Dom UL a NIV RAM ERE SS CS a, T o 7C 
Syringa. | XCII. OLEACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 605 
2. S. Emodi, Wall. Cat. 2831; leaves 2-5 in. elliptic or ovate glabrous 
whitened beneath, panicles dense, flowers often fascicled. Royle Ill. 267, t. 65, 
fig. 2; DC. Prodr. viii. 283; Bot. Reg. 31 (1845), t. 6; Brand. For. Fl. 306 ; 
Decne. in Nouv. Arch, Mus. 2, ii. 40. 
SUBALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 9-12,000 ft., from Kashmir to Kumaon, frequent; 
Wallich, Falconer, &c. 
A large shrub. Leaves 34 by 13 in., acute at both ends, secondary nerves pro- 
minently retieulating beneath; petiole 3-2 in. Panicles dense-flowered ; bracts lan- 
ceolate, deciduous, usually inconspicuous ; pedicels often 0, sometimes 4 in. Calya 
4 in., subtruncate, minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous. Corolla purplish or white ; 
tube 4 in.; lobes} in. Capsule 1-$ in., terete, 2-grooved, acute. 
5. FRAXINUS, Linn. 
Trees. Leaves opposite, unequally pinnate. Inflorescence terminal or on 
shortened axillary buds falsely axillary. Flowers small, polygamous or dicecious, 
panicled, racemose or subfascicled; bracts caducous. Calyx small, 4-toothed, 
or 0. Petals 0, or 2-4, free or connate in pairs at the base, narrow-oblong, in- 
duplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens 2, attached near the base of the petals or 
subhypogynous, filaments short or long. Ovary 2-celled ; style short or long, 
bifid ; ovules in each cell 2, pendulous from its apex. Capsule samaroid, com- 
pressed contrary to the partition, produced into a wing, l-seeded, indehiscent, 
Seed pendulous, oblong; albumen fleshy; cotyledons flat, radicle superior.— 
DIsTRIB. Species 30, in the north temperate regions of both hemispheres. 
Sect. I. Ornus. Petals 2-4. Flowers panicled, mostly hermaphrodite. 
1. F. floribunda, Wall. Cat. 2836, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & 
Wall. i. 150, and Pl. As. Rar. iii. 47, t. 277 ; leaflets elliptic-lanceolate serrate 
membranous, secondary nerves reticulated, samaras 1-13 in. very narrow obtuse 
or emarginate. Don Prodr. 106; DC. Prodr. viii. 275; Brand. For. Fl. 302, 
t. 37. F. urophylla, Wall. Cat. 2835 ; DC. l.c. Ornus floribunda, Dietr. Sp. 
Pl. i. 249; Loud, Arb. 653, t. 1270. O. urophylla, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 57. 
TEMPERATE and SUBALPINE HiwALAYA, alt. 5-11,000 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan ; 
Wallich, Griffith, &c. Kuasa Mrs., alt. 4-5000 ft. ; De Silva, H. f. & T. 
A large tree. Leaflets 3-4 pairs, 4 by 14 in., acutely acuminate, serratures close 
shallow (in the Khasian F. urophylla more distant and coarse), glabrous, when young 
pilose on the nerves beneath; petiolules } in.  Pedicels in., in tufts on the branches 
of the panicle. Calyx Jk in.; teeth acutely triangular in the typical Kumaon 
plant, hardly any in the East Himalayan.  Corolla-lobes à—4 in., linear-oblong. Fila- 
ments d, in. Style short; stigma long, deciduous. Samara } in. wide upwards, nar- 
rowed to the width of the seed at base.— 7". retusa, Champ. (according to Benth, FI. 
Hongk. 214), differs in the retuse samara and the subtruncate calyx; but, if these 
characteristics are specific, the East Himalayan and Khasian examples must be referred 
to F. retusa. The Hongkong retusa differs however in the smaller samara, which 
when fully ripe is less than 1 in. The flowers appear to grow larger westward; in 
Wallich’s type example of F, floribunda the petals are fully $ in. 
4:9, F. Griffithii, Clarke; leaflets elliptic obtusely acuminate entire coria- 
ceous, secondary nerves obscure, samaras l in. very narrow obtuse or emar- 
` ginate, i 
MısnmerE ; “summit of a high mountain," Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3677). 
Griffiths example is in ripe fruit, aud is perhaps a var. of F. floribunda, but 
differs more from it and from F. retusa than these do from each other. The leaflets ` 
are very thick, acuminate, rostrate, rounded and sometimes widened at the tip. 
