Ohx.] XXXIX. OLACINE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.* 575 



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cup-shaped, hypogyuous disk, more or less 3-celled below, 1 -celled above ; 

 style simple, terminal, stigma 3-lobed ; ovules 3, linear, pendulous froia 

 the apex of a central placenta. Fruit more or less covered by the accrescent 

 fleshy calyx; stone crustaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed inverse, albumi-, 

 lious ; embryo minute, in the apex of albumen ; radicle superior. — Distrib.' 

 A genus of 25-30 species, natives of the tropics of the Old World. ; 





1. O. scandens, Boxb. FL Ind. I 163; Cor. PL iii. t. 102; scandent, 

 pnckly, leaves ovate oblong or oblong-lanceolate, racemes many-flowered, 

 peduncles ascending longer than the bracts. Wall. Cat. 6774 A to G; 

 y . d: A. Prodr. i. 89 ; Miq, Fl. Ind, BaL i. pt. L 785 ; Dah. i; Gibs. Boinb, 

 ^.27; Thwaites Enum. 42; Brandis For. Flor. 75. 0. Bador, Ham. in 

 ^ml Cat 6778. O. psittacorum, Vald Enum. 34, ^a/%. Eoxburghia 

 baccata, Za5«. eo; IT. ^ ^. ProG?r. i. 89. 



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Tropical Westekn Himalaya, in Kumaon ; Behar ; Central and Southern India ; 



^uiLKUND, BiRMA, Tenasserim ; Ceylon, in hot dry parts of the Island. — Distkib. ' 

 Java. ^ 



Trnnl: as thick as a man's thigh. Branches terete, more or less puherulous, prickles 

 stout, curved. Leaves distichous, 2 by 1 in., yellowish-green, glahrous or sometimes 

 Piioerulous beneath; petiole ^^\ in., puberulous. Racemes solitaiy, axillary, half 

 ^? ^^^gth of the leaves ; peduncles puberulous, twi'^e the length of the minute bracts, 

 ^■timers small, white. Calypc pubemlous or glabrescent. Petals 3-5-6, irregularly 

 'cleft Fertile stamens 3, anthers oblong. Staminodes 2-fid. Ovary ovoid-oblong 

 1-ceIled, 1- rarely 3-ovuled. Drupe ovoid or globose, 3-4th8 covered by the accres- 

 cent calyx,— Variable in the form and vestiture of the leaves as well as in the degte6 

 ^i cohesion of the petals. From this latter cause the number of petals in diflfereiit 

 cowers appears to vary and the relative position of the fertile stamens and petals 

 Btems to^be different. Wallich'a 0. Bador is rather more pubescent than the other 

 fipecmieus, ^ 



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2. O. Imbricata, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 164 ; scandent, nnarmed, leaves 

 ovate-oblong acute, racemes many-flowered, peduncles ascending scarcely 

 fnger than the bracts. Wall. Cat. 6775 A, B; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat I pt. 



1.785. 



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^TTAGONG and Maetaban at Amherst, TTaZZ/cA.— t)iSTRiB. ^tava, Philippines. 

 Ranches slender, terete, young shoots puberulous. Leaves distichous, 4 by 1| in, and 

 ^^^^*^8i coriaceous, glabrous, base rounded ; petiole | in. Racemes axillary, compact, 

 Folded, when young with large (for the genus), Ovate, concave, imbricate bracts so 

 ^ to resemble the spikelcts of a 5ma (Eoxb.), ultimately about I in., dichotomous, 

 g^^y-tiowered; peduncles puberulous. Flowers nearly \ in. Pe^a?^ 6, combined in 

 gW^' ^^'^^^^^ ^^^^ens 3, nearly as long as the 6 bifid staminodes. Fruit ^ in., ovoid, 



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_ 3. o. Wlg^htiana, Wall. Cat. 6779 ; shrubby or arborescent, leaves 

 ti;^\f;obloiig, racemes many-flowered lax, peduncles drooping longer than 

 *i'e bracts. W. and A Prodr. i 89 : Dah. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 27 ; I hwait^ 

 Cnuy. "- - ■ ' - -' - ■ " ' '^ 0. lucida, Ilet/m in 



^' 0. zeylanica, WaU. Cat. 6777 B?. 



tliel^^-^ ^"emnsula, from 1 



/.v'^.^r parts of the island. , .n-^ ^ -o i . 



rial r '* °^ ^nia" tree (Beddome), a scandent shrub (Dalz. and Gibs.). Brandies terete, 

 Clai! • ^««"e« 3-4 by U in.T glabrous, shining above, paler beneath; petiole J in., 

 hMnr^'i °' puberulous. Baceme 1 in., axillary, solitary or clusterc^l simple or 

 C2l"^ ' peduncles A in., distichous. Flower-huds cjlin^ric-clavate. Flotcer i-{ m. 



■"y* cupular, puberulous' ' Fetak 5. Fertile stamena 3, half the length of the 



wT-^^' ^^ddome Fl. Syh. Anal Gen', t. 9, f. 2. 

 L S >?^' ^^''7. O. psittacorum, Vald Enum. 233iPa 



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