88 85. OLEACEX : OLEINEE. 
3. Osmanthus fragrans, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 28 ; DC. Prodr. 
viii. p. 291; Hance in Journ. Bot. 1882, p. 37, et 1883, p. 323; 
Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 606 ; Debeaux, Fl. Shangh. 
p. 42; Bot. Mag. t. 1552. 
Olea fragrans, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 18, t. 2; Franch. et Savat. Enum. 
Pl. Jap. i. p. 312. 
Curuut: Peking, cultivated ? (Bretschneider!); Cuusan AR- 
curPELAGO (Cantor!); Formosa: Kelung, cultivated (Oldham, 
3112); Huren: Ichang, Patung, Nanto and mountains to the 
northward (A. Henry!). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
North India, from Gurwhal to the Khasia mountains, and in 
Japan. 
Dr. Henry sends specimens with thorny, strongly veined leaves 
on short thick petioles. l 
pt 4. Osmanthus Fordii, Hemsl., n. sp. 
Frutex parvus (Ford), undique glaberrimus, dense ramosus, 
ramulis floriferis graciliusculis, cortice pallido, internodiis bre- 
vissimis. Folia breviter petiolata, crasse coriacea, ovali-oblonga 
vel elliptica, 13-23 poll. longa, utrinque obtusissima vel rotun- 
data, integerrima, margine inerassata, venis immersis inconspicuis. 
Flores in axillis foliorum superiorum conferti, brevissime pedi- 
cellati; calyx tenuissimus, obscure irregulariterque 4-lobatus, 
lobis denticulatis ; corolla crassa, subcarnosa, rotata, lobis latis 
rotundatis; stamina 2, filamentis brevibus, antheris magnis orbi- 
cularibus loculis discretis ; ovarium glabrum. Fructus non visus. 
KwawNoruNe: without locality (Ford, 116!). Herb. Kew. - 
5 psmanthus marginatus, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 
p- 677. ; 
Olea marginata, Champ. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iv. p. 330; Walp. 
Ann. v. p. 483; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 215. 
HoxsaexoNa (Champion !). Herb. Kew. 
[Olea ovalis, Miq. (Journ. de Bot. Néerl. i. p. 111), from the 
province of Kwangtung, may belong to Osmanthus.) 
v/ 1. Chionanthus retusus, Lindl. et Paxt. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. 
iii. p- 85, fig. 273; Walp. Ann. v. p. 482; Maxim. in Mél. Biol. 
ix. p. 653. 
Chionanthus chinensis, Mazim. in Mél. Biol. ix. p. 393 ; Franch. et 
Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. i. p. 312. 
