1 1 6 OleaceCE. [Linodera. 



A small erect shrub, branchlets angular, glabrous ; 1. 

 pinnate, rachis i-i| in., Iflts. 5 (2 pair and an end one), 

 lanceolate-oval, obscurely stalked, acute at both ends, narrowly 

 reflexed on margin, glabrous ; fl. rather large, 1-3 together, 

 terminal or leaf-opposed, ped. f in., drooping, thickened below 

 fl. ; cal. glabrous, segm. short, triangular, acute; cor, about 

 I in., tube funnel-shaped, lobes 5, short, recurved, rotundate; 

 ripe carp. | in., nearly globose, pulpy. 



Upper montane zone ; very rare. Elephant Plains (Gardner) ; Kanda- 

 pola (Nock); Horton Plains. Fl. May; yellow. 



Also in the Himalayas and Nilgiris. 



The Fl. B. Ind. makes this 'common' in Ceylon as well as in S. India, 

 but it is very local here. Well known in Europe as a hardy garden shrub. 



\^Nyctanilies Arbor-trisHs^ L.,is cultivated and well known as ' Sepala' 

 or ' Sepalika,' and was collected by Hermann and Grimm. It is Fl. Zeyl. 

 n. II and C. P. 1808, but is not native here. One of the dyes for the 

 Buddhist monks' yellow robes is obtained from the flowers.] 



2. IiINOCIERA, Sw. 



Trees or shrubs, 1. opp., entire, fl. small in paniculate or 

 racemose axillary cymes; cal. small, segm. 4; cor, split almost 

 or quite to base into 4 linear lobes or pet., induplicate-valvate 

 in bud; stam, 2, inserted at very base of cor,, fil. very short; 

 ov, 2-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell, stigma 

 bilobed ; fruit a drupe with a woody or crustaceous endocarp ; 

 seed usually solitary, without endosperm. — Sp. 40; 11 in Fl. 

 B. Ind. 



Cymes paniculate i. L. purpure.a. 



Cymes simply racemose. 



Fruit smooth 2. L. albidiflora. 



Fruit rough 3. L. leprocarpa. 



I. Zi. purpurea, Vahl, Enicm. i. 47 (1805). Geriata, S. Kat- 

 tixnuruchan, T. 



Herm. Mus. 23. Fl. Zeyl. n. 14. CJiionanthus zeylanica, L. Sp. PI. 8. 

 Moon Cat. 3. Thw. Enum. 188. Thoiatna ituians, L. f. Suppl. PI 8g. 

 Chionantlius purpurea^ Lam. 111. i. 30. C. P. 1818. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 608. 



A small tree, bark white or grey, smooth, twigs slender, 

 lenticellatc, young parts glabrous; 1, 2-3 in., obovate-oval, 

 much tapering to base, rounded or very shortly and bluntly 

 acuminate at apex, glabrous, coriaceous, venation very incon- 

 spicuous; fl. numerous, usually on short pcd., in lax glabrous 

 paniculate cymes ii-3 in. long; cal. glabrous, segm. rounded, 



