OLEACEAE. — OSMANTHTJS 609 



Ligustrum pedunculate Rehder, n. sp. 



Frutex ad 7-metraIis, ramis gracilibus patentibus; ramuli tenues teretes, homo- 

 tini dense breviter villoso-pilosuli, annotini tarde glabrescentes, flavido-cinerei. 

 Folia persistentia, subcoriacea, firma, oblongo-lanccolata, v. elliptico-lanceolata, 

 rarius fere lanceolata, acuminata v. longe acuminata, basin versus sensim in peti- 

 olum attenuata 4-8 cm. longe et 1-2.5 rarius ad 3 cm. lata, glaberrima, supra 

 luteo-viridia costa media manifesto et anguste impressa sicut incisa, subtus paullo 

 pallidiora costa elevata, nervis utrinsecus 4-7 supra obsoletis subtus leviter elevatis 

 anastomosantibus; petioli 2-6 mm, longi, canaliculati, glabri. Inflorescentia 

 paniculata, dense villoso-pilosula, sine pedunculo gracili tereti plerumque 1-2 cm. 

 longo 2-3 cm. longa, satis laxa, axibus secundariis duobus infimis 5-10 mm. longa 

 pedunculatis, 3-7-floris, supra plerumque floribus solitariis v. fasciculatis instituta; 

 axes subteretes, in fructu angulares; pedicelli sparse minute pilosuli v. fere glabri; 

 calyx plerumque minute denticulatus, glaber; corolla circiter 7-8 mm, longa, 

 hypocraterimorpha, tubo lobis ovatia acutiusculis margine involutis apice cucul- 

 latis 2 mm. longis plus quam duplo longiore; stamina antheris quam lobi corollae 

 fere triente brevioribus ovato-oblongis acutiusculis 2.5-3 mm. longis et 1.5 mm. 

 latis, filamentis brevibus circiter 1 mm, longis. Fructus (immaturus) ovoideus, 

 circiter 7 mm. longus. 



Szech'uan: Mt. Omei, June 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 5016, type); without 



precise locality, A. Henry (No. 7117). 



This species seems most closely related to L. Delavayanum Harlot, which differs 

 chiefly in the usually much smaller and broader leaves with the midrib slightly 

 impressed and more or less covered with short hairs above, in the sessile denser 

 and subcylindric inflorescence and in its lower habit. 



OSMANTHUS Lour. 



^ Osmanthus fragrans Loureiro, Fl Cochin. 28 (1790). — De Candolle, 

 Prodr. VIII. 291 (1844). — Debeaux in Act. Soc, Linn. Bordeaux, 

 XXX. 94 {Fl. Shanghai, 42) (1875). —Clarke in Hooker f., Fl Brit. 

 Ind. III. 606 (1882). — Hance in Jour. Bot. XX. 37 (1882); XXI. 323 

 (1883). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 88 (1889). — Diels in 

 Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 532 (1900). — Brandis, Ind. Trees, 445 (1906). — 

 Pavolini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XV. 427 (1908). — Schneider, 

 III. Handb. Laubhohk. II. 789, fig. 496 c~f (1911).— Diels in Not. 

 Bot. Gard. Edinburgh, VII. 43, 193, 265 (1912). 



Oka fragrans Thunberg, Fl Jap. 18, t. 2 (1784) . —Sims in Bot. Mag. XXXVIII. 

 t. 1552 (inflorescentia anormalis) (1813). — Loddiges, Bot. Cab. XVIII. t. 

 1786 (1831). — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PL Jap. I. 312 (1872). — Bran- 

 dis, For. Fl. Brit. Ind. 309 (1874). — L6veill6, Fl Kouy-Tcheou, 295 



(1914). 

 Olea acuminata Wallich, Cat. No. 2809 (nomen nudum) (1828). — De Candolle, 



Prodr. VIII, 285 (1844). 



Western Szech'uan: Hungya Hsien, cultivated in temple 

 grounds, etc., alt. 900 m., September 10, 1908 (No. 2374; tree 7-10 m. 

 tail, flowers white); Mt. Omei, September 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 



