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iBidroUa monopelalous, hypogynous, 4-cleft or sometimes 4-peUU 

 ted, with the petals united by pairs by the filaments, sometimes 

 ir^iUt^ng, by abortion, in the female flowers, sub-valvate in ^si;i- 

 Vation,'; stamens 2, attached to the base, alternate with the 

 lobes or petals ; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally ; 

 ovary gimplei free, without a hypogynous disk, ^rcelled, with 2 

 collateral, pendulous or amphitropous ovules in each ; style 1 or 

 hone ; stigpia bifid or undivided ; fruit drupaceous, pr baccatei 

 br caps»;lar, bften 1-seeded by ahortion ; seed usually pendu- 

 lous : albumen gehei-ally copibUs, dense, fleshy ; sometimes spar- 

 ing or wantiiig : embryo, when albumen is copious, straight, 

 iabout half the length of the seed ; cotyledons foliacebus, wheii 

 wanting, amygdaloid. 



Polygamia Dilecia: Seit: Sy'sil! 



Deriv. J'rora Phrasso, to enclose or fence in ; the ash. waS 

 iised formerly for making hedges; 



Gen. ,Char. frees or shrubs : leaves opposite, petioled; une- 

 icujally pinnate, 2-7 pair, leaflets sessile or petioled, toothed, rarely 

 ^ujte entire: floiW«irs racemose or panicled : petals (when prpsgnt) 

 white : calyx 4-cleft or wanting : petals sometimes none, sotnetimes 

 4, frequently cohering in pairs at the ba^e, oblong or linear : stamens 

 2 : stigma 2-cleft : samara 2-celled, compressed, winged at the apex, 

 icells 2-ovuled, by abortion 1-seeded: seeds pendulous, compressed: 

 albumen fleShy, thin,: embiryo the length of the albumen: cotyleJ 

 dons elliptic : radicle linear, superior. 



(1) F. DKOPHYLtA. (Wall.) 



Id^int. Wall. Cat. No. 2835.— Pec. prod. VIII. p. 275. 

 Si/n. Ornus liropbylla, Don's 11011. diet. tV. p. 57. 



Sbeo. Cjiar. -Tree : leaises long-petioled : leaflets 2-3 pair, longJ 

 petiolate, merabramaceousj ovate-oblong, long-acuminated, serrat^S 

 ed ^ p^niC|les axillary. 



Pundua. Silhet. 



GliNUS II. OLEA. 



Deriv. From Elaia, the Olive. 



i^EN. CiiAR. Trees or shrubs: leaves opposite, quite eritir^| 



