600 Order 99.— OLBACE^. 



grant, the fertile and barren on separate trees. Drupes larger than peas, violet- 

 purple, dryish. Apr., May. 



8. VISIA'NIA, DC. (Dedicated to Visiani, Professor of botany at 

 Patavia.) Calyx, corolla and stamens as in Olea ; fruit obovate or ob- 

 long, with a very thin pulp, and thin, papery shell. — Trees with oppo- 

 site, entire Ivs. and loose,' terminal, many-flowered panicles. (Olea, 

 Wall.) 



V. paniculata DO. Lvs. ovate, acute, entire, glabrous ; panicle glabrous ; 

 bracts deciduous ; style club-shaped ; fruit obliquely ovate. — Fls. small, white, 

 numerous, in large naked panicles. Lvs. coriaceous, 3' long, petioles 9". f China. 



9. FORESTIE'RA, Poir. (Dedicated to M. Forestier, a French phy- 

 sician.) Dioecious, apetalous ; flower buds in the axils of the last year's 

 leaves, scaly with roundish, thin scales, and many-flowered ; (, flowers 

 sessile, crowded, each of the 2 "stamens sun'ounded by a caducous calyx 

 of 4 oblong, minute sepals ; ? flowers pedicellate, umbellate ; calyx 

 obsolete ; ovary tipped with a slender style and a capitate stigma, 2- 

 celled, cells 2-ovuled ; drupe with 1 suspended seed. — Shrubs or small 

 trees, with opposite, simple lvs. and minute fls. (Adelia Mx. Borya Ph.) 



1 r. aoumiuata Poir. Lvs. glabrous, green both sides, lance-elliptic, acumiruile 

 at each md, serrulate above, on stmder 'petioles ; fruit an oblong-cyhndric, pointed, 

 fleshy, glaucous-purple drupe. — In sluggish streams. 111. (opposite St. Louis 1) to 

 G-a. (Macon, Mettauerl). Shrub 10 to 18f high. Lvs. thin, 2 to 3' long, petiole 

 1'. Mar., Apr. (A. acuminata Mx. F. ligustrina Gr.) 



2 P. ligustrina Poir. Lvs. ovale and ohlong, attenuate to the petiole, obtuse, cori- 

 aceous, serrulate, margins slightly revolute, glabrous above, midvein sparsely pu- 

 bescent beneath ; staminate flowers in small, lateral, globular clusters (fertile plant 

 not seen). — Near Savannah (Feay). Shrub 10 — 15f ? high, with slender branches 

 and branchlets. Lvs. with the petioles 1 to 2' by 6 to 10", reticulate, not dotted, 

 beneath. 



3 F. ponilosa Poir. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, sessile, coriaceous, margins 

 revolute, lower surface dotted (porxilous) and ferruginmis. — On the sea-coast, 

 GnecTgia and Florida (Pursh.) Leaves all opposite. (A. portilosa Mx.) 



