. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 8i4 Devilwood being known; the other, ako cuhivated for ornament and known as the Chinese fringe, Chionanthus retusa Paxton, is a native of eastern Asia. The name is the Greek for snowflower, in reference to the white flowers. IV. DEVILWOOD GENUS OSMANTHUS LOUREIRO Species Osmanthns americana (Linnaeus) Bentham and Hooker Olea americana Linnaeus ^SO called Wild oUve, this small evergreen tree or shrub of the coastal regio
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 8i4 Devilwood being known; the other, ako cuhivated for ornament and known as the Chinese fringe, Chionanthus retusa Paxton, is a native of eastern Asia. The name is the Greek for snowflower, in reference to the white flowers. IV. DEVILWOOD GENUS OSMANTHUS LOUREIRO Species Osmanthns americana (Linnaeus) Bentham and Hooker Olea americana Linnaeus ^SO called Wild oUve, this small evergreen tree or shrub of the coastal region from North Carolina to Florida and eastern Louisiana, attains a maximum height of about 15 meters, with a trunk diameter of 3 dm. The bark is thin and close, scaly, dark gray or reddish gray. The twigs are slender, slightly angular, light reddish brown, becoming round, and gray. The buds are about 12 mm. long, covered by 2 thick scales. The leaves are thick, leathery, narrowly elliptic, lanceolate or oblanceolate, pointed at the apex, nar-. FiG. 746. — Devilwood. rowed at the base into a short stalk, entire, thick and revolute on the margin, bright green, smooth, and shining above, paler beneath. The flowers are very fragrant, appearing in March in axillary clusters; calyx small, smooth, with 4 stiff, sharp, triangular lobes; the corolla is 4-lobed, 3 to 4 mm. long and whitish; in the pistillate flowers the stamens are reduced, rudimentary or very small; style of the pistillate flowers terminating in a large, shghtly exserted stigma; in the staminate flowers, the stigma is reduced to a mere point. The fruit, ripening in early autumn, is oval-ovoid or oval-obovoid, 12 to 18 mm. long, deep purple to blue or yellow-green; its flesh is dry and thin; the ovoid stone contains a single Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly
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