280 OLIVE FAMILY. 



1. JASMINUM, jessamine. (From the Arabic name.) Cultivated 

 for ornament, from the Old World, all tender and house-plants except at the 

 South. Flowers fragrant. 



* Flowers yellow : leaves commonly alternate and compound. 



J. odoratissimum. Common Sweet Yellow J., from Madeira : smooth, 

 twining ; leaflets 3 or 5, ovate ; peduncles terminal, few-flowered. 



J. revoltltuni, from Himalayas or China : not twining, has mostly 3-7 

 leaflets, and more numerous and fragrant flowers, 1^' wide. 

 * « Flowers white : leaves opposite. 



J, OfB.cin^e, CoiniioN White J., from the East, has striate-angled 

 branches scarcely twining, about 7 oblong or lance-ovate leaflets, a terminal 

 cyme of very fragrant flowers and calyx-teeth slender. 



J. grandiflbrum, from India, has 7 or 9 oval leaflets, the uppermost con- 

 fluent, larger and fewer flowers than the foregoing, reddish outside. 



J. Az6ricUIIl, from the Azores and Madeira : not twining, with 3 ovate or 

 heart-shaped leaflets, terminal cymes of very sweet-scented flowers, and very 

 short calyx-teeth. 



J. S4inbac, from Tropical India : scarcely climbing, pubescent ; leaves 

 simple, ovate, or heart-shaped ; flowers in small close clusters ; calyx-teeth 

 about 8, slender, the rounded lobes of the corolla as many ; flowers simple or 

 double, very fragrant, especially at evening. 



2. PORSYTHIA. (Named for W. A. Forsyth, an English botanist.) 

 Ornamental shrubs, from China and Japan, with flowers from separate 

 lateral buds, preceding the serrate leaves, in early spring. 



P. viridissima, a vigorous shrub, with strong and mostly erect yellowish 

 green branches, covered in early spring with abundant showy yellow flowers, 

 followed by the deep green lance-oblong leaves. 



F. suspensa, shrub with long and slender weak branches hanging, or some 

 of them creeping, to be treated as a climber ; flowers still earlier, but less pro- 

 fuse ; leaves thinner, duller, ovate. 



3. SYBINGA, LILAC. (From Greek word for tube, alluding either to the 

 tubular corolla or to the twigs, used for pipe-stems.) Familiar ornamental 

 tall shrubs, from the Old World, with scaly buds in the axils of the leaves, 

 but hardly ever a terminal one (so that there is only a pair at the tip of a 

 branch), entire leaves on slender petioles, and crowded compound panicles or 

 thyrsus of mostly fragrant flowers, in spring. 



S. vulg^is, Common L., from E. Europe or Persia : with ovate and more 

 or less heart-shaped leaves, and lobes of corolla moderately spreading ; fl. lilac 

 or pale violet, and a white variety. 



S. P6rsiea, Persian L. ; more slender, with lance-ovate leaves, and looser 

 clusters of lilac-purple or paler or sometimes white flowers, border of the corolla 

 flat when open. 



4. LIGtJSTRUM, PEIVET or PRIM. ( Classical Latin name. ) Shrubs 

 of Old World, planted for ornament, with short-petioled entire leaves and 

 l)anicles of small flowers, in early summer. 



L. vulg&re, Common P., of Europe, here planted for hedges, and running 

 wild E. ; leaves small, lance-ovate or lance-oblong. 



L. Japdnicum. Cult, from Japan, not hardy N. : has long and widely 

 spreading branches, larger ovate leaves, and larger flowers in ample panicles. 



5. OLEA, OLIVE. (The classical Latin name.) Flowers small, and in 

 small panicles or corymbs, in spring. 



O. Europsea, Olive of the Levant, sometimes planted far S. : tree with 

 lanceolate or lance-oblong pale entire leaves, whitish-scurfy beneath, and oblong 

 edible oily fruit. 



