eao Obdee 99.— OLEAOE.ZE. 



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

 purple, dryish. Apr., May. 



8. VISIA'HIA, 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. panicul^ta 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". -I- 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 ; S flowers 

 sessile, crowded, each of the 2 stamens surrounded 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 P. aoumlndta Poir. I/os. glabrous, green both sides, lance-elliptic, acvmirMie 

 at each end, serrulate above, on slender petioles ; fruit an oblong-cylindric, pointed, 

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

 Ga. (Macon, Mettauer I). Shrub 10 to 18f high. Lvs. thin, 2 to 3' long, petiole 

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



2 F. ligustrina Poir. Lvs. ovate and oUong, attenuate to the petiole, obtuse, cori- 

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

 liesoent 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 S to 10", reticulate, not dotted, 

 beneath. 



3 F. poTuldsa Poir. Leaves oblong^laneeolate, obtuse, sessile, coriaceoiis, margins 

 rfivolute, lower surface doited (porulous) and ferruginous. — On the sea-coast, 

 Georgia and Florida (Pursh.) Leaves all opposite. (A. porulosa Mx.) 



