72 STYEACACE^. Styrax. 



the pedicel glandular-dotted : petals lanceolate-oblong, nearly glabrous. — Diet. i. 82 ; Gray 

 Man. 1. c. S. leave, Walt. Car. 140. S. glabrum, Cav. Diss. vi. 500, t. 188 ; Miehx. Fl. ii. 4L 

 S. losvigatum, Ait. Kew. ii. 75; Bot. Mag. t. 921. Halesia parviflora, Lindl. Bot. Beg. t. 952? 

 — Along streams, Virginia to Florida, Louisiana, and Arkansas. 



# # Petals lightly but decidedly imbricated or convolute in the bud, minutely soft-puberulent out- 

 side, barely half inch long : calyx and inflorescence with the lower face of the leaves more or less 

 canescent. 



S. pulverulenta, Miohx. Low shrub : leaves as in the preceding, but more or less 

 pubescent or scurfy and hoary beneath, rarely 2 inches long on flowering stems : flowers 

 geminate in the axils on short branchlets and in short terminal racemes, fragrant : pedicels 

 not longer than the calyx: petals oblong-lanceolate. — Fl. ii. 41; Ell. Sk. i. 505. — Pine- 

 barren swamps, S. Virginia to Florida and Texas. 



S. grandifolia, Ait. Shrub from 4 to 12 feet high : leaves membranaceous, oval or ob- 

 ovate, usually denticulate, green and glabrous above, canescently pubescent or tomentose 

 beneath, the larger 3 to 6 inches long : flowers mainly in loose naked racemes of 3 to 6 

 inches in length, or some in leafy-bracted clusters, larger than in the preceding: petals 

 more overlapping in bud, oblong, fully half inch in length. — Lodd. Cab. t. 1016 (poor) ; 

 Michx. Fl. ii. 41, as S. grandiflorum. S. officinale, Walt., not L. — Kich woods, S. Virginia 

 to Florida. 



# # * Petals conspicuously overlapping in the bud, obovate or broadly oblong, two thirds to three 

 fourths inch long: short peduncle terminating the branches or short lateral branchlets, corym- 

 bosely 1-4-flowered : bracts minute : style long and filiform. 



S. platanifolia, Engelm. Shrub 12 feet high, green and glabrous or nearly so : leaves 

 roundish, with subcordate or truncate broad base and slender petiole, undulate or angulate- 

 toothed, or even sinuate-lobed, sometimes abruptly acuminate, reticulate-veiny (2 to 4 

 inches in diameter) : even the pedicels and calyx glabrous or nearly so. — Torr. in Smiths. 

 Contrib. vi. 4, note. — Wooded bottoms, Texas, Lindheimer, Wright, &c. 



S. Calif ornica, Torr. Shrub 5 to 8 feet high, with scurfy stellular pubescence, at first 

 hoary, sometimes soon green and glabrate : leaves oval, entire or sparingly undulate (an 

 inch or two long), short-petioled : pedicels with the calyx and corolla minutely canescent : 

 style becoming an inch long. — Smiths. Contrib. 1. c. & Pacif . B. Eep. iv. 118 ; Gray, Bot. 

 Calif, i. 470. — W. side of the Sierra Nevada, California, Fremont, &c. Bony seed as large 

 as a small cherry. 



Order. LXXXVI. OLEACEtE. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely almost herbaceous, with colorless bland juice, opposite 

 (rarely alternate) leaves destitute of stipules, perfect or dioecious and regular 

 flowers (gamopetalous, 2-4-petalous, apetalous, or even achlamydeous) ; with 

 stamens 2 to 4, mostly 2 and fewer than the parts of the corolla, distinct ; the free 

 ovary 2-celled ; style one or none ; anatropous ovules mostly one or two pairs in 

 each cell ; seeds with a rather large straight embryo (its cotyledons flat or plano- 

 convex) in firm fleshy albumen, or sometimes exalbuminous. 



Forsythia vieidissima and F. strspENSA, of Japan and China, cultivated ornamental 

 shrubs, noted for their very early yellow blossoms, are peculiar in having numerous ovules. 



Syringa, the Lilac, of the Old World, becomes spontaneous in a few places. 



LiGnsTRUM vui.gare, the Privet, used for ornamental hedges, is also occasionally found 

 wild in the vicinity of towns in the Eastern Atlantic States, and may claim to be a really natu- 

 ralized plant. 



Olea Europ^ea, the Olive, has long been planted in the southern part of California. 



Tribe I. FBAXINEiE. Fruit entire, dry, indehiscent, winged, a samara. Seed 

 suspended. 



1. FRAXINUS. Flowers dioecious or polygamous, sometimes perfect. Calyx very small, 

 4-cleft or irregularly toothed, or entire, or wanting. Petals none^ or 4 and either separate 



