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pressed above, raised beneath ; main-nerves obscure, 8 to 10 pairs, 

 arching upwards to join in a looped nerve near the margin, impressed 

 above ; petiole -i in. long. Floivers in axillary or extra-axillary, leafy, 

 tri-pinnate, minutely pubescent, paniculate cymes, 3 to 6 in. long, 

 branches trichotomous, ultimate cymes umbellate ; bracts leafy, oblong 

 or lanceolate, "5 to 1"5 in. long; pedicels slender, -05 to '1 in. long; 

 bracteoles minute, ovate-acute. Calyx minutely pubescent, -05 in. long ; 

 lobes 4, ovate, obtuse. Corolla tubular-campanulate, "15 in. long; lobes 

 4, rounded, "05 in. long. Stamens very small, inserted at the base of 

 the corolla-tube ; filaments very short ; anthers ovoid, sub-extrorsely 

 dehiscent. Ovary ovoid ; style none ; stigma capitate ; cells 2, ovules 2 

 in each cell. Drupe not seen. A. DC. Prod. VIII. 286 ; Kurz in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 245, and For. Fl. II. 157 ; Clarke in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. III. 613. 



Penang : Curtis 222, 950, 2267. — Disteib. Burma. 



2. Olea maritima, Wall. Cat. 2813 (1829). A large shrub or small 

 tree ; branchlets terete, pale brown ; innovations minutely pubescent. 

 Leaves coriaceous ; elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, cuneate or 

 somewhat rounded at base ; glabrous on both surfaces ; margins entire 

 or distantly serrate on their upper half ; 3 to 4 in. long, 1 to 2 in. 

 broad ; midrib slender, impressed above, raised beneath ; main-nerves 

 obscure, 7 to 10 pairs, meeting near the margin in a looped intramarginal 

 nerv6; reticulations scanty; petiole -2 to "3 in. long, minutely pubescent 

 when young, finally glabrous. Floivers dull white, polygamous, in 

 slender, minutely pubescent, trichotomous paniculate cymes with few 

 branches ; ultimate cymes umbellate, usually -75 to 1 in. long in flower, 

 up to 1-5 in. long in fruit, rarely axillary, usually extra-axillary; each 

 pair of peduncles supported by a pair of ovate lanceolate leafy bracts 

 •3 to -5 in. long; common peduncles -7 in. long; pedicels -05 to -1 in. 

 long, bracteoles none. Calyx -05 in. long, minutely rusty-pubescent ; 

 tube short ; lobes 4, ovate-acute, as long as tube. Corolla campanulate, 

 •1 to "15 in. long ; lobes 4, obtuse, as long as tube, induplicate-valvate, 

 apparently absent in J . Stamens -07 in. long, inserted near the 

 base of the corolla-tube ; filaments slender ; anthers as long as filaments, 

 reniform, cells sub-extrorsely dehiscing. Ovary conical ; style none ; 

 stigma capitate ; cells 2, ovules in each cell pendulous. Drupe 

 globose,- -2 in. in diam., black when ripe, wrinkled when dry; 

 exocarp thin, fleshy, endocarp crustaceous. Seed 1, testa very thin, 

 albumen copious; cotyledons elliptic, nearly -1 in. long; radicle some- 

 what thick. G. Don Gen. Syst. IV. 49; A.DC. Prod. VIII. 288; 

 288 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 612 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 547. 



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