78 OLEACE.E. Osmanthw. 



articulated : petals twice the length of the sepals : fruit not seen, but evidently drupa- 

 ceous. — Guadalupe Island, off Lower California (beyond the limits of this Flora), Dr. E. 

 Palmer. 



5. OSMANTHUS, Lour. (From dfffwj, odor, and avdos, blossom, the 

 flowers fragrant.) —Shrubs and small trees (of E. United States, Pacific Islands, 

 and N. E. Asia) ; with evergreen chiefly opposite leaves, and small flowers in 

 axillary clusters. Genus founded on the Chinese 0. fragrans, cultivated as a 

 house-plant for its deliriously fragrant small blossoms ; now distinguished from 

 Oka by the imbricated instead of valvate aestivation of the corolla. — Benth. & 

 Hook. Gen. ii. 677. 



0. Americanus, Benth. & Hook. (Devil-wood.) Tall shrub or small tree, gla- 

 brous : bark whitish : leaves firm-coriaceous, lanceolate-oblong, tapering into a short 

 petiole, entire, bright green, shining above (3 to 6 inches long), much longer than the 

 panicles of dull white (polygamous or even dioecious) flowers : drupe small, dark purple. 

 — Ligustrum laurifolio, &c, Catesb. Car. i. 61, t. 61. Olea Americana, L. Mant. 24; Michx. 

 Fl. ii. 222; Michx. f. Sylv. iii. t. 6. — N. Carolina to Florida near the coast: fl. spring. 



6. ME!NOD6RA, Humb. & Bonpl. {Mhos, force, and Swqov, gift.) Low 

 shrubby, suffruticose, or nearly herbaceous plants (American and one S. African) ; 

 with simple entire or pinnately lobed leaves, many of them alternate, and con- 

 spicuous flowers terminating (he branches, or becoming lateral, or sometimes loosely 

 corymbosely cymose : fl. in spring or summer : corolla in ours yellow. — PI. 

 .ZEquin. ii. 98, t. 110 ; Gray in Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, xiv. 43 ; Benth. & Hook. 



1. c. Bolivaria, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linn. i. 207. Calyptrospermum, Dietr. 

 Spec. i. 226. 



§ 1 . BolivXria. Corolla with short or very short tube ; its lobes blunt or 



hardly acute ; the throat commonly bearded within : filaments filiform : anthers 



pointless. (§ Bolivaria & § Menodora, Gray, 1. c.) 



# Calyx-lobes rather short, 5 or 6, rarely some intermediate ones : leaves entire. 



M. spinescens, Gray. Thorny shrub, 2 to 4 feet high, rigid, divergently branched, 

 obscurely puberulent : leaves alternate, spatulate-linear and very small, commonly reduced 

 to minute scales or scars on the main branchlets : flowers small, almost sessile, terminating 

 short shoots : calyx-lobes a little shorter than the light yellow corolla, the oblong lobes of 

 which (a line and a half long) are rather shorter than the funnelform tube : capsule of 2 

 almost separate and diverging obovoid divisions. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 388, & Bot. Calif, 

 i. 471. — Nevada and adjacent borders of California, Anderson, Cooper. 



M. SCOparia, Engelni. Shrubby at base, the slender branches herbaceous, glabrous or 

 nearly so : leaves linear or lanceolate, entire ; or the lower oblong or obovate, the upper 

 mainly alternate : flowers sparsely corymbose, short-peduncled : calyx-lobes at first little 

 longer than the tube of the almost rotate corolla (lobes of the latter ovate and 3 or 4 lines 

 long) : divisions of the capsule globular. — Bot. Calif. 1. c. — S. E. California, Arizona, and 

 adjacent parts of Mexico. Related to M. integrifolia of Buenos Ayres, and to the next. 



# # Calyx-lobes 7 to 15, slender, linear or subulate : corolla nearly rotate, its obovate lobes much 

 longer than the tube. 



M. SOabra, Gray. Herbaceous from a woody branching base, a span to a foot high, 

 Flax-like, whole herbage or at least the lower part puberulent-scabrous : leaves mostly 

 alternate, linear or the lower oblong, chiefly entire, 4 to 10 lines long : flowers rather 

 numerous: peduncles remaining erect: lobes of the bright yellow corolla obovate, 3 or 4 

 lines long. —Am. Jour. Sci. I.e.; Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. vii. t. 7. — "W. Texas to N. New 

 Mexico and S. Arizona. 



M. heterophylla, Moricand. Nearly herbaceous, diffusely spreading, a span high, 

 almost glabrous but roughish : leaves mostly opposite and pinnately 3-7-cleft or parted ; 



