4. Lihocieba.] 71. OLEACKjSS. [ 5. Ligustbuk. 



of email white flowers and broadly -oblong or ovoid drnpes 



about |". 



Singbhum near streams, not common ; Kcchang ; Neterhat, Gambia ; 

 Parasnath ; Santal Parganahs, along streams. Fls. Feby. -March. Fr. 

 takes over a year to ripen. Evergreen, renews leaves in Feby. 



L. chartaceous acute obtuse or shortly acuminate narrowed at ba*e 

 into the \-V pe+iole ; sec. n. abont lv pi-s. distinct. Fls'. in subsesBile 

 clusters on the opposite branches of the short panicle. Caly* y S ". 

 Petals 4 nearly distinct £-£'' long oblong with incurved margins. Ovary 

 2-celled. Ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous from the apex. Albumen 0. 



Var. Ro^burghii, G. B. Clarke. 



A Bmall gnarled tree very common on the top of Paras- 

 nath, not collected in flower, is this, according to exactly 

 similar specimens, in the Cal. Herb, and at Kew. 



Flowers just over in Dec Eipe fruit May. 



Quite glabrous with erecto-patent oblong shortly sudaenly acuminate 

 leaves about 4|" by IV' with- weak sec nerves reticulate within the 

 margin. Fruit a bko glaucous broadly oblong obtuse drupe %' long. 

 Seed with endosperm. 



I doubt this being a variety of L. intermedia, Wight. From the 

 albuminous seed it should be an Olea. 



Prain (Bengal Plants) includes all Chota Nagpur specimens in var. 

 EoxbuxghiL 



5. Ligustrum, L. 

 1. L. robustum, Blume. 



A small tree with bifurcate curly-pubescent tvngs, and 

 opp. lanceolate acuminate very shortly-petioled distichous 

 eaves 1J-3|". F1b. small white in terminal pubescent 

 panicles 3-8". 



BavineB in the Rajmehal hills, veu »are. 



Ij'la. June. Fr- Dec.-Jany, (I havo only een old inflorescence.) 



tenticellate pale branohlets compressed at the nodes. L. glabrous 

 (at leatt when old), narrowed at base. Sec. n. about 6 prs. rather obscure. 

 Petiole i' 7 articulate at base, the two first bracts of the axillary budi 

 often simulating intrapetiolar stipules. Caly* shortly 4-toothed. 

 CoroUa-iw&e as long as the calyx. Drupe H" oblong. 



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