20 OLE ACE ^. OYMPLOCOS.. 



A large shrub or medium- sized tree. Young branches more or less pilose. 

 Leaves membranous, 2-4 in. long, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, acute or 

 acuminate, rounded or cuneate at the base, usually deeply serrate to- 

 wards the apex, under surface usually pilose especially on the midrib, 

 but sometimes quite glabrous, nerves prominent beneath, petiole I in. 

 long. Flowers pedicelled, white turning to yellow, fragrant, arranged 

 in cymose corymbs on eloruate terminal and axillary panicles, those of 

 the lateral branches often few and with longer pedicels ; bracts small, 

 linear, caducous. Calyx-tube obconic, glabrous or more or less pilose ; 

 lobes rounded or lanceolate and acute, ciliate. Corolla three times 

 longer than the calyx, 5-part. Stamens 2()- 60, equalling the corclla in 

 length ; filaments connate in 5 bundles. Ovary usually 2-eelled, glabrous 

 or hairy. Fruit % in., globose or ovoid, crowned with the remains of 

 the calyx-limb, black when ripe. 



Dehra Dun, in swamps (Kanjilal). DISTRIB. Abundant on the Himalaya 

 up to 9,000 ft. from the Indus to ^ssam and on the Khasia Mils, also in. 

 Upper and Lower Burma. The hawthorn-like flowers appear during 

 May and June. The flowers and leaves are much used in native dyeing, 

 the bark is medicinal, and the leaves afford fodder for sheep and goats. 



2. S. racemosa, Eoxb. Hurt. Beng. 40 ; Fl. Ind. ii t 539 ; Royle III. 260 ; 

 Brandis For. Fl. 300 ; F. B. I. Hi, 576 ; Watt. E. D. ; A Brand. (Symploc.) 

 in Engl.Pflanzenreich 59 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Tirnb., 465 ; Prain Beng. 

 PI. 655. S. Hamiltoniana, Wall. ; Brandis For. Fl. 301.- Vern. Lodh. 



A small tree, cr often only a shrub. Branchlets glabrous or sparingly 

 pilose. Leaves S-7 in. long, elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, rounded 

 or obtusely acuminate at the apex, rounded or cuneate at the base 

 serrulate or obscurely crenate, coriaceous, glabrous above, sparsely 

 pilose on the midrib beneath, nerves indistinct, petiole -i in. long. 

 Flowers sessile or nearly so, yellow, fragrant, on short axillary com- 

 pound spikes ; bracts unequal, ovate, hairy, deciduous. Calyse~tube, 

 glabrous ; lobes rounded, equalling the tube, slightly pubescent and 

 with oiliate edges. Corolla 3 times longer than calyx. Stamens often 

 exceeding one hundred. Ovary 3-celled, hairy. Fir wit oblong or cylin- 

 dric, 1 -3-celled. 



Patli dun and Kumaon bhabar ; also in the forests of Bahraich and Gonda. 

 in N. Oudh (E. Thompson and Duthie's collectors). DISTRIB. East- 

 wards to Assam and Ghota Nagpur ; also in Upper Burma, the Anda- 

 man Islands and in China. The bark and leaves are used in dyeing, and 

 the bark is medicinal. 



LXIX.-OLEACEJE. 



Trees, or scandent or erect shrubs, unarmed. Leaves opposit e 

 rarely alternate, simple 3-foliolate or pinnate, entire or toothed ; 

 stipules 0. Flowers regular, often dimorphous, hermaprodite or 



