Ligustrum.'] xcn. OLEACKJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 615 



refers the Nilgherry portion of Ligustrum, n. 5, H.f. $ T., to his L. coitfusum, which 

 is certainly erroneous ; it is either L. Walkeri or closely allied thereto. 



VAR. tubiflora ; corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx. Olea Roxburghii, Wall. 

 Cat. 2816 B only. Deccan Peninsula; Belgaum, Dr. Ritchie; Herb. Heyne, Wallich. 

 Corolla-tube much slenderer than in L. neilgherrense, Wight ; anthers exsert. These 

 are very doubtful plants ; Ritchie's has a bracteate panicle, and subovate leaves, but 

 the drupe is as of L. Walkeri. 



3. Xi. Roxburgh!!, Clark* ; branches lenticellate, leaves ovate-lanceolate 

 acuminate coriaceous, panicle stout pubescent, flowers clustered, corolla-tube 

 broad as long as the calyx, drupe by in. L. Candolleanum, Blume Mus. 

 Sot. i. 315, not of Dene. L. robustum, Bedd. For. Man. 154, not of Blume. 

 L. compactum, Dene, in Xouv. Arch. Mus. 2, ii. 23, not of H. f. $ T. Olea 

 Roxburghii, Wall. Cat. 2816, not of Sprang, nor of Wight. Visiania robusta, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1242. Phillyrea terminalis, Herb. Roxo. 



MTS. of the DECCAN PENINSULA, alt. 4-7000 ft., very common. 



A small tree. Leaves 3 by in., base obtuse; nerves 8 pairs, slender but well- 

 defined and somewhat regular ; petiole \ in. Panicles often 8 by 6 in., brachiate ; 

 bracts lanceolate, foliaceous or ; pedicels hardly any, clusters of flowers often some- 

 what whorled. Corolla \ in., much larger than in L. robustum ; tube sometimes con- 

 siderably exceeding the calyx. Blume founds his species on Wall. Cat. 2816 E, which 

 he (by error) supposes to have come from Nipal. Decaisne has not included Wight's 

 icon, t. 1242, in his monograph; but he has named the specimens belonging to that 

 picture. L. compactum, perhaps because of the distinct regular nervation of the leaves, 

 which is similar. This species has been known as " the stout Nilgherry form of L. 

 robustum" but it differs as much from L. robustum of Silhet as does any Indian 

 Ligustrum. The confusion which has enveloped this species arises from its having 

 been named by Wight Phillyrea paniculata, Roxb., which is = Ligustrum lucidum, 

 Aiton = Olea davata, Don = 0. Roxburghii, Spreng. (Wight Ic. t. 735), a Chinese 

 plant, cultivated both at Calcutta and in Europe, closely allied to L. Roxburghii, but 

 having the panicle glabrous. 



4. Xi. neilg-herrense, Wight Ic. 1. 1243, not of Dene. ; leaves ovate acute 

 coriaceous, panicle dense, branches glabrous lenticellate, corolla-tube twice as 

 long as the calyx, drupe \ by % in. L. Candolleanum, Dene, in Nouv. Arch. 

 Mus. 2, ii. 28, not of Blume. Olea Roxburghii, Wall. Cat. 2816, E only. 



Mrs. of the DECCAN PENINSULA, frequent; Dindyghul, Nilgherries, Bababoodun 

 Hills, &e. 



United (very probably correctly) with L. Roxburghii by Beddome ; it differs in 

 the larger flowers (corolla-tube in.) and in the glabrous panicle, the branches of 

 which are quadrangular lenticellate in fruit, instead of round and hairy as in L. Rox- 

 burghii. The leaves also are not acuminate, often subobtuse, sometimes orbicular 

 (1\ by 2 in.). Decaisne has marked a typical example of this from Herb. Wight 

 (flower and fruit) L. compactum ; the Kumaon L. compactum has a shorter corolla- 

 tube with reflexed lobes more closely-nerved acuter leaves, and a very different-looking 

 less rigid fruit-panicle with compressed flexuose branches. 



VAR. obovata, Dene, in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 2, ii. 22; leaves subobtuse, corolla 

 rather shorter. Mts. of the Deccan Peninsula. Cannot be satisfactorily distinguished 

 from L. neilgherrense. 



5. Zi. Perrottetii, A. DC. in DC. Prodr. viii. 294; branches rarely 

 lenticellate, leaves smallish elliptic acute at both ends, panicles thyrsoid mi- 

 nutely pubescent, corolla-tube nearly twice the calyx, drupe by in. Wight 

 Ic. t. 1244 ; Bedd. For. Man. 153, and Anal. Gen. t. 19, fig. 5 ; Dene, in Nouv. 

 Arch. Mus. 2, ii. 32. 



MTS. of the DECCAN PENINSULA, frequent ; Nilgherries, Pulneys, Wight, Gardner, 



