606 xoi. OLEAOEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Fraxinus. 
Secr. II. Fraxinaster.  Petals 0. Flowers polygamous or dicecious. 
Pedicels in fruit racemed or subfascicled. 
3. F. excelsior, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. viii, 276; leaflets 2-5 pairs all sessile 
or nearly so, calyx in all the flowers obsolete, pedicels in fruit racemed. Engl. 
Bot. t. 1699 ; Lamk. Ill. t. 858, fig. 1; Brand. For. Fl. 308; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 
iv. 39. F. heterophylla, Vahl Enum. i. 53 (and several others). F. Moorcroft- 
iana, Wall. Cat. 2834 ; DC. l.c. 275, not of Brandis, Ornus Moorcroftiana, 
G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 57. 
TEMPERATE West Himaraya and Western TiBET, alt. 4-9000 ft.; Ladak; Moor- 
croft; Kashmir, frequent; Jacquemont ; Jamu and Kishtwar, T. Thomson.— DisTRIB. 
From the Caucasus westwards to Britain. 
A large tree. Leaflets 4 by 13 in., elliptic, acuminate, serrate sessile or very nearly 
so, midrib beneath glabrous or minutely pubescent. Flowers in short racemes, fas- 
cicled near the tips of the branches, appearing before the leaves; male and herma- 
phrodite alike without perianth. Filaments very short. Racemes in fruit 1-6 in., 
pendulous; pedicels } in.; samaras 1j by ZA in. narrowed gradually to both the 
obtuse ends.—In the absence of flowers Brandis hesitates about identifying this with 
F. excelsior, but the tree is plentiful in Kashmir hills and exactly like the common 
Ash. 
4. F. xanthoxyloides, Wall. Cat. 2833; leaflets 3-5 pairs lowest 
etiolulate, calyx 0 in the male flowers small in the hermaphrodite, pedicels in | 
bruit in very short racemes or subfascicled. DC. Prodr. viii. 275; Brand. For. 
Fl. 304; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 41. F. Moorcroftiana, Brand. For. Fl. 304, not 
of Wall. Ornus xanthoxyloides, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 57. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 3-9000 ft., abundant in 
places (Brandis).—Disrrip, Cabul and Beloochistan. 
A tree 25 ft., or more often a shrub. Leaflets 2 by 3 in., hardly acuminate, 
crenulate-serrate, glabrous, or often slightly hairy near the base of the midrib be- 
neath; lowest petiolules usually } in., distinct, sometimes subobsolete. Flowers ap- 
pearing before the leaves in dense heads, brown from the woolly bracts. Filaments 
short; anthers oblong.  Hacemes in fruit J in., or the pedicels } in., appearing fas- 
cicled. Calyx in fruit often =, in., obtuse, striated lengthwise or not. Fruit 1j by 
1} in.—The Cabul examples of Griffith have the samara 4 (sometimes very nearly 3) in. 
broad. F. dimorpha, Coss & Dur., from Algiers, does not appear to differ except in 
all the leaflets being sessile or very nearly so. 
6 OSMANTHUS, Lour. 
Evergreen shrubs or trees, glabrous. Leaves opposite, entire or serrate. 
Flowers axillary and terminal, fascicled or in very short racemes; hermaphro- 
dite or polygamous. Calyx 4-toothed or -lobed. Corolla-tube short or long; 
lobes 4, elliptic, obtuse, imbricated. Stamens 2, subsessile on the corolla-tube. 
Ovary 2-celled ; style short or cylindric, 2-lobed or subentire ; ovules 2 in each 
cell, pendulous from its apex. Drupe ovoid or globose ; endocarp bony or crus- 
taceous. Seeds pendulous, usually solitary, albumen fleshy ; radicle superior.— 
DisrRrB. Species 8, extending from the N.W. Himalaya through China and 
Japan to Western N. America. . 
The character of this genus is here considerably widened from that of Gen. Pl. 
(ii. 677), to include O. swavis, King. 
]. O. fragrans, Lour. FI. Cochinch. i, 29; leaves lanceolate acuminate, 
calyx minute, corolla less than à in. tube very short. DC. Prodr. viii. 291. 
Olea fragrans, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 18, t. 2; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 9, and Fi. Ind. ed. 
