Linociera. | XC, OLEACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) ` 611 
Struet; Wallich. Assam; Griffith, Jenkins, Kmasta; Griffith. 
A small tree; glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 8 by 2} in. (sometimes 9} by 4 in.), 
acute at both ends, chartaceous, often punctate on the upper surface ` nerves 10-13 pairs, 
secondary distinct ; petiole 1-1} in. Panicles 1-1} in. in the type specimens, 1—4 in. 
in cultivated ones; bracts minute. Calyx glabrous, Petals obtuse, margins little 
ineurved. Ovary glabrous ; style short. ruit elongate ellipsoid, on greatly thickened 
pedicels ; endocarp crustaceous ; testa thin; albumen 0. 
Var. attenuata; panicle more lax, in fruit slenderer with pedicels less thickened. 
L. tenuiflora, Wall. Cat. 2827; DC. Prodr. viii. 298. Oleaattenuata, Wall. Cat. 2839 ; 
DO. l.c. 286. Chionanthus ramiflora, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 3, and Fl. Ind. Carey dr 
Wall. i. 106; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 301, Phillyrea ramiflora, Roxb. Ic. Ined.—Pegu 
and Tenasserim; Wallich, Griffith. Andamans; Kwrz.— Disrmim. Ava, Malaya, 
Tropical Australia.—This has been placed as a variety of L. intermedia, Wight, and 
it does not greatly differ but by the smaller flowers and the much slenderer panicle.— 
L. ramiflora, Wall. Cat. 2824 (DC. l.c. 297), cultivated specimen, is remarkable for 
the intricately divaricately ramous panicle, the pedicels being nearly all} to Lin. The 
whole series only differs in the development of the panicle, and (slightly) in the size 
of the flowers; and perhaps L. intermedia, macrophylla and ramiflora (with their 
varieties) form but one species, extending over Southern and Eastern India, Malaya 
and Australia. 
SPECIES NOT SEEN. 
L. cortwiroria, Vahl; DC. Prodr. viii, 297 ; is founded on Pluk. Alm. t. 241, fig. 
4, which represents a Ceylon shrub with leaves very villous beneath and 5-merous 
flowers, and is therefore not of the genus. 
L. ? LORANTHIFOLIA, Wall. Cat. 2842, from Amherst, has only twigs and a few 
leaves which resemble those of Salvadora persica. 
L. Murer, Van Heurck Pl. Nov. 124, collected by Griffith near Malacca, is 
perhaps Bouea microphylla, Griff.; J. D. Hook. FL Brit. Ind, ii. 21. (It has 4- 
stamens). 
Cutonantuus ? GHÆRI, Gaertn.; DC. Prodr, viii. 295; from Ceylon, of which 
the leaves and flowers are unknown, remains obseure. 
NorELXEA Posva, Don Prodr. 107; leaves opposite elliptie-oblong acuminate, 
peduncles axillary drooping clustered 1-flowered, calyx-teeth equal, stigma capitate. 
Nipat; Narainhetty, Hamilton (fide Don). Probably a Linociera. 
Leaves 4-5 by 13-2 in. Petals 4, ovate united at the base in pairs by the filaments, 
Drupe with subchartaceous endocarp.—Copied from Don. 
8. OLEA, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. Flowers small, her- 
maphrodite dicecious or polygamous, in axillary or terminal panicles; bracts 
minute. Calyx small, 4-toothed or -lobed. Corolla-tube short; lobes 4, indupli- 
cate-valvate, or 0. Stamens 2, on the corolla-tube or subhypogynous, filaments 
short; anthers oblong. Ovary 2-celled ; style short, stigma ovate or shortly 
2-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell, subpendulous or attached laterally to the septum. 
Drupe ellipsoid or subglobose, endocarp bony or crustaceous, usually 1-seeded. 
Seed pendulous, albumen fleshy ; radicle superior.—Dristr1B. Species 35 in the 
Old World, from the North Temperate Zone to South Africa and New Zealand. 
1, O. cuspidata, Wall. Cat. 2817; leaves oblong, nerves beneath en- 
tirely obscured by felted ferruginous scales, panicles short axillary, flowers 
bisexual corolloid, ovary glabrous, drupe 4 in. ellipsoid. DC. Prodr. viii. 285; 
Brand. For, Fl. 307, t. 88; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 36. O. ferruginea, Royle Iii. 
257, t. 65, fig. 1. 
NonTR. west Himaraya and KAsHMIR, alt. 2-6000 ft., frequent. Disrrip, Cabul, 
Beloochistan. 
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