LXXX. OLEACE.i:. 117 



1865! S. M. Country: Paclsliapnr, Ritchie, 1865! Kanaka: commou locally in 

 N. Kanara, Talbot.— Distri^. India (Tropical Himalaya, Central and S. India and 

 Birma). 



The leaves are eaten ag a vegetable in time of scarcity. The wood is vehite, close- 

 grained, and excellent for Uiruers. 



4. LINOCIERA, Swartz. 

 Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers in axillary or 

 extra-axillary (rarely terminal) panicles or cymes ; bracts at the divisions 

 small. Calyx small, 4-fid or 4-toothed. Petals 4, long or short, nearly 

 free or cohering in pairs or very shortly connate, iuduplicate-valvate in 

 bud. Stamens 2 ; hlaments short or ; anthers elUptic, dehiscing on 

 the margin. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous from its 

 apex ; style short ; stigma bifid or entire. Drupe ellipsoid ; endocarp 

 bony or crustaceous. Seed usually solitary, pendulous ; testa thin ; 

 albumen fleshy or ; radicle superior. — Distrib. Tropics of both hemi- 

 spheres ; species 40. 



Seeds albuminous ; petals J in. long ; ovary hairy 1. L.malabarica. 



Seeds exalbumiuous ; petals \ in. long; ovary glabrous 2. L. intermedia. 



1. Linociera malabarica, Wall. Cat. (1828) 2828. A small tree; 

 bark smooth, shining, grey, covered with raised corky dots. Leaves 

 coriaceous, glabrous, 2-5 by 1-2 in., elliptic-oblong, obtuse or suddenly 

 narrowed to a small blunt acumen, margins more or less revolute, base 

 cuneate ; main nerves inconspicuous ; petioles \-^ in. long, channelled 

 above, rugose, glabrous. Flowers yellovvisli-white with an odor of ripe 

 apples (Laiv), axillary ; peduncles fascicled (rarely paniculate), grey- 

 pilose, each bearing a small fascicle of 1-5 sessile flowers at the apex ; 

 bracts minute, hairy. Calyx J^ in. long, hairy ; lobes about -^ in. long, 

 ovate, acute. Corolla ^ in. long ; petals cohering at the very base in 

 pairs, linear-lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Anthers sessile, 1 at the base 

 of each pair of connate petals. Ovary hairy ; style scarcely any ; stigma 

 usually shortly bifid. Drupe ^-| by -^^ in., ellipsoid ; cotyledons fiat, 

 in fleshy albumen. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. (307 ; Grab. Cat. p." 109 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs.p. 159 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1246 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 218; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 164.— Flowers : Nov.-Feb. 

 Verx. Heddi. 



KoNKAN : evergreen forests, Ta^W ; kvabeghit, Kaoiitkar \ Deccan : Khandala, 

 Graham, Balzell ^~ Gibson ; Lanoli, Woodrow. S. M. Country : Ramghat, Law ex 

 Graham, Balzell 4' Gibson, Ritchie, 1835 ! ; near Hubli, Hohe.nhacker, 752 ! Kanaka : 

 evergreen forests of N. Kanara, Talbot; Gairsoppa, Z>a/-c// ! ; Mulas, Ritchie, 18351 

 — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



2. Linociera intermedia var. Roxburghii, C. B. Clarke, in. 

 Hool-.f. Fl. B. I. V. 3 (1882) p. 609. A small handsome tree. Leaves 

 3J-6 by 1^2 in., elliptic-oblong, acute or acuminate, glabrous, base 

 very acute, running down into the petiole ; main nerves about 10, 

 slender, prominent beneath ; petioles |-1 in. long. Flowers white, in 

 axillary or extra-axillary, lax, many-flowered panicles l2-2| in. long ; 

 bracts lanceolate ; pedicels yo~To i"- l^'ig- Calyx jL- in, long, glabrous; 

 lobes ovate. Corolla \ in. long; lobes 4, linear-oblong, subobtuse, 

 obscurely united in pairs at the base. Ovary glabrous ; stigma deeply 

 2-fid with divaricate lobes. Drupe |-1 in. long, ellipsoid, purple when 

 ripe. Seed exalbuminous. Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 218 ; Woodr. 



