-26 OLEACEM. [Olea. 



oblong ciliate lobe?. Capmle pendulous, 2 in. long, pear shaped, hard 

 and woody, surface rough with white raised speck?. Seeds 3-4 in each 

 cell. 

 Forests of Bundelkhand and Merwata. Flower3 February- April, frag- 

 rant at night. Distrib. Subtropical Kutnaon up to 1,500 feet, N. 

 Bengal, Chota Nagpur and from the Central Provinces to the drier 

 parts of S. India; also in Upper Burma. The grey close-grained 

 wood is largely used in turnery. 



4. LINOCIERA, Swartz ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 607. 



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

 (rarely terminal) panicles or cymes, often in small terminal fascicles, 

 bracts small. Calyx small, 4-fid. Petals 4, nearly free, or cohering 

 in pairs, or shortly connate, iodnplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens 2, 

 filaments short, attached at the ba*e of the petals. Ovary 2-celled, 

 style short, stigma obscurely bind or entire ; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 pendulous. Drupe ellipsoid ; endocarp bony or crustaceous. Seed 

 usually solitary, pendulous, testa thin, albumen fleshy or 0, radicle 

 superior. — Species about 40, in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



L. intermedia, va.r. Eoxburghii, Clarke in F. B. I, iii, 609 ; Watt 

 E. D. ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 117 ; Prain Beng. PI. 660. Olea panicalata, 

 Roxb. Sort. Beng. 80 ; Fl. lad. i (1320), 101 (lot of E. Br.). 



Usually a small tree, the branches covered with white lenticels. Leaves 

 (including petiole) 3|-5 in. long by 1-li in wide, elliptic or oblanceo- 

 late, acute or bluntly acuminate, papsry, erlabrous, nerves prominent 

 beneath; petiole ?-l in. long. Flowers white, in axillary or extra 

 axillary rather dense thyreoid panicles, ^which become lax after flower- 

 ing ; bracts falcate-lanceolate, equalling or exceeding the pedicels. 

 Ca ly x re in. long, glabrous, lobes ovate. Corolla-lobes linear-oblong, 

 cohering by pairs at the base. Ovary glabrous, stigtnatic lobes 

 divaricate. Drupe about i in. long, ellipsoid, 1-seeded, purple when 

 ripe. Seed exalbuminous. 



Kansrao on the Dehra Dun Siwalik range (Edge worth), a id in the Sab- 

 Himalayan tracts rf Kheri and Gonda in N. Oada. Ui.steib. Chota 

 Nagpur, Ceat. and S. India. 



5. OLEA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 611. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothel. Flowers 

 ■small, hermaphrodite dioecious or polygamous, in axillary or extra- 

 axillarv (rarelv terminal) panicles, bracts minute. Calyx small, 

 4-toothed or-lobed. Corolla-tube short lobis 4, iuduplicate-valvate, 



