Olea. i)lANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 105 



A small tree ; a native of the Circar mountains. Flowers during 

 the hot season. 



Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong, waved, entire, running down 

 the petiole, smooth on both sides, firm, about five inches long, and 

 two broad. — Pelwles, 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 shoxter \ border four- 

 cleft ; divisions oblong, spreading, concave ; apices sharp and incur- 

 ved. — Filaments two, opposite, short. Anthers large, oblong, erect. 

 — Germ superior, round. — Sti/le very short. Stigmatwo-clei't-, divi- 

 sions entire, acute. Ripe 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 tv/o to four broad. — Stipules^ 

 the oval concave scales of the buds only. — Panicles axillary, and op- 

 posite, below the leaves, thin and not above half their length. — Male 

 flowers more numerous, small. — Calyx four-toothed. — Coro/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 



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