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ftiaped fpreading ftamina, fupporting fhort four lobcd 
Antherse. The female trees have fewer flowers pro- 
duced upon much longer, Ample, cylindrical foot- 
ftalks, thickened at the extremity, and fupporting 
generally three flowers, fitting clofe and having a 
fmall involucrum. They are compofed of five final! 
oval leaves, and in the center an awl-fhaped incurv- 
ed ftyle, arifing from the oblong germen, which is 
beneath, and becomes an oval oblong berry, of a 
dark purplifh colour when ripe. The timber of this 
tree is clofe grained and curled fo as not to be fplit or 
parted ; and therefore much ufed for hubs of wheels 
for waggons, carriages, &c. 
O L E A. 
The OLIVE-TREE. 
Clafs.2. Order i. Diandria Monogynia* 
T HE Empalement is of one leaf, tubular, and fmall : the bor- 
der four-toothed, erett and deciduous. 
This Corolla is one petal’d, funnel-form. The tube cylindrical, 
the length of the empalement. Ihe border four-parted and 
plain: the divifions femi-ovate. 
The Filaments two, oppofite, awl-fhaped and fhort. The An- 
therce ereft. 
The Germen is roundifh. The Style fimple, very fhort The 
Stigmas two- cleft, thickened, the divifions end-nicked. 
The Seed vejjel a drupe, fomewhat ovate, fmooth, and one cell’d. 
The Seed ovate-oblong, and wrinkled, % 
The Species with us , 
Ole a americana. American Olive Tree . 
This grows naturally in Carolina and Florida, and 
is a beautiful ever-green tree. The leaves are nearly 
ovate, or fomewhat oblong, perennial, of a fliining, 
full 
