Syringa.] xcn. OLEACEJ;. (C. B. Clarke.) 605 



2. S. Emodi, Wall. Cat, 2831 ; leaves 2-5 in. elliptic or ovate glabrous 

 whitened beneath, panicles dense, flowers often fascicled. Royle 111. 267, t. 65, 

 fig. 2 ; DC. Prodr. viii. 283; Bot. Reg. 31 (1845), t. 6; Brand. Far. Fl. 306 ; 

 Decne. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 2, ii. 40. 



STJBALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 9-12,000 ft., from Kashmir to Kumaon, frequent; 

 Wallich, Falconer, &c. 



A large shrub. Leaves 3^ by If in., acute at both ends, secondary nerves pro- 

 minently reticulating beneath ; petiole ^-| in. Panicles dense-flowered ; bracts lan- 

 ceolate, deciduous, usually inconspicuous ; pedicels often 0, sometimes ^ in. Calyx 

 in., sub truncate, minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous. Corolla purplish' or white ; 

 tube in. ; lobes i in. Capsule - in., terete, 2-grooved, acute. 



5. FRAXXNUS, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves opposite, unequally pinnate. Inflorescence terminal or on 

 shortened axillary buds falsely axillary. Flowers small, polygamous or dioecious, 

 panicled, racemose or subfascicled ; bracts caducous. Calyx small, 4-toothed, 

 or 0. Petals 0, or 24, free or connate in pairs at the base, narrow-oblong, in- 

 duplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens 2, attached near the base of the petals or 

 subhypogynous, filaments short or long. Ovary 2-celled ; style short or long, 

 bifid ; ovules in each cell 2, pendulous from its apex. Capsule sainaroid, com- 

 pressed contrary to the partition, produced into a wing, 1-seeded, indehiscent. 

 Seed pendulous, oblong ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons flat, radicle superior. 

 DISTKIB. Species 30, in the north temperate regions of both hemispheres. 



SECT. I. Ornus. Petals 2-4. Flowers panicled, mostly hermaphrodite. 



1. P. floribunda, Watt. Cat. 2836, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey $ 

 Watt. i. 150, and PI. As. Rar. iii. 47, t. 277 ; leaflets elliptic-lanceolate serrate 

 membranous, secondary nerves reticulated, samaras 1-1 in. very narrow obtuse 

 or emarginate. Don Prodr. 106 ; DC. Prodr. viii. 275 ; Brand. For. Fl. 302, 

 t. 37. F. urophylla, Wall. Cat. 2835 ; DC. 1. c. Ornus floribunda, Dietr. Sp. 

 PL i. 249 ; Loud. Arb. 653, t. 1270. 0. urophyUa, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 57. 



TEMPERATE and SUBALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 5-11,000 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan ; 

 Wallich, Griffith, &c. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft. ; De Silva, H.f. $ T. 



A large tree. Leaflets 3-4 pairs, 4 by 1 in., acutely acuminate, serratures close 

 shallow (in the Khasian F. urophylla more distant and coarse), glabrous, when young 

 pilose on the nerves beneath ; petiolules |- in. Pedicels in., in tufts on the branches 

 of the panicle. Calyx Tjpaj in. ; teeth acutely triangular in the typical Kumaon 

 plant, hardly any in the East Himalayan. Corolla-lobes - in., linear-oblong. Fila- 

 ments j% in. Style short ; stigma long, deciduous. Samara i in. wide upwards, nar- 

 rowed to the width of the seed at base. F. retusa, Champ, (according to Benth. Fl. 

 Hongk. 214), differs in the retuse samara and the subtruncate calyx ; but, if these 

 characteristics are specific, the East Himalayan and Khasian examples must be referred 

 to F. retusa. The Hongkong retusa differs however in the smaller samara, which 

 when fully ripe is less than 1 in. The flowers appear to grow larger westward ; in 

 Wallich' s type example of F. floribunda the petals are fully in. 



2. F. Griffith!!, Clarke ; leaflets elliptic obtusely acuminate entire coria- 

 ceous, secondary nerves obscure, samaras 1 in. very narrow obtuse or emar- 

 ginate. 



MISHMEE ; " summit of a high mountain," Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3677). 



Griffith's example is in ripe fruit, and is perhaps a var. of F. floribunda, but 

 differs more from it and from F. retusa than these do from each other. The leaflets 

 are very thick, acuminate, rostrate, rounded and sometimes widened at the tip. 



