274 OLEACE.E. 



three-lobed, velvety, dark brown. Scent very slight. 



t. 185. Wight Sp. Nilg. t. 146; Ic. t. 1233. 



Pulneys : in sholas above Kodaikanal. Nilgiris : about 

 Ootacamund flowering spring months. Fyson 2368. 



GcH. Dist. South Indian mountain tops only. Examples from Ceylon 

 though nearly allied appear to be different. 



Symplocos pcndula Wight; F.B.I, iii 587, I 60. A 

 tree with erect entire smooth leaves and small pinkish 

 flowers and narrow oblong fruits, hanging at the 

 leaf-axils. 



Tree up to 20 feet : bark rough. Leaves smooth and 



glossy, quite entire, obovate or elliptic, acute at both 



ends or bluntly acuminate 2 to 3^ by I to 2 inches, 



erect on the short pink stalk : midrib strongly impressed 



on the upper side. Flowers two or three together at the 



leaf-axils : pedicels % inch, with a small bract at the 



base, and broadening above into the ^-inch calyx-tube. 



Corolla Yz inch, pink. Style longer, with capitate stigma. 



Fruit oblong, rounded at each end, hanging, with the 



dried calyx lobes at the base quite small and contracted 



and enclosing one stone, t. 186. Wight Ic. t. 1237. 



Pulneys: in sholas on the downs 7,000 feet and above. 

 Not on the Nilgiris. Fyson 2o<)6. ^(?/^r;?^ 397, 425. 



Gen. Dist. Also Ceylon. 



OLEACE/E. 



Privet and Jasmi^ie. 



Shrubs, sometimes climbing, and trees, with opposite 

 leaves. Flowers regular with small calyx, a mono- 

 petalous corolla of five or more lobes, but only two 

 stamens, and superior ovary of two cells each with one 

 seed. Fruit a capsule drupe or berry. 



Species 300 in tropical and temperate regions. 



The family is divided into four tribes represented by d) Jasmine, (ii) 

 Lilac, (iii) Ash and (iv) Olive and Privet. The first and last only of these 

 ^re represented heye. 



