OLEACE.E. 279 



Stamens as long as the petals, spreading outwards ; 

 anthers round. Style very short, compressed laterally, 

 green. Fruit a green drupe, /^ by !^ inch. Seed with 

 a groove on one side, and thick horny endosperm. 

 1. 188. 



Nilgiris : in sholas on the slopes of Vengadu, 7,000 feet and 

 elsewhere on the Ootacamund downs. Fyson 2462. Pulneys : 

 Gundattu shola. Bourne 1591. 



Allied to O. glandulifera IFalL, but differs in the rounder leaves and 

 few nerves. 



LIGUSTRUM. F.B.I. 92 IX. 



Privet. 



Shrubs and small trees with opposite, simple, uncut 

 leaves, and terminal panicles of small white or cream- 

 coloured flowers of four united petals. Fruits, drupe-like, 

 with one seed only enclosed in a horny endocarp, the 

 embryo having its radicle pointing upwards. 



Species 30, mostly in Asia, 14 belonging to China. 



Corolla tube twice as long as the calyx . . . L. perottetii. 

 Corolla tube shorter than the calyx ..... L. walkeri. 



Ligustrum walkcri Des7ie. I ; F.B.I. iii 614, IX 2. A 

 tree, about 20 feet : younger branches with many lenti- 

 celled and very pubescent ; older less so. Leaves 2 to 3 

 by l^ to lJ4 inches, lanceolate, acute, narrowed to the 

 base, spreading. Panicle terminal, pubescent : flowers 

 in small fascicles on its branches : pedicels 1/16 inch. 

 Corolla tube shorter or not much longer than the calyx. 

 Fruit /4 by % inch, not quite symmetrical) seated in the 

 cup-like dried calyx. 



Nilgiris : by the edges of sholas, etc., on the downs towards 

 Pykara. Kotagiri : on the Kodanad road. Pulneys : not at 

 high, only near Perumal and lower levels. Fyso?t 1799J 1752, 

 400,* 3042. Bourfie 183, 1543. 



