Linociera.] xcn. OLEACEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 611 



SILHET ; WaUich. ASSAM ; Griffith, Jenkins. KHASIA ; Griffith. 



A small tree ; glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 8 by 2 in. (sometimes 9 by 4 in.), 

 acute at both ends, chartaceous, often punctate on the upper surface ; nerves 10-13 pairs, 

 secondary distinct ; petiole 1-1 J in. Panicles l-l in. in the type specimens, 1-4 in. 

 in cultivated ones; bracts minute. Calyx glabrous. Petals obtuse, margins little 

 incurved. Ovary glabrous ; style short. Fruit elongate ellipsoid, on greatly thickened 

 pedicels ; endocarp crustaceous ; testa thin ; albumen 0. 



VAR. attenuata ; panicle more lax, in fruit slenderer with pedicels less thickened. 

 L. tenuiflora, Wall. Cat. 2827 ; DC. Prodr. viii. 298. Olea attenuata, Wall. ON!. 2839 ; 

 DC. L c. 286. Chionanthus ramiflora, Eoxb. Hort. Seng. 3, and Ft. Ind. Carey $ 

 Wall. i. 106 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. 301. Phillyrea ramiflora, Eoxb. Ic. Ined.PegM 

 and Tenasserim ; WaUich, Griffith. Andamans; Kurz. DISTRIB. Ava, Malaya, 

 Tropical Australia. This has been placed as a variety of L. intermedia, Wight, and 

 it does not greatly differ but by the smaller flowers and the much slenderer panicle. 

 L. ramiflora, Wall. Cat. 2824 (DC. L. c. 297), cultivated specimen, is remarkable for 

 the intricately divaricately ramous panicle, the pedicels being nearly all | to ^ in. The 

 whole series only differs in the development of the panicle, and (slightly) in the size 

 of the flowers ; and perhaps L. intermedia, macrophylla and ramiflora (with their 

 varieties) form but one species, extending over Southern and Eastern India, Malaya 

 and Australia. 



SPECIES NOT SEEN". 



L. COTINIFOLIA, Vahl ; DC. Prodr. viii. 297 ; is founded on Pluk. Aim. t. 241, fig. 

 4, which represents a Ceylon shrub with leaves very villous beneath and 5-merous 

 flowers, and is therefore not of the genus. 



L. ? LORANTHIFOLIA, Wall. Cat. 2842, from Amherst, has only twigs and a few 

 leaves which resemble those of Salvadora persica. 



L. MUELLERI, Van HeurcJc PI. Nov. 124, collected by Griffith near Malacca, is 

 perhaps Bouea microphylla, Griff. ; J. D. Hook. FL Brit. Ind. ii. 21. (It has 4 

 stamens). 



CHIONANTHTTS ? GHJERI, Gaertn. ; DC. Prodr. viii. 295 ; from Ceylon, of which 

 the leaves and flowers are unknown, remains obscure. 



NUTEL^EA POSUA, Don Prodr. 107 ; leaves opposite elliptic-oblong acuminate, 

 peduncles axillary drooping clustered 1 -flowered, calyx-teeth equal, stigma capitate. 



NIPAX ; Narainhetty, Hamilton (fide Don). Probably a Linodera. 



Leaves 4-5 by 1 -2 in. Petals 4, ovate united at the base in pairs by the filaments. 

 Drupe with subchartaceous endocarp. Copied from Don. 



8. OLEA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. Flowers small, her- 

 maphrodite dioecious or polygamous, in axillary or terminal panicles ; bracts 

 minute. Calyx small, 4-toothed or -lobed. Corolla-tube short ; lobes 4, indupli- 

 cate-valvate, or 0. Stamens 2, on the corolla-tube or subhypogynous, filaments 

 short j anthers oblong. Ovary 2-celled ; style short, stigma ovate or shortly 

 2-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell, suhpendulous or attached laterally to the septum. 

 Drupe ellipsoid or subglobose, endocarp bony or crustaceous, usually 1-seeded. 

 Seed pendulous, albumen fleshy ; radicle superior. DISTRIB. Species 35 in the 

 Old World, from the North Temperate Zone to South Africa and New Zealand. 



1. O. cuspidata, Wall. Cat. 2817 ; leaves oblong, nerves beneath en- 

 tirely obscured by felted ferruginous scales, panicles short axillary, flowers 

 bisexual corolloid, ovary glabrous, drupe in. ellipsoid. DC. Pi-odr. viii. 285; 

 Brand. For. FL 307, t. 38 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 36. 0. ferruginea, Eoyle 111. 

 257, t. 65, fig. 1. 



NORTH-WEST HIMALAYA and KASHMIR, alt. 2-6000 ft., frequent. DISTRIB. Cabul, 

 Beloochistan. 



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