Osmanthus. ] XCII. OLEACEZ. (C. B. Clarke.) 607 
Carey § Wall. i. 104; Wall. Cat. 2810 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1552; Blume Mus. Bot. 
i. 316; Brand. For. Fl. 309.. O. acuminata, Wall. Cat. 2809; DC. l.c. 285. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 4-7000 ft., from Gurwhal to Sikkim; Wallich, H. X 
d T. Ee Kuasta Mrs. ; Griffith, Lobb. (According to Brandis only planted in 
Gurwhal and Kumaon).—Distris, China, Japan, cultivated. 
A small tree or a shrub. Leaves 7 by 2 in., entire in the wild plants, often 
serrated in the cultivated, coriaceous ` petiole 2 in. Pedicels 1—3 in., densely fascicled, 
often in the upper axils, rarely terminal. Calyx less than J, in., 4-toothed. Corolla 
divided nearly to the base; lobes oblong. Drupes 3 by 4 in., ellipsoid.— The fruit is 
only known from the Kumaon tree (a cultivated plant, ex Brandis). The cultivated 
O. fragrans is not known to produce fruit elsewhere. 
2. O. suavis, King in Herb. Calc. ; leaves lanceolate acute, calyx 4-4 in. 
deeply 4-lobed, corolla-tube 4-1 in. Olea sp., Griff. Itin. Notes, 156, n. 785. 
SUBALPINE HiwArAYA ; Sikkim and East Nipal, alt. 9-10,000 ft., Tonglo and 
Kalapookree, J. D. H., King; Bhotan Griffith. 
A bush, 12 ft., or a small tree (King). Leaves 34 by 1 in., acute, base cuneate, 
minutely crenate-serrate, coriaceous ` petiole 4 in. —Pedicels 0-} in., in dense axillary 
and terminal fascicles. Flowers polygamous. Caly«-lobes oblong, obtuse, micro- 
scopically pubescent. Corolla-tube + in. and upwards (both in the male and herma- 
phrodite flowers) in King's specimens ; in Griffith's varying from 45 to } in. (in flowers 
male or nearly male); corolla-lobes à in., strongly imbricated in the bud.  Anthers 
subsessile near the top of the tube, elliptic, acute, Style 4 in. tip bifid. Drupe 
t by 1-3 in. ellipsoid; endocarp thin, crustaceous. Albumen copious, fleshy.— 
iniffith made a long MS. note on this species: it does not agree well with Osmanthus 
to whieh King refers it, but there appears no other place for it unless a new genus. 
7. LINOCIERA, Swartz. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers in axillary (rarely ter- 
minal) panicles or cymes, often in small terminal fascicles; bracts at the divi- 
sions small. Calyx small, 4-fid. Petals 4, long or short, nearly free, or cohe- 
ring by pairs, or very shortly connate, induplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens 2; 
filaments short; anthers elliptic, dehiscing on the margin. Ovary 2-celled; 
style short, stigma obscurely bifid or entire; ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous 
from its apex. Drupe ellipsoid (rarely globose) ; endocarp bony or crustaceous. 
Seed usually solitary, pendulous, testa thin, albumen fleshy plentiful or 0; 
radicle superior.—DIsTRIB. Species 40, in the tropics of both hemispheres. 
Olea only differs by having the corolla more distinctly tubular. Many authors 
place the albuminous species in Olea, and the exalbuminous in Linociera; but the 
albumen is unknown in so many species that this arrangement is inconvenient, while 
it throws into different genera the very long-petaled species closely allied in every 
point except the albumen. ' 
Secr, I! Eulinociera. Seeds albuminous ( Petals elongate). 
l. L. malabarica, Wall. Cat. 2828; leaves broadly oblong hardly acu- 
minate, flowers in small clusters, calyx-lobes grey-pilose, petal 4 in. linear-lan- 
ceolate connected in pairs, ovary pilose. DC. Prodr. viii. 297; Wight Ic. 
t. 1246; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. HI 159. Chionanthus malabarica, Bedd. For. 
Man. 154, and Fl. Sylv. t. 239, fig. in corner. 
DEccAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan, Dalzell, to Courtallum, Wight; frequent. 
A small tree. Leaves 4 by 1$ in., subobtuse or very suddenly narrowed to an 
obtuse apex, base cuneate, glabrous, coriaceous, nerves obscure; petiole l in. 
Peduncles short, axillary, fascicled, numerous, grey-pilose, sparingly panicled ; 
bracts gj in., ovate, grey-pilose. Calya-lobes } in., ovate, grey-pilose on the back. 
NTC HIS ees RUPES SET 
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