Frmhua.] ' jasminacHjE. • 215 



long, iiiBbricate in the bud. Stamens, longer. Fruit linear, about f in. long, 

 induding the wing, about 1| lines broad in the broadest part, and always 

 emarginate at the top. 



In woods in the Happy Valley, near the waterfall, Champion, Bance; also near Amoy, 

 Fortune. I had formerly thbttght that this might ho a variety of the widely spread F. floru 

 bimda. Wall., but a closer examination shows that it differs in the calyx, which is twice as 

 large, and not deeply lohed as in that species, and in the reticulation of the leaflets, besides 

 the constantly notched fruit, which appears to be always acute iu F. floribunda. 



2. OIiEA, LinB. 



Flowers often polygamous. CproUa 4-lobed, with a short tube, or rai-ely 

 none; the lobes usually imbricate.in the bud. Ovary 3-celled, with 2 pendu- 

 lous ovules in each cell. Fruit a drupe. Seed usually 1, pendulous, with a 

 fleshy albumen. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves entire, coriaceous. Flowers small, 

 in axillary racemes, panicles, or clusters, or, in some African species, in termi- 

 nal pardcles. 



A genus comprising several African and Asiatic or Mediterranean s^pecips, with one from 

 N, America, and another from New Zealand. 



] . O. marginata, Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 330. A hoUy-like 

 evergreen stab, apparently dioecious. Leaves chiefly near the ends of the 

 branches, elliptical-oblong, obtuse or scarcely acuminate, 2^ to near 5 iu. 

 loug, narrowed into a stout petiole of f to 1 in., thickly coriaceous, smooth, 

 amd .shining above, the midrib alone prominent on the under side. Panicles 

 dense, minutely pubescent, not longer than the petiole. Lower bracts linear, 

 the upper ones minute. Oalyx obtusely 4-lobed, about \ line long. CoroUa- 

 feuiie about 1 line ; the lobes broad, obtuse, quite glabrous, and imbricate in 

 the bud. Stamens rather longer. Ovary, in. the flowers examined, all small 

 and abortive. The female specimens are iu fruit only. Drupes oblong, about 

 \ in. long, with a .woody putamen. • 



Near the topiof the waterfall in the Happy Valley, Champion; also Hance. Not received 

 from elsewhere, nor yet is it at ,all like any other Asiatic species known to me. On the other 

 hand, it very closely resembles the N. American 0. americana, Linn., from which our speci-. 

 mens only show some slight differences in the shape of the bracts, in the glabrous corolla- 

 lobes, and in the longer fruit. 



The O.fragraus, Thunb., and 0. aquifoUum, Sieb. and Zucc., are much cultivated in gar- 

 dens, but are not stated to have established themselves in the island in a wild state. 



3. LIGUSTBUM, Linn. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. CoroUa 4-lobed with a long or short tube, the 

 lobes usually valvate in the bud. Ovary 2-ceUed, with 2 pendulous ovules in 

 each cell. Stigma ;3-lobed. Fruit a globular 2-celled berry. Seeds usually 

 solitary in each cell, pendulous, with a fleshy or cartilaginous albumen. — 

 Shrubs. Leaves entire, often coriaceous. Flowers rather small, white, in 

 terminal panicles. 



. A smaU genus, ranging over the mountains of Asia, from the Himalaya to Japan, with one 

 European species. 



1. L. sineuse, Imw. ; DC. Prod. viii. 294. A shi-ub, with slender pu- 

 bescent spreading branches. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1 to 2 in. 



