87. OLEACE^. [6. Ligustrum. 



1. Olea dioica, Roxh. 



A small tree with ovate or ovate-lanceolate leaves or sometimes 

 elliptic or oblanceolate leaves always toothed or serrate 4-7" long- 

 and slender lax panicles of flowers with a gi-een or white corolla is 

 frequently foiind in the Tarai and Duars and niig-ht therefore be 

 found in Pvirneah. It flowers in March. 



6. LIGUSTRUM, L. Privet. 



Trees or shrubs with often conspicuously lenticellate branchlets 

 and entire leaves ; the pair of small bracts in the axils belonging to 

 undeveloped axillary shoots sometimes resemble stipules. Flowers 

 small white in terminal panicles. Calyx small truncate or 4-toothed. 

 Corolla tube very short or long, petals induplicate-valvate in bud. 

 Ovules 2 in each cell, axile near the top, style i-ather long, stigma 

 subclavate 2-lobed. Drupe 1-3-seeded with endocarp thin or char- 

 taceous. Testa thin, albumen fleshy, radicle superior. 



Flowers "OO-'l" diam. Drupes '^-'o" long 1. rohustnm. 



Flowers ■ 16-" 17" diam. Drupes 'S-'SS" long 2. Roxhurghii. 



(The smallness of the drupesin i2oa'6«r^/a* may be due to their not loeing fully 

 developed.) 



1. L. robustum, Blume. Haduali, Or. 



A large shrub or small tree (or, fide A.L.Banarjee, sometimes a big 

 tree), with lenticellate twigs and pubescent shoots. Leaves glabrous, 

 distichous membranous when young, lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or 

 elliptic, \isually narrowed both ends, sometimes acuminate, 2'o-45" 

 with about 8 sec. n., petiole •l-"2". Flowers very small, •09-"l" long 

 just before petals spread and about -1" diam. after expansion, 

 racemed and clustered on the obliquely spreading densely pubescent 

 branches of terminal pyramidal panicles 6-10" long. Drupes •4--5 

 narrowly oblong, often slightly obliqvie. 



Ravines in the Rajmahal Hills, rare ! Mais of Puri near streams and on hillsides 

 to the tops of the mountains! Fl. June-August. Fr. Dec-Jan. 



Branches compressed at the nodes, often bifurcate, pubescence curly. Sec. nerves 

 5-8 irregular and fine, obscure beneath. Petiole articulate at the base, the two first 

 bracts of the axillary buds often simulate intrapetiolar stipules. Calyx campanulate, 

 ■05-'06" long, minutely 4-toothed. Corolla-tube scarcely as long, petals oblong obtuse, 

 ultimately spreading or reflexed. Bracts subulate, uearly^equal to the "OG" long 

 pedicels in flower. 



2. L. Roxburghii, Clarke. Haduali, Or. 



Scarcely distinguishable from the last except by the larger flowers. 

 The leaves seem to be usually smaller 1-5-3", sec. n. less prominent 

 5-6. Panicle glabrous or pubescent, brachiate (at least in fruit). 

 Fls. -14" long just before petals spread, and -le-'lT" diam. after 

 spreading, calyx 06" long. Drupes 3-'S5" long by •2--2o" wide, 

 oblong, slightly curved 1-2-seeded seated on the small 4-lobed calyx 

 and thick "IS" long pedicel. 



Mais of Puri, Berberah ! 



My specimens are only in fruit, and flowers are required to make quite sure of the 

 identification. 



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