Lignsirum.'] OkacCCB. I 1 9 



A small tree, bark whitish-brown, young parts glabrous ; 

 1. crowded at end of year's growth, rather small, \\-2\ in., 

 oval, acute at both ends (rarely obtusely acuminate), entire 

 (or faintly serrate near apex), margin usually narrowly re 

 curved, glabrous, stiff and coriaceous, venation depressed 

 above, rather prominent beneath, lat. veins few, nearly hori- 

 zontal, connected by an intramarginal one, petiole \ in., stout ; 

 fl. polygamous (male and bisexual), numerous, on short ped., 

 in small racemose clusters of 2-7, on branches of long-stalked 

 axillary panicles coming off from the young branchlets below 

 the 1.; cal. very small, segm. triangular, faintly ciliate; cor. 

 eampanulate, lobes as long as the tube, oval, obtuse; drupe 

 \-\ in., ovoid, endocarp thin. 



Montane zone, 4000 ft. upwards, common, especially in the N.-East 

 Mountain block. Fl. Sept.-Oct. and May; white. 

 Also in the Nilgiris. 



4. X.ZGUSTRUM, L. 



Bush or small tree, 1. opp., entire; fl. bisexual, numerous, 

 in terminal panicles; cal. small, segm. 4; cor. -tube short, 

 lobes 4; stam. 2, inserted at throat of cor.; ov. 2-celled, with 

 2 ovules in each cell, style moderately long, stigma clavate; 

 drupe ovoid, i- or 2-seeded; seed with copious fleshy endo- 

 sperm. — Sp. 25; II in Fl. B. Ind. 

 Scarcely distinct from Olea. 



Xi. Walkeri, Dene., Nouv. Arch. Mus., ser. 2, ii. 27 (1879). 



L. robustum., Thw. Enum. 188 (.? Bl.). Z. zeylanicum, Dene. 1. c. 30. 



C. P. 475- 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 614. 



A shrub or small tree, branchlets with copious white len- 

 ticels, young parts glabrous; 1. ii-3 in., oval or lanceolate, 

 acute at base, tapering to very acute apex, entire, glabrous, 

 often somewhat conduplicate, thin, lat. veins obscure, petiole 

 short ; fl. very numerous, pedicellate, in clusters on the divari- 

 cate branches of large, pubescent pyramidal erect terminal 

 panicles 4-6 in. long; cal. eampanulate, lobes very shallow 

 and broad; cor.-lobes oblong oval, subacute; stam. exserted; 

 drupe about \ in., ovoid, purple. 



Lower montane zone, 3000-5000 ft., rather rare. Haputale and Ba- 

 dulla Districts abundant. Fl. Feb.-June ; white, sweet-scented. 



Also in the Nilgiris. 



Closely allied to L. robustum, Bl. of the Malay Peninsula, Burma, and 

 E. Bengal, and perhaps merely a variety of it. 



