla-lobes 



convolute or imbricated in the bud. Fam. 3. Gextianaceae. 



Leaves tufted or alternate ; corolla-lobes Indupli- 

 cate-valvate in the bud ; Bahama species 



aquatic. Fam. 4. Me>tanthaceae. 



Stigmas united ; juice milky ; ovaries usually 2. 



Styles united ; stamens distinct ; pollen of simple 



grains. 

 Styles distinct ; stamens mostly monadelphous ; pol- 

 len-grains united into waxy masses. Fam. 6. Asclepiadaceab. 



Fam. 5. Apocynaceaeu 



Family 1. OLEACEAE Lindl. 



Olive Family. 



Trees or shrubs (a few genera almost herbaceous) with opposite or 

 rarely alternate, simple or pinnate, estipulate leaves and regular 2— i-parted 

 flowers in panicles, cymes or fascicles. Calyx inferior, usually small, some- 

 times none. Corolla various, or none. Stamens 2-4; filaments separate; 

 anthers ovate, oblong or linear, 2-eelled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. 

 Ovary superior, 2-celled ; ovules few in each cavity, anatropous or amphit- 

 ropous; style usually short or none. Fruit a capsule, samara, berry or 

 drupe. Endosperm fleshy, horny or wanting; embryo straight, rather 

 large; radicle usually short. About 21 genera and 525 species, of wide 

 distrilDution in temperate and tropical regions. 



Corolla none; fruit a drupe. 1. Forestiera. 

 Corolla large, conspicuous. 



Corolla salverform ; fruit fleshy, didymous. 2. Jasmmum. 



Petals distinct ; fruit drupaceous. 3. Mayepea. 



1, FORESTIERA Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 2: 664. 1812. 



Shrubs or trees, with opposite deciduous simple leaves, and very small, 

 clustered, incomplete and commonly imperfect flowers axillary or on twigs of 

 the previous season. Calyx-tube short, the limb deeply 4:-6-lobed. Corolla none 

 (rarely of 1 or 2 small petals). Stamens 2 or 4. Ovary 2-celled; stigmas 

 thick, sometimes 2-lobed; ovules 2 in each cavity, pendulous. Drupe commonly 



