604 



xcn. OLEACE/E. (C. B. Clarke.) 



Erect, 30 ft., but often forming coppice, scabrid-pilose. 

 acute, base rounded or cuneate ; petiole ^ in., not articulated, 

 head, sweet-scented; bracts - in., elliptic. Calyx | in. 



\_Sclirebera. 



lobes -|- in., elliptic. Capsule f in. long and broad by | in. thick. 



Flowers 3-7 

 Corolla-tube 



in each 



3. SCHREBERA, Roxb. 



A tree. Leaves opposite, unequally pinnate. Flowers in terminal 2-3- 

 chotomous compound cymes ; bracts small. Calyx tubular-campanulate, ir- 

 regularly 4-7-lobed. Corolla salvershaped ; tube cylindric ; lobes imbricate in 

 the bud, 4-7 j patent. Stamens 2, near the top of the corolla-tube ; filaments 

 short. Ovary 2-celled ; style cylindric, shortly 2-lobed ; ovules 3-4 in each cell, 

 pendulous from its apex. Capsule obovoid, 2-celled, loculicidally 2-valved, 

 woody. Seeds pendulous, winged, albumen ; cotyledons plano-convex or con- 

 torted, radicle superior. DISTRIB. Species 4 ; 1 Indian, 3 African. 



S. swietenioides, Roxb. Cor. PL ii, t. 10], and Fl. Ind. ed. Carey $ 

 Wall. i. 109 ; minutely pubescent or glabrous, leaves 5-7-foliolate, cymes many- 

 flowered, capsule 2 in. pearshaped. Wight III t. 162 ; Trattin, Arch. i. 29, 

 with plate ; DC. Prodr. viii. 675 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 248 ; Brand. For. Fl. 305 ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 156, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 243. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Kumaon Terai. DECCAN PENINSULA, alt. 1-4000 ft. PEGU ; 

 widely diffused, but not abundant. 



A tree, 40-50 ft. Leaflets 4 by 2 in., ovate, acute, mature glabrous ; petiolules 

 ^ in. Cyme often 100-flowered; bracts | in., linear, or obsolete; pedicels 0J in. 

 Calyx in., irregularly 5-lobed, somewhat 2-lipped or subtruncate, minutely pilose or 

 glabrescent. Corolla white with brown marks ; tube | ^ in. ; lobes i- in., elliptic. 

 Anthers subexserted. Capsule 2 by l in., obovoid, obtuse, very woody. Seeds 

 usually 3-4 in each cell ; cotyledons contorted. 



VAR. pubescens, Kurz in Flora, 1872, p. 398 (sp.); leaves pubescent, cyme villous. 

 Jubbulpore ; Kurz. A variety of S. 'swietenioides according to Kurz himself in 

 Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 243, who says that the capsules are much smaller. 



4. SYRINGA, Linn. 



Shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple or (in cultivation) pinnate. Panicles ter- 

 minal ; bracts small or 0. Calyx small, campanulate, irregularly toothed or 

 subtruncate, persistent. Corolla salvershaped ; tube narrow-cylindric ; lobes 4, 

 patent, elliptic, induplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens 2, near the top of the 

 corolla-tube ; filaments short ; anthers oblong, laterally dehiscent. Ovary 

 2-celled ; style cylindric, included, 2-partite or subsimple ; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 pendulous from its apex. Capsule oblong, subterete, loculicidally 2-valved. 

 Seeds pendulous, compressed, winged, albuminous; cotyledons flat, radicle 

 superior. DISTRIB. Species 6 (or 11 ex Dene.), from Eastern Europe to Japan. 



1. S. persica, Linn.; DC. Prodr. viii. 283 ; leaves 1 in. ovate-lanceolate 

 or lanceolate glabrous, flowers numerous scarcely fascicled. Bot. Mag. t. 486 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 2832 ; Brand. For. Fl. 306 ; Rev. Hort. 1878, p. 571-2, with Jig. ; 

 Dene, in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 2, ii. 42 ; JBoiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 38. 



WEST KASHMIR; alt. 8000 ft., possibly wild; frequently cultivated in India. 

 DISTRIB. Persia. 



A glabrous shrub. Leaves acute, rarely obtuse, sometimes pinnatifid or sub- 

 pinnate, base cuneate ; petiole % in. Panicles compound, glabrous ; bracts from in. 

 lanceolate to in. linear, usually inconspicuous ; pedicels ^-| in. Calyx \ in., teeth 

 short, triangular. Corolla lilac or white ; tube \ in., lobes \ in. Capsule ^-\ by 

 in., terete, 4-ribbed. Persian Lilac. 



