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Ligustrum. ] XCI OLEACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 615 
refers the Nilgherry portion of Ligustrum, n. 5, H. f. § T., to his L. confusum, which 
is certainly erroneous ; it is either Z. Walkeri or elosely allied thereto. 
Van. tubijlora; corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx. Olea Roxburghii, Wall. 
Cat. 2816 B only.—Deccan Peninsula; Belgaum, Dr. Ritchie; Herb. Heyne, Wallich. 
— Corolla-tube much slenderer than in L. neilgherrense, Wight ; anthers exsert.— These 
are very doubtful plants ; Ritchie’s has a bracteate panicle, and subovate leaves, but 
the drupe is as of L. Walkeri. ; 
3. L. Roxburghii, Clarke ; branches lenticellate, leaves ovate-lanceolate 
acuminate coriaceous, panicle stout pubescent, flowers clustered, corolla-tube 
broad as long as the calyx, drupe A by i in. L. Candolleanum, Blume Mus. 
Bot. i. 815, not of Dene. L. robustum, Bedd. For. Man, 154, not of Blume. 
L. compactum, Dene, in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 2, ii. 23, not of H. f. $ T. Olea 
Roxburghii, Wall. Cat. 2816, not of Spreng. nor of Wight. Visiania robusta, 
Wight Ic. t. 1242. Phillyrea terminalis, Herb. Roxb. 
Mrs. of the Deccan PxxiNsULA, alt. 4-7000 ft., very common. 
A small tree. Leaves 3} by } in., base obtuse; nerves 8 pairs, slender but well- 
defined and somewhat regular; petiole 4 in. Panicles often 8 by 6 in., brachiate ; 
bracts lanceolate, foliaceous or 0; pedicels hardly any, clusters of flowers often some- 
what whorled. Corolla 1 in., much larger than in L. robustum; tube sometimes con- 
siderably exceeding the calyx.—Blume founds his species on Wall. Cat. 2816 E, which 
he (by error) supposes to have come from Nipal. Decaisne has not included Wight's 
icon, t. 1242, in his monograph; but he has named the specimens belonging to that 
picture. L. compactum, perhaps because of the distinct regular nervation of the leaves, 
which is similar. This species has been known as “the stout Nilgherry form of L. 
robustum,” but it differs as much from L. robustum of Silhet as does any Indian 
Ligustrum. The confusion which has enveloped this species arises from its having 
been named by Wight Phillyrea paniculata, Roxb., which is = Ligustrum lucidum, 
Aiton = Olea clavata, Don = O. Roxburghii, Spreng. (Wight Ie. t. 735), a Chinese 
plant, cultivated both at Calcutta and in Europe, closely allied to L. Roxburghii, but 
having the panicle glabrous. 
4. L. neilgherrense, Wight Ic. t. 1243, not of Dene. ; leaves ovate acute 
coriaceous, panicle dense, branches glabrous lenticellate, corolla-tube twice as 
long as the calyx, drupe 4 by à in. L. Candolleanum, Dene. in Nouv. Arch. 
Mus. 2, ii. 28, not of Blume. Olea Roxburghii, Wall. Cat. 2816, E only. 
Mrs. of the Deccan PrxiNsULA, frequent; Dindyghul, Nilgherries, Bababoodun 
Hills, &e. ; 
United (very probably correctly) with L. Hoxburghii by Beddome; it differs in 
the larger flowers (eorolla-tube } in.) and in the glabrous panicle, the branches of 
wliieh are quadrangular lenticellate in fruit, instead of round and hairy as in L. Rox- 
burghii. The leaves also are not acuminate, often subobtuse, sometimes orbicular 
( by 2 in.).—Decaisne has marked a typical example of this from Herb. Wight 
(flower and fruit) L. compactum ; the Kumaon L. compactum has a shorter corolla- 
tube with reflexed lobes more elosely-nerved acuter leaves, and a very different-looking 
less rigid fruit-panicle with compressed flexuose branches. 
Var. obovata, Dene. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 2, ii. 22; leaves subobtuse, corolla 
rather shorter.— Mts. of the Deccan Peninsula,—Cannot be satisfactorily distinguished 
from L. neilgherrense. e 
5. L. Perrottetii, 4. DC. in DC. Prodr. viii. 294; branches rarely 
lenticellate, leaves smallish elliptie acute at both ends, panicles thyrsoid mi- 
nutely pubescent, eorolla-tube nearly twice the calyx, drupe 4 by jim. Wight 
Te. t. 1244; Bedd. For. Man, 153, and Anal. Gen. t. 19, fig. 5; Dene. in Nouv. 
Arch. Mus. 2, ii. 92. 
RK Mrs, of the Deccan PrxixsuLA, frequent ; Nilgherries, Pulneys, Wight, Gardner, 
ce. 
