OLEACE^. 27; 



the corolla-tube at the base ; stigma large, exserted above 

 the corolla. Fruit of two globose berries, /i to J^ inch 

 each. Wight Sp. Nilg. 151. 



Nilgiris : near sholas, all over the downs flowering April. 

 Pulneys : Glen falls near Kodaikanal, etc., apparently nowhere 

 else. Fyson 295, 2554, 1692. Bourne 228. 



The style is too long for the bud and is bent up inside it. 

 When the flower opens the style straightens and carries the 

 apparently ripe stigma outside and well above the anthers. 

 The stigma is large and could hardly fail to be touched by an 

 insect visiting the flower. 



I have not seen authentic specimens of J. humile Z., with which this is 

 united in F.B.I.; but in his description (Sp. PI.) Linnaeus says distinctly 

 '• leaves trifoliate, very seldom pinnate." He gives no country of origin, 

 and Alton, to whom reference is made, in Hortus Kewensis, only says that 

 it is a garden plant brought from Italy. De Candolle in Prod. VIII, 

 p. 313, gives France and Spain as the home of plant. The figure in Bot. 

 ^^g'> t- 350> shows trifoliate leaves and a salver-shaped corolla, i.e., with 

 narrow tube and spreading lobes, clearly a different plant from ours. 

 J. wallichianum Lindl. Bot. Mag. t. 1409, a synonym in the F.B.I., is a 

 native of Nepal and has pinnate leaves, larger than our plant and more like 

 J. officinale, but the flowers of J. humile L. J. chrysanthemum of Roxburgh 

 appears from his description to be the same. J. revolutum Sijns, Bot. Reg. 

 t, 1 73 1, another synonym, has larger leaflets aud very much larger flowers, 

 with wide spreading lobes and short tube. 1 cannot doubt that all these 

 are really distinct from our plant, and have therefore gone back to 

 Wallich's name, published by De Candolle. Other sheets at Kew from 

 South India are Gardner in 1847. Hooker and Thompson No. 2888. 

 W. Russell in 1838. F'oulkes " J. revolutum in 1850 and 1851. Hohenacker 

 No. 1079. Wight Kew Dist. 1753. 



LINOCIERA. F.B.I. 92 VII. 



Shrubs or trees with the characters of the family 

 (q.v.), but simple entire leaves and axillary panicles of 

 small flowers, characterised by the four petals being 

 separate or connected only at the base, and valvate in 

 bud ; the fruit with hard endocarp and a single pendulous 

 seed. 



Species 40, in the tropics. 



Linocicra intermedia Wight; F.B.L iii 609, VII 6. 

 A tree. Leaves 6 to 8 inches by 2 to 3 inches, obovate- 

 acute at both ends, shortly stalked, glabrous, with about 



