Oka.'] xcn. OLEACEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 613 



and panicles have many minute soft spreading hairs. Wight supposed it to be Olea 

 microcarpa, Vahl (i.e. Phillyrea indica, Lour. FL Cochinch. 19), but Loureiro says his 

 plant had terminal inflorescence, so that it shxmld more probably be one of the globose- 

 fruited Ligustrums allied to (or identical with) a Khasia or Chinese species. 



5. O. dentata, Wall. Cat. 2840 ; branchlets hairy, leaves oblong-lanceo- 

 late toothed or entire coriaceous, secondary nerves obscure, panicles axillary 

 large hairy, flowers dioecious, corolla in both sexes campanulate shortly 4-fid. 

 DC. P)-odr. viii. 286; Kurz For. FL ii. 167, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 



BRITISH BIRMA ; Griffith and Heifer (Kew Distrib. n. 3690), Parish, &c. ; Martaban 

 and Tenasserim, alt. 2-3000 ft., frequent (Kurz]. 



A tree, 40-60 ft. (Kurz}, Leaves 5 by 1 \ in., base cuneate or subobtuse, glabrous 

 or sometimes hairy beneath ; nerves slender, often subimpressed beneath ; petiole % 

 in. Panicles (both male and female) 3-6 in., brachiate ; bracts small, linear or - in., 

 very narrow, hairy; pedicels 0-^ in., with flowers in threes. Calyx minute ; lobes 

 ovate, pubescent. Corolla %~ in., almost tubular-campanulate, subequally 4-lobed. 

 Ovary glabrous ; style ; stigma subtruncate. Drupe not seen. This plant has been 

 mixed with O.maritima, from which it hardly differs but by the campanulate shortly- 

 divided corolla, and with Linociera ternifolia, in which the corolla is nearly divided 

 into 2 bifid petals and the panicle much smaller. 



VAE. salicifolia, Wall. Cat. 2821 (sp.) ; panicles much less hairy, pedicels -5 in. 

 subumbelled, corolla ^ in., drupes by in. narrow ellipsoid, endocarp bony, seed 

 albuminous. DC. Prodr. viii. 286. Khasia; Wallich, Griffith; at the Bor-pani, //. 

 /. cf- T. This is placed with 0. dentata by'Kurz, the leaves are remarkably similar, 

 and one of Griffith's Mergui examples in flower seems nearer the Khasia O.salicifolia 

 than the Birma 0. dentata ; but the seeds of 0. dentata remain unknown, and may 

 prove to be exalbuminous, when the species will stand near Linociera tcrniflora. 



6. O. Gamble i, Clarke. ; leaves oblong acuminate entire coriaceous, 

 panicles axillary obscurely pubescent, flowers dioecious both males and females 

 without corolla, drupes f by in. 



TROPICAL SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; J. D. H. ; near Punkabari, Gamble. 



Nearly glabrous. Leaves 4^ by^ in., parallel-sided, long acuminate, base cuneate; 

 nerves obscure ; petiole j in. Panicles 2^ in., brachiate ; bracts minute ; pedicels 

 |- in. Calyx less than ^ in., subtruncate. ciliate. Anthers subsessile, oblong, large. 

 Ovary glabrous ; style short, stigma short bifid. Fruit sometimes nearly 1 by in. ; 

 endocarp bony. Seed albuminous. One or two hermaphrodite flowers (without 

 corolla) are seen at the base of the female panicles. The New Zealand 0. apetala 

 has broader less acuminate leaves and shorter, far less compound, subracemose 

 panicles. 



7. O. polyg-ama, Wight Ic. it. 1239, 1240; glabrous, leaves broadly 

 elliptic suddenly shortly acuminate coriaceous, secondary nerves obscure, 

 panicles axillary, flowers male and hermaphrodite all petaline. Bedd. For. 

 Man. 164. O. Gardneri, Thwaites Enum. 188 ; Bedd. For. Man. 154. 



NILGHEBRIES; Sispara, Gardner, Wight. CEYLON; alt. 7000 ft., Walker, 

 Thwaites. 



A small tree. Leaves 2f by 1 * in., obtuse, mucronate, base cuneate ; nerves 8 pairs, 

 subimpressed beneath ; petiole i in. Panicles l-2 in.; male on one tree, female- 

 hermaphrodite on another; bracts inconspicuous; pedicels ^-^ in., subumbelled. 

 Flowers as of 0. dioica. Drupe not seen. This differs from 0. dioica slightly ; the 

 leaves dry reddish with subincurvecl margins, the nerves are not elevated beneath ; 

 the panicles are smaller ; it looks like a high-level, somewhat stunted 0. dioica. 



