Olea. | OLEACEE (Harvey). 485 
IV. OLEA, Linn. 
Calyx cupular or shortly campanulate, 4-toothed. Corolla-tube 
short ; lobes 4, spreading, induplicate-valvate. Stamens 2, inserted 
in the corolla-tube ; filaments short; anthers ovate, dorsifixed. 
Ovary 2-celled ; style short ; stigma capitate or shortly bifid ; ovules 
2 in each cell, pendulous from the inner wall. Drupe ovoid, oblong 
or globose ; endocarp bony or crustaceous. Seeds usually solitary ; 
cotyledons flat ; albumen fleshy, sometimes ruminate. 
Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite, usually quite entire ; flowers hermaphrodite 
or polygamous, in trichotomous panicles. 
Species about 40 in Central or Tropical Asia, the Mediterranean region, Tropical 
Africa, the Mascarene Islands and New Zealand. 
This genus (which was omitted from the key) differs from the other South 
African genera in having the corolla-lobes induplicate-valvate in bud and the 
ovules pendulous. From Schrebera and Menodora it also differs in having 
a drupaceous fruit, and from Jasminwm in having 4-merous flowers. 
Inflorescence axillary : 
Leaves elliptic to obovate, up to 43 by 12 in. ... (1) Pegleri. 
Leaves oblong-elliptic, up to 14 by 3 in. ... ..- (2) foveolata. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, up to 3 by Lin. ... ... (8) verrucosa. 
Inflorescence terminal : 
Leaves linear-oblong .., = ... (4) exasperata. 
Leaves from lanceolate to broadly elliptic : 
Branches of the inflorescence comparatively 
stout : 
Leaves obtuse, shortly cuneate at the base i capensis. 
Leaves acuminate at both ends ; 6) laurifolia, 
Branches of the inflorescence very slender : 
Leaves lanceolate, 24 in. by 7 lin., acumi- 
nate he 2 ove ae ive 
Leaves elliptic, 1 in. by 5 lin., shortly 
cuspidate . bey sca sti “4 
(7) Mackenii. 
(8) enervis. 
1, 0. Pegleri (C. H. Wright); branches ashy-white; leaves 
elliptic, to obovate, shortly and obtusely acuminate, cuneate at the 
base, 43 in. long, 13 in, wide, quite entire with a thickened marginal 
nerve, glabrous ; petiole 1 in. long; cymes trichotomous, 2 in. long, 
axillary near the apex of the branchlets; pedicels 14 lin. long ; 
bracteoles lanceolate, 1 lin. long, brownish; calyx 12 lin. long, 
deeply 4-lobed, glabrous ; lateral lobes ovate, obtuse, 1 lin. broad, 
other lobes 2 lin. wide, acute; corolla 21 lin. long; lobes short, 
cucullate at the apex. 
EASTERN REGION :. Transkei; near Kentani, 100 ft., Miss Pegler, 819! 
2. 0. foveolata (E. Meyer, Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. 176); a shrub 
about 12 ft. high ; branches ashy-grey ; leaves oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 
cuneate at the base, 1} in. long, 9 lin. wide, sometimes with small 
pits in the axils of the veins on the lower surface, coriaceous, entire, 
glabrous; flowers in short axillary cymes; calyx-lobes rotundate, 
puberulous ; corolla 13 lin. long; lobes ovate, obtuse, eucullate ; 
