Osmanthus.'] xcii. OLEACE.E. (C. B. Clarke.) 607 



Carey Wall. i. 104 ; Wall Cat. 2810 ; Sot. Mag. t. 1662 ; Blume Mus. Sot. 

 i. 316 ; Brand. For. Fl. 309. O. acuminata, Wall. Cat. 2809 ; DC. I. c. 285. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 4-7000 ft., from Gurwhal to Sikkim; Wallich, H. f. 

 $ T., &c. KHASIA MTS. ; Griffith, Lobb. (According to Brandis only planted in 

 Grurwhal and Kumaon). DISTEIB. China, Japan, cultivated. 



A small tree or a shrub. Leaves 7 by 2 in., entire in the wild plants, often 



serrated in the cultivated, coriaceous ; petiole f in. Pedicels J-f in., densely fascicled, 



often in the upper axils, rarely terminal. Calyx less than ^ in., 4-toothed. Corolla 



^ divided nearly to the base ; lobes oblong. Drupes f by \ in., ellipsoid. The fruit is 



' only known from the Kumaon tree (a cultivated plant, ex Brandis). The cultivated 



0. fragrans is not known to produce fruit elsewhere. 



2. O. suavis, King in Herb. Calc. ; leaves lanceolate acute, calyx - in. 

 deeply 4-lobed, corolla-tube |~ in. Olea sp., Griff. Itin. Notes, 156, n. 785. 



SUBALPINE HIMALAYA; Sikkim and East Nipal, alt. 9-10,000 ft., Tonglo and 

 Kalapookree, J. D. H., King ; Bhotan Griffith. 



A bush, 12 ft., or a small tree (King}. Leaves 3 by 1 in., acute, base cuneate, 

 minutely crenate-serrate, coriaceous ; petiole in. Pedicels 0-^ in., in dense axillary 

 and terminal fascicles. Flowers polygamous. Calyx-lobes oblong, obtuse, micro- 

 scopically pubescent. Corolla-tube 5- in. and upwards (both in the male and herma- 

 phrodite flowers) in King's specimens ; in Griffith's varying from ~ to | in. (in flowers 

 male or nearly male) ; corolla-lobes in., strongly imbricated in the bud. Anthers 

 subsessile near the top of the tube, elliptic, acute. Style in., tip bifid. Drupe 



yby |--^ in., ellipsoid ; endocarp thin, crustaceous. Albumen copious, fleshy. 

 ffith made a long MS. note on this species : it does not agree well with Osmanthus 

 to which King refers it, but there appears no other place for it unless a new genus. 



7. XiXNOCXERA, Swartz. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers in axillary (rarely ter- 

 minal) panicles or cymes, often in small terminal fascicles ; bracts at the divi- 

 sions small. Calyx small, 4-fid. Petals 4, long or short, nearly free, or cohe- 

 ring by pairs, or very shortly connate, induplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens 2 ; 

 filaments short; anthers elliptic, dehiscing on the margin. Ovary 2-celled; 

 style short, stigma obscurely bifid or entire ; ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous 

 from its apex. Drupe ellipsoid (rarely globose) ; endocarp bony or crustaceous. 

 Seed usually solitary, pendulous, testa thin, albumen fleshy plentiful or ; 

 radicle superior. DISTEIB. Species 40, in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



Olea only differs by having the corolla more distinctly tubular. Many authors 

 place the albuminous species in Olea, and the exalbuminous in Linociera ; but the 

 albumen is unknown in so many species that this arrangement is inconvenient, while 

 it throws into different genera the very long-petaled species closely allied in every 

 point except the albumen. 



SECT. I. Eulinociera. Seeds albuminous (Petals elongate). 



1. Xi. malabarica, Wall. Cat. 2828; leaves broadly oblong hardly acu- 

 minate, flowers in small clusters, calyx-lobes grey-pilose, petal \ in. linear-lan- 

 ceolate connected in pairs, ovary pilose. DC. Prodr. viii. 297 ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 1246; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL159. Ohionanthus malabarica, Bedd. For. 

 Man. 154, and Fl. Sylv. t. 239,^. in corner. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan, Dalzell, to Courtallum, Wight ; frequent. 



A small tree. Leaves 4 by If in., subobtuse or very suddenly narrowed to an 



obtuse apex, base cuneate, glabrous, coriaceous, nerves obscure; petiole in. 



'Peduncles short, axillary, fascicled, numerous, grey -pilose, sparingly panicled"; 



bracts ^ in., ovate, grey-pilose. Calyx-lobes ^ in.., ovate, grey-pilose on the back. 



