Olea. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ; 105 
A small tree ; a native of the Circar mountains, Flowers during 
the hot season. ; 
Leaves opposite, eer oblong, waved, entire, running down 
the petiole, smooth on both sides, firm, about five inches long, and 
two broad. —Petiles an inch and half long, smooth, flat above. 
—Stipules none.— Panicles below the leaves, and also from the ax- 
ills, small, thin, brachiate.— Bractes small, nearly sessile. — Calyx 
four-cleft, small.— Coro one- petalled ; tube shorter; border four- 
cleft; divisions oblong, spreading, concave ; apices dui and incur- - 
val. is Ra two, opposite, ‘short, Anthers large, oblong, erect. 
—Germ superior, round.— Style very short. ‘Stigma two-cleft ; divi- 
- sions entire, acute. T fruit not observed. : 
3. O. dioica. R. 
Arboreous, dioicous. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, 
serrate. Panicles axillary. | 
: Atta-jam, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indigenous; also 
. on the hills of Chittagong. In both places it grows to be a pretty 
large tree, the timber of which is reckoned excellent, and put to 
many uses by the natives. Flowering time the month of March and 
April ; fruit ripe in July. 
_ Bark of the old ligneous parts ash-coloured ; of the young shoots 
smooth and green.— Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, tapering 
equally at each end, remotely, and acutely serrate, acuminate, smooth, 
- from four to eight inches long, by from two to four broad.— Stipules, 
the oval concave scales of the buds only.—Panicles axillary, and op- 
posite, below the leaves, thin and notabove half their length.— Male 
flowers more numerous, small.—Calyx four-toothed.—Corol one-pe- 
talled, tube very short; border four-parted.— Filaments two, very 
short, inserted on the short tube of the corol. Anthers oval, hid in the 
corol.— Germ none, a small two-lobed gland supplies its place.— 
Female on a separate tree, (probably HERMAPHRODITE, and in that 
“Case, all the corols with the stamina, must have fallen off at a very 
