OLEA.] OLEACEJE. 2T 



or none. Stamens 2, adnate to the corolla-tube or (in the male 

 flowers) sub-hypogynons ; filaments short, anthers oblong. Ovary 

 2-celled ; style short, stigma capitate or bifid ; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 subpendulous or attached laterally to the septum. Drupe ellip- 

 soid or snbglobose, endocarp bony or crustaceous, usually 1-seeded. 

 Seed pendulous, albumen fleshy, radicle superior. Species about 35, 

 from the Mediterranean region to S. Africa and from India to 

 Australia and Polynesia. 



O. glandulifera, Wall. Cat. 2S11 ; Brandis For. Fl. 309 ^ 



syn.) ; F. B. I. Hi, 612 ; Kanjildl For. Fl. Sch. Circ. 230 ; Gamble Man. 

 Ind. Timl. 474 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 309. Vern. Gair. 



A small or moderate-sized tree, branches lenticellate. Leaves 3-5 in. long 

 by l-2 in. wide, ovate-lanceolate, with a slender or sometimes abruptly 

 acuminate apex, entire, glabrous, base cuneate, margins^ undulate ; 

 main lateral nerves slender, with glands in the axils on either side of 

 midrib, petiole -1 in. long. Flowers small sessile or shortly stalked, 

 creamy white, in terminal or occasionally lateral 3-chotooious cymes. 

 Calyx 4-toothed. Corolla deeply divided; lobes ,V& i n - lon g> elliptic, 

 valvate. Anthers large. Ovary glabrous or nearly so. Drupe -$ in. 

 long, obliquely ovoid, acute, black when ripe, endocarp bony. 



Dehra Dun at Sahdnsradhara (Boyle), and in the Mothronwala swamp 

 (Kanjilal). Flowers April and May. DISTBTB. Outer Himalaya from 

 Kashmir to Nepal up to 6,000 feet, also on the Nilgiri Hills and in 

 Ceylon. The reddish" grey wood is hard and durable and is used in 

 turnery and for agricultural implements. The bark is medicinal, and 

 the leaves are used as fodder. 



0. CUSPIDATA, Wall. Cat. 2817 ; Brandis For. Fl. 507, f, 3*; F. B. I. Hi, 

 611; Watt, K. D. ; Kanjiltil For. Fl. 229; Collett Fl. Siml. 309; 

 Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 119. 0. ferruginea, Royle HI. 257 t. 65, f. 1. ; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 576 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 474. Vern. Kau, kahi (Indian 

 Olive). Cult, in Dehra Dun, but quite wild on the W. Himalaya as far 

 west as KuroaoTi ascending to 6,000 feet, a'so in Sindh, on the Punjab 

 Salt Eange and on the hills of the N.-W. Frontier Province. Allied to 

 the common olive (O. europaea). It flowers in April and May and the 

 fruit ripens August-November. The oil extracted from the fruit of this 

 tree is of good quality, but the quantity at present obtainable is unremu- 

 nerative. Sir D. Brandis suggests that by grafting or by other means 

 the yield may eventually be improved. Mr. Gamble remarks that the 

 wood, which is often prettily marbled, might be w orth trying ^ as a 

 substitute for box, or for the wood of the European Olive for inlay- 

 ing work. 



OLEA EUROPE A. Linn, is the Olive-tree of S. Europe. The attempts 

 hitherto made to cultivate this tree in India for its oil have not 

 been successful. Although it often grcws to a considerable size in Nl 

 India it rarely flowers and never produces any fruit. 



