4. LiNOCiEKA.J 87. OLEACE^. 



1, L. malabarica, Wall. Pochandia, Or. 



A small or mod. -sized tree with very pale twigs, glabrous elliptic, 

 oblong or obovate leaves 2-4"5", rounded obtuse or shortly cuspidate, 

 rarely acute, with about 10 obscure spreading sec, n. looping within 

 the margin. Fls. small Avhite remarkable for the elongate caudate 

 petals, •2-*25" long which adhere in pairs, clustered at the ends of 

 axillary peduncles or of the branches of short panicles about \" long, 

 or peduncles solitary from the axils of caducous scales on the new 

 shoots. Drupe '^-b" obliquely oblong, endocarp thin, seed albu- 

 minous. 



Mais of Puri, in evergreen forest, frequent ! Angul and Narsingpur, near nalas 

 and ravines ! Fl. March- April. Fr. the following March-April. Evergreen, 

 renewing leaves April. 



Trunk 2-5 ft. girth. Bark light grey nearly smooth roughish with lenticels, blaze 

 rough speckled light brown, soon darkening. Leaves with a thin pale margin. 

 Petiole thick '\b-'d" long, brownish. Inflorescence and calyx grey-sericeous. Fls. 

 sessile or subsessile. Sepals ovate '05" or less. Young fruit with minute ciliate 

 scales, 



A fine wood, very like boxwood. Wt. G.5 lbs. Gamble, 



2. L. intermedia, Wight. Suliuli-Kuda, Deori Kuda, K. ; Musur- 



danta. Or. 

 A small or sometimes a large glabrous tree with leaves 3-8", oblong 

 ell. -oblong or almost lanceolate oblong, shortly, usually suddenly 

 acuminate, minutely dotted beneath, base tapering or acute, sec. n. 

 8-10 distinct both sides but fine, usually showing pale above when 

 fresh, looped and tertiaries very reticulate, petiole 'S-9". Fls. small 

 white in axillary pyramidal panicles 2-4" long. Drupe blue-purple 

 pruinose oblong obtuse S-'T' long, often oblique from insect 

 jDuncture, exalbuminous. 



Frequent near streams in the Central and Southern tracts ! Singbhum ! Ranchi 

 ghats and Neterhat, elev. 3000 ft.! Sautal P, ! Mayurbhanj, ascending to top of 

 Meghasani! Bonai, Cooper \ Augul ! Sambalpur ! Kalahandi ! Fl. Feb.-April, 

 Fr, (takes a year to ripen) March-May, Evergreen, renews leaves at the time of 

 flowering. 



Attains 5 ft. girth with nearly smooth brownish bark and rather hard mixed 

 white and brown blaze. Twigs pale brown often markedly lenticellate. Panicles 

 at the base of the new shoots lax brachiate glabrous, the fls. in subsessile clusters 

 on the branches. Sep. triangular. Petals nearly free "lo" oblong with incurved 

 margin. 



Var. Roxbupghii, Clarice, is separated by the panicles being 

 smaller than in the type and the drupe under -5". The Bonai and 

 Kalahandi plants have drupes 'T-'e" and may therefore be considered 

 so far typical, but there seems no sharp line of demarcation. 



At the top of Parasnath is a small form which only I would refer to var. 

 Roxhurghii. It has erecto-patent oblong shortly suddenly acuminate leaves about 

 4'5" by I'o" only, with weak nerves. Frt. blue pruinose '5'' long, in my specimens 

 nlbuminvu* ! Possibly the endosperm is late iu absorption, I have not seen the 

 flowers, nor apparently had Clarke, and it might be a different species or genus. 



5. OLEA, L. Olive. 



Olea differs from Linociera in the longer tube of the corolla and 

 the flowers are dioecious or polygamous. The albumen fleshy. 



The small tree occurring on the top of Parasnath referred to under Linociera, of 

 which the flowers have not been seen, has albuminous eeeds and may be an Olea. 



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