614 SOL, OLEACEE. (C. D. Clarke.) [ Ligustrum. 
9. LIGUSTRUM, Linn. 
Shrubs or trees; branchlets often lenticellate. Leaves opposite, entire, gla- 
brous when mature, except in Z. nepalense, var. vestita. DPanicles terminal, 
sometimes with foliaceous bracts in the lower part, flowers white or nearly so. 
Calyx small, truncate or shortly 4-toothed. Corolla funnelshaped, tube long or 
short; løbes 4, induplicate-valvate. Stamens 2, on the corolla-tube, filaments 
short; anthers oblong or rounded. Ovary 2-celled ; style longish, stigma sub- 
clavate oblong hardly 2-tid. Drupe 1—3-seeded ; endocarp chartaceous or thin. 
Albumen fleshy ` radicle superior.—Disrrre, Species 25, from Europe through- 
out Asia to Australia, 
* Drupe longer than broad, 
1. L. robustum, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 813; branches very lenticellate, 
leaves elliptic narrowed at both ends, nerves slender irregular, panicle large 
hairy, corolla-tube as long as the calyx, drupe A by } in. Dene. in Nouv. Arch. 
Mus, 2, ii. 29, not of Brand. or Bedd. L. pubescens, Wall. Cat. 2841; Pl. As. 
Rar. iii, 44; DC. Prodr. vii. 294. L. punctatum, Grif. Notul. iv. 741. 
Phillyrea robusta, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 3, and Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. i. 101. 
Olea robusta, Wall. Cat. 2822; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 158, and in Journ. As. Soe. 
1877, pt. ii, 244. Visiania robusta, DC. Le, 289; Deless. Ic. Sel. v. t. 44, V, 
sumatrana, Mig. Ft. Ind. Bat. ii. 549. 
Easr BENGAL Pram ; Silhet, Dacca, Chittagong, &e.; abundant near the base of 
the hills. Psev; Kurz.—Distris, Birma, Malaya. 
A tree, attaining 60 ft. ; usually a large shrub. Leaves 3} by 14 in., membranous ; 
nerves somewhat distaut, difficult to eount from their irregularities and interposed 
scarcely less distinct other nerves; petiole} in.  Panicles often 12 by 10 in., pubes- 
cent or almost villous ; bracts 0 ; bracteoles 4. in., linear; pedicels (in flower) 0—1 in., 
the flowers all scattered not clustered. Corolla small, white. Style long, or (fide 
Griffith) hardly any (is the species dimorphic ?). Drupe cylindric, often curved and 
more or less glaucous.—Many of the species that follow are difficult to separate from 
this; and, when it is said that this East Bengal plains plant is not L. robustum of 
Brandis, all that is intended is that the long-fruited Silhet species (Roxburgh's type) 
has not been sent from the North-west Himalaya. Dr. Brandis may very probably be 
right in thinking plants he has seen there to be not specifically distinet. 
Var. khasiana ; panicle smaller denser, pedicels in flower 0, drupe 1-3 by 3-2 in. 
very glaucous. Ligustrum sp. n. 5, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. 4 T. Olea, n. 446, Griff. 
Notul. iv. 29.—Khasia, alt. 4000 ft. ; Griffith, H. f. & T., &c.—A stunted small tree, 
perhaps a high-level form of the plains' L. robustum, but appears more distinct than 
species admitted by authors. In Griffith's examples the fruiting panicle in L. robustum 
type is diffuse with scattered fruit, in var. Ahasiana it is close erect rigid with erect 
fruits and 4-angled lenticellate branches ; the fruits are searcely more than half the size 
of those of L. robustum. But the series Ligustrum, n. 5, H. f. 4. T., includes an 
example gathered at Chela (alt. 1000 ft.) which is intermediate in character. 
2. L. Walkeri, Dene. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 2, ii. 27; branches lenticel- 
late, leaves elliptic acuminate, nerves slender irregular, panicle large compound 
minutely pubescent, corolla-tube hardly as long as the calyx, drupe } by à in. 
L. ceylanicum, Dene. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 2, ii. 80. L. robustum, Thwaites 
Enum, 188. 
Cryton ; ascending to 5060 ft., frequent ` Walker, Thwaites (n. 475, 494, &c.). 
NirongnnrES ; Herb. Ind, Or. H. f. d. T., n. 5, partly. 
Very near L. robustwnm, and perhaps only the Ceylon form of it as Thwaites con- 
sidered ; the drupes, however, are very much shorter, broader, and somewhat obovoid, 
the panicle is more obscurely pubescent, the leaves rather more coriaceous. Decaisne 
