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PRIVET LEAVED STILLINGIA. 
STILLINGIA ligustrina, foliis lanceolatis utrinque attenu - 
at is integerrimis petiolatis, flosculis masculis stub soli tar Us, 
triandris. 
Stillingia ligustrina. Mich. Flor. Bor. Amer., vol. 2. p. 132. 
Willd. Sp. PI. 4. p. 566. Pursh, vol. 2. p. 608. Nutt., 
vol. 2. p. 226. Elliott, vol. 2. p. 651. 
This native species of the genus Stillingia, in the 
forests of East Florida, according to the observations 
of my friend Mr. Ware, becomes a tree, and attains an 
elevation of 30 feet. In Georgia, at Columbus, on the 
banks of the Chatahoochee, where I have observed it in 
considerable abundance, it only forms a shrub of 10 or 
12 feet. Although a handsome tree or shrub, nearly 
evergreen, and resembling the privet when in flower, 
so far from being pleasing, it emits a very disagreeable 
odour, almost as foetid as carrion. 
The bark is nearly smooth and brownish-gray, the 
branches diffuse, and only clad with leaves towards the 
summits; these are from 1 to 2 inches in length and 
about f of an inch in width, they are either wholly 
lanceolate or oval-lanceolate, very smooth, entire, and 
acute or acuminated at either extremity; the petioles are 
about 2 or 3 lines long. The flowers are small, green- 
ish-yellow, in lateral and terminal shortish spikes; in 
some specimens, wholly staminiferous, in others with a 
few fertile flowers at the base of the spikes. Scale or 
bracte of the sterile flowers short, ovate, mostly 1 -flow- 
ered. Perianth 3-cleft, stamens generally 3, the filaments 
very short. Fertile flower similar. Styles 3, united at 
base, reflected; stigmas simple. Capsule 3-seeded. 
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