234 OLACINE& (Sond.) [ Ximenia. 
pules 4 line long. Peduncles 4 lines ; petals 2 lines long. Stamens 10, fil. connate 
at base. Styles 3. 
2. E. pictum (E. Mey.! in Herb. Drege); glabrous; branches terete, 
slightly angled by the decurrent petiole; branchlets compressed ; leaves 
short-stalked, obovate-oblong or obovate, very obtuse, slightly emargi- 
nate, obtuse at base, sub-coriaceous, opaque and nearly veinless (or faintly 
veined) on both surfaces, pale below ; stipules soon deciduous, membranous, 
longer than the petiole; peduncles about 2, axillary ; calyx-lobes trian- 
gular ; drupe oblong. 
Has. In the valley, near the river, between Omsamculo and Omcomas, towards 
Port Natal, Drege. April. Albany. Mrs. 7. W. Barber! (Herb. Sond., T.C.D.) 
Branches here and there tubercled. Leaves 2-21 inches long, 11-14 lines wide, 
when dry (often) dark red on the upper side, with a very narrow white margin, 
without evident veins ; below pale, the mid-rib purpurascent, the primary veins ob- 
solete, secondary immersed. Petioles 2-3 lines ; stipules 3 lines long. Peduncles 
4 lines long. Calyx very short, exceeded by the staminal tube. Petals not seen. 
Drupe 4 lines long, blackish-blue. This differs from the preceding by its thicker 
branches and larger and neither glossy nor conspicuously netted leaves. Mrs. Barber's 
specimens (in Herb. T.C.D.) are less brightly coloured, with rather more evident 
nerves. 
Orver XXVII. OLACINEA, Mirb. 
(By W. Sonper. ) 
(Mirb. Bull. Philom. (1813.) DC. Prod. 1. p.-531. Endl. Gen. No. 
cexxiii, Benth. Linn. Trans, 18. p.676. Olacacex, Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 
No. clxii. Olacacew, Icacinacese and Aptandraces, Miers.) 
Flowers perfect, regular. Calyx small, free or partly adnate, truncate 
or toothed, unchanged or enlarged in fruit. Petals 4-6, hypogynous or 
sub-perigynous, with valvate zstivation, free, or united in pairs, or com- 
bined at base into a tube. Stamens as many or twice as many as the 
petals, inserted with them, coalescing or free ; those opposite the petals 
often barren ; anthers introrse, 2-celled, slitting lengthwise. Ovary 
seated on a small or thickened torus, which is sometimes concrete with 
the calyx, unilocular, or spuriously or incompletely 3-4-celled, or rarely 
excentrically 3-celled. Ovules 2-4, collateral, rarely solitary, pendulous 
from the summit of a free-central placenta, or attached to the sides of 
_ the ovary or spurious dissepiments ; style simple ; stigma trancate or 
lobed. _Drupe subtended by the unaltered or enlarged calyx, one-celled 
and one-seeded (rarely 2-3-seeded). Seed with much albumen, and a 
Small, axile or basal embryo. 
or shrubs, erect or climbing, unarmed or spiny, glabrous or thinly pubes- 
of the tropics and subtropical regions of both hemispheres." Leaves 
uple, very entire, exsti , without glands. Flowers sometimes poly- 
either axi racemose, or cymose, or terminal and 
Solitary. Bracts , more often minute, rarely the 
es small, connate in a cup or none. . Only two South 
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