618 



xcii. OLEACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 



[Myxopyrw 



Blume). Fruit 1-seeded globose, or sometimes 2-seeded obovoid; pericax 

 crustaceous. Testa thin, albumen horny ; radicle inferior. DISTRIB. Speci 

 3, East Himalaya to South Madras and Malaya. 



1. M. smilacifolium, Blume Mus. Hot. i. 320; leaves ovate or obtoi 

 acute entire or toothed, fruit in. diam. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 160, and in Journ. 

 As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 245. Ligustrum laurifolium. Roxb. Hort. Seng. 3. Chio- 

 nanthus ? smilacifolia, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. 2nd. ed. Carey 8> Wall. i. 108. 

 Chondrospermum smilacifolium, Wall. Cat. 2837; Wight III. t. 151, b. D; 

 DC. Prodr. viii. 301. Ch. coriaceum, Wall. Cat. 2838 ; DCJ.c. 



SIKKIM TERAI ; J. D. H. ASSAM, SILHBT, CACHAR, CHITTAGONG, PEGU, PENANG. 

 SOUTH DECCAN PENINSULA ; Anamallay Mts., Beddome. DISTRIB. Malaya, Admiralty 

 Islands. 



Nearly glabrous. Leaves 6-9 in., from narrow-oblong to cordate-ovate, acuminate, 

 base cuneate or rounded, entire slightly toothed or closely serrate on the same 

 branch ; petiole \ in. Panicles 4-8 in., peduncled ; branches somewhat lax in fruit. 

 Corolla in. 



2. M. nervosum, Blume Bijd. 683; Mus. Bot. i. 320. t. 51; leaves 

 oblong or elliptic acute entire or toothed, berries f in. diam. DC. Prodr. viii. 

 290. 



MALACCA ; Maingay. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java. 



Leaves 8 by 3 in., base cuneate or rounded, very coriaceous. Panicles minutely 

 pubescent in flower, very rigid, brachiate in fruit. Maingay's plant here described 

 differs from M. smilacifolium, only in its very stout habit and large berries. "Whether 

 it is Blume's M. nervosum is uncertain, as that has no ripe fruit. 



ORDER XCIII. SALVADORACEJE. (By 0. B. Clarke.) 



Trees or shrubs, nearly glabrous, olive-grey, unarmed or spinous. Leaves 

 opposite, entire. Floivers clustered or panicled, small, dioecious or polygamo- 

 dirnorphic. Calyx free, campanulate or ovoid, 3-5-fid. Corolla shortly cam- 

 panulate or petals free, 4-merous, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, on the 

 corolla-tube or hypogynous, alternate with the corolla-segments ; filaments 

 free or connate into a tube. Ovary free, 1-2-, or imperfectly 4-celled ; style 

 short, stigma 2-fid or subentire ; ovules 1-2 in each cell, erect from its base, 

 anatropous. Berry or drupe mostly 1-seeded. Seed erect, globose, exalbumi- 

 nous. DISTRIB. Species 8-9, in tropical and subtropical Asia, Africa, Madagas- 

 car and Malaya. 



Distinguished from the Indian species of Oleacece by their 4 stamens. 



Petals free. Stamens monadelphous. Ovary 1 -celled, 1-ovuled . 1. DOBERA. 

 Corolla gamopetalous. Stamens on corolla-tube. Ovary 1-celled, 



1-ovuled 2 SALVADORA. 



Petals free. Stamens free. Ovary 2- (or falsely 4-) celled ... 3. AZIMA. 



1. DOBERA, Justs. 



A glabrous tree. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers small, polygamo-dioscious, 

 clustered on the branches of an axillary inflorescence, trichotomous in the males, 

 subsimple in the females. Calyx ovoid, irregularly valvate, 3-5-toothed. Petals 

 4 (or 5), narrowly-oblong, free, imbricate. Stamens 4 (or 5), filaments connate 

 into a tube ; anthers lanceolate, dehiscing laterally or subextrorsely. Scales 4r-5 

 outside the staminal tube, alternate with the stamens. Ovary 1-celled (Bth. fy 



