Oleacee—Ligustrum. 293 
foliage. And there are white- and yellow-berried and gold and 
silver variegated varieties, as well as a weeping form. 
2. L. Japdnicuin.—An evergreen robust-growing shrub with 
coriaceous larger and broader leaves than the foregoing and 
slightly fragrant rather larger flowers. There is a variety with 
handsome varievated foliage. 
3. LD. Sinénsis.—An evergreen or quasi-evergreen shrub with 
slender pubescent branches and ovate-lanceolate leaves shining 
above and hairy beneath. Flowers small, white. China. 
4. L. lucidum, syn. L. ovulifolium.—aA pretty evergreen 
shrub with oval, ovate-lanceolate, elliptical or nearly rotundate 
leaves and white flowers. Native of Japan, and very near and 
probably a variety of L. Japoénicum. 
5. L. coridceun.—A very distinct evergreen species of recent 
introduction, with dense glossy dark green coriaceous ovate- 
oblong obtuse leaves. 
4, FRAXINUS (including Ornus). 
Trees with unequally pinnate deciduous leaves and polyga- 
mous or dicecious flowers in dense axillary clusters. Calyx 4- 
lobed or none. Corolla 4-lobed cr none. Stamens 2, Fruit 
a flattened 1- or 2-celled 
samara or key, winged at 
the tip; cells 1-seeded. 
About thirty species are 
known, inhabiting Eu- 
rope, North Asia, and 
North America, where 
they are most numerous. 
Fraxinus is the Latin 
name of the common 
Ash. 
1. F. Ornws, syn. 
Ornus Europka (fig. 
164). Flowering Ash.— 
This is so called on ac- 
count of the conspicuous 
clustered panicles of pnre 
white petaliferous flowers pendulous at the extremities of the 
branches. A handsome small tree with somewhat hairy leaves, 
composed of 7 to 9 pairs of lanceolate shortly petiolulate leaf- 
lets. South of Europe. 
Fig. 164. Fraxinus Ornus. (Nat. size.) 
