18 Lxxxii. OLEACE^ (baker). [Olea. 



irile Z<and> Abyssinia : Sauien ; Mount Aber above Adesila, Schimper, 871 ! 

 The South Arrican O. laurifoLia, Lam. (O. undulata, Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. t. 2) 

 has a much more compound inflorescence and a deeply-lobed calyx. 



2. O. soxnaliensiSy Baker, A small tree with obscurely white- 

 lepidote branchlets. Leaves oblanceolate or oblanceolate-oblong, 1-H 

 in. long, narrowed from the middle to the base, subcoriaceous, bright 

 green above, covered with a thin persistent whitish coat beneath ; 

 petiole very short. Panicles short, all axillary, not seen in the flower- 

 ing stage. Calyx deeply lobed. Drupe subglobose or turbinate, not 

 more than ^ in. long and broad when dry. — 0. chrysophylla, Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 833 partly. 



irile Iiand. British Somaliland : Ahl Mountains, near Maid, 3200-5200 ft., 

 lUldehrandf, 1524! 



3. O. europsea, Linn.^ var. nubica, Schweinf. MSS. A stunted 

 bush with congested branchlets and oblong or orbicular leaves, J- J in. 

 long, subcoriaceous, green and glabrous on both surfaces, or taller with 

 thinly lepidote branchlets and short-petioled oblong obtuse minutely 

 cuspidate leaves, 1-2 in. long, green and glabrous above when mature, 

 covered with a thin persistent coat of brownish-white lepidote scales 

 beneath. Flowers and fruit not seen. 



STile Xiand. Nubia : Erkowit Mountain, near Snakin, Schweinf urth, 249 I 

 Tlie typical O. europaa, Linn., is cultivated in the island of Cazanga, near 

 Loanda, in Angola, Welwitsch, 940 ! but is regarded by Hiern (Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 

 658) as var. sativa, DC. The Nubian plant is regarded by Schweinfurth as the 

 'inaltered primitive stock of the cultivated plant : see Heart of Africa, i. 26. 



4. O. chrysophylla, Lam. ; DC. Prod. viii. 285. A tree, with 

 slender branchlets, densely lepidote upwards. Leaves lanceolate, 2-4 

 in. long, J-| in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to each end, 

 subcoriaceous, bright green and glabrous above when mature, con- 

 spicuously coated with drab or ferruginous lepidote scales beneath ; 

 petiole very short. Panicles copious, sparsely compound, all axillary, 

 1-1 J in. long ; rhachises lepidote ; bracts very minute. Calyx under 

 h lin. long, campanulate, obscurely toothed. Corolla ^ in. long; lobes 

 ovate-oblong. Drupe globose or turbinate, \ in. long when dried. — 

 A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 27; Schweinf. Beitr. El. Aethiop. 134; 

 Baker, Fl. Maurit. 219; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 333 partly; 

 Knobl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 531 ; xxviii. 450. 



irile Iiand. Eritrea: Marakhat Valley near Saganeiti, 7200-8800 ft., 

 Schiveinfurth Sf Riva, 1676 ! Abyssinia : Agame district, Schimper, 918 ! 945 ! 

 near Gondar, Steudner, 1316 ! near Fares Saber, Steudner, 1315! and without pre- 

 cise locality,' Schimper, 24 ! Quart in- Dillon Sf Petit, 290 ! Roth^ 402 ! Uganda 

 Protectorate: Butagn, Scott-Elliot, 8024! Mau, 7000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6896 1 

 British East Africa : Machakos, 5000-6000 (t., Scott-Elliot, 6583 ! 6618 ! 



nKozamb. Sist. German East Africa: Usambara; Amboni, Hoist, 25801 

 Kwa Mshuza, Hoist, 9133! TJhehe; on a hilly plateau near Hweni, 5500 ft., 

 Qoetze, 730 (ex Oilg). 



Also in Arabia, Mauritius and Bourbon. 



