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8. PBRIPIiOCA. (Name, a Greek word, implies tliat the plant twines.) 

 P. Graeca, of S. Eu., cult, as an ornamental twiner, hardy tlirough the 



Middle States : smooth, with opposite ovate mostly pointed leaves, on short 

 petioles, and lateral cymes of rather small flowers, the corolla greenish-yellow 

 with the upper face of the oblong lobes brownish-pnrple : in summer. 



9. STAPEIiIA. (Named for a Dutch naturalist, ZV. Fan StajDeZ.) Strange- 

 looking fleshy plants of the Cape of Good Hope, cult, in conservatories along 

 with Cactuses. The commonest is 



S. hirstlta. Stems or branches G'-IO' high, with concave sides, pale and 

 obscurely downy ; flower 3' -4' in diameter, dull purple and yellowish with 

 darker transverse stripes, beset with purple very long hairs, and with denser 

 hairiness towards the contrL-, exhaling a most disgusting odoi', not unlike that 

 of putrid meat. 



89. OLEACE^, OLIVE FAMILY. 



Trees or s-hrubs, chiefly smooth, without milky juice, distinguished 

 among monopetalous plants with free ovary by the regular flowers 

 having stamens almost always 2, and always fewer than the 4 (some- 

 times 5 or more) divisions of the corolla, the ovary 2-celled and 

 (except in Jasminum and Forsythia) with one pair of ovules in 

 each cell : style if any only one, rarely 2-cleft. A few are nearly 

 or quite polypetalous ; others apetalous. 



§ 1. Calyx and corolla with 5-8 lobes A angle erect ovule and seed in each cell. 



1. JASMINUM. Corolla salvei^shaped, the lobes convolute in the bud. Stamens 



2, included in the tube. Ovary and the berry-like fruit 2-Iobed, 2-seeded. 



i 2. Calyx and corolla with the parts in fours, or sometimes (in Fraxinus) one or 

 both wanting. Ovules hanging, usually a pair in each cell, many in No. 2. 

 Leaves opposite, except accidentally. 



* Leaves simple : Jlowers perfect and complete. 

 *- Ovules and seeds numerous or several in each cell of the ovary and pod. 



2. FOESYTHIA. Corolla golden yellow, bell-shaped, 4-lobed, the lobes con- 



volute in the bud. The 2 stamens and style short. Pod ovate. Leaves 

 deciduous. 



■t- •*- Ovules a pair in each cell, but the seeds often fewer. 



3. SYRINGA. Corolla salver-form, the lobes valvate in the bud, the tube much 



longer than the 4-toothed calyx. Fruit a pod, 4-seeded, flattened contrary 

 to the narrow partition, 2-valved, the valves almost conduplicate. Seeds 

 slightly wing-margined. Leaves deciduous. 



4. LIGOSTEUMT Corolla short funnel-form, with spreading ovate obtuse lobes, 



valvate in the bud, white. Fruit a 1- 4-seeded black berry. Leaves firm 

 and thickish, but deciduous. 

 6. OLEA. Corolla short, bell-shaped, or deeply cleft into 4 spreading lobes, white. 

 Fruit a drupe, the hard stone often becoming 1-celled and 1-seeded. Leaves 

 evergreen. 



6. CHIONANTHUS. Corolla white, 4-parted, or of 4 very long and narrow linear 



petals slightly or scarcely united at their base; to which the 2 (rarely 3 or 

 even 4 in cultivation) very short stamens barely adhere. Fruit a fleshy and 



f lobular drupe, the stone becoming 1-oelled and commonly 1-seeded. Leaves 

 eciduous. 

 « * Leavespmnate : jlowers polygamous or dieecious, in most species apetalous. 



7. FRAXINUS. Calyx small, sometimes obsolete or wholly wanting- Petals 4, 



2, or none. Anthers large. Fruit a simple samara or key ^ Lessons, p. 122. 

 fig. 389), usually becoming 1-celled and 1-seeded. Leaves deciduous. 



