-26 OLEACE&. [OiEA. 



oblon<? ciliate lobes. Capsule pendulous, 2 in. long, pear shaped, hard 

 and woody, surface rough with white raised specks. Seeds 3-4 in each 

 cell. 



Forests of Bundelkhand and Merwata. Flowers February- April, frag- 

 rant at night. DISTBIB. Subtropical Kumaon up to 1,500 feet, N. 

 Bengal, Chota Nagpur and from the Central Provinces to the drier 

 parts of S. India; also in Upper Burma. The grey close-grained 

 wood is largely used in turnery. 



4. LINOCIERA, Swartz ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 607. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers in axillary 

 (rarely terminal) panicles or cymes, often in small terminal fascicles, 

 bracts small. Calyx small, 4-fid. Petals 4, nearly free, or cohering 

 in pairs, or shortly connate, iodaplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens 2, 

 filaments short, attached at the ba^e of the petals. Ovary 2-celled, 

 style short, stigma obscurely bifid or entire ; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 pendulous. "Drupe ellipsoid; endocarp bony or crustaceous. Seed 

 usually solitary, pendulous, testa thin, albumen fleshy or 0, radicle 

 superior. Species about 40, in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



L. intermedia, VAB. Eoxburghii, Clarke in F. B. I. iii t 609 ; Watt 

 E. D. ; Oooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 117 ; Prain Beng. PI. 660. Olea panic alata, 

 :Roxb. Hort. Beng. 80 ; Fl. Ind. i (1820), 104 (riot of B. Br.). 



'Usually a small tree, the branches covered with white lenticels. Leaves 

 (including petiole) 3-5 in. long by 1-1 in. wide, elliptic or oblanceo- 

 late, acute or bluntly acuminate, papery, glabrous, nerves prominent 

 beneath; petiole i-1 in. long. Flowers white, in axillary or extra 

 axillary rather dense thyraoid panicles,, which become lax after flower- 

 ing ; bracts falcate-lanceolate, equalling or exceeding the pedicels. 

 Calyx T *Q in. long, glabrous, lobes ovate. Corolla-lobes linear-oblong, 

 cohering by pairs at the base. Ovary glabrous, stigmatic lobes 

 divaricate. Drupe about 5 in. long, ellipsoid, l-seaded, purple when 

 ripe. Seed exalbuminous. 



Kansrao on the Dehra Dun Siwalik range (Edge worth), a ad in the Sab- 

 Himalayan tracts of Kheri and Gonda in N. Oad 1 !. DISTBIB. Ghofca 

 Nagpur, Cent, and S. India. 



5. OLEA, Linn. ; FL Brit. Ind. iii, 611. 



Trees or shruba. Leaves opposite, entire or toothei. Flowers 

 -small, hermaphrodite dioecious or polygamous, in axillary or extra- 

 axillary (rarely terminal) panicles, bracts minute. Calyx small, 

 4-toothed or-lobed. Corolla-tube short lob^s 4, iuduplicate-valvate, 



