Symplocos.] L. STYKACE^E. 301 



J in. long, purple when ripe, enclosing a hard 1-3-celled nut, with 1 or 2 

 seeds. 



Burdwan, Midnapur, Kasia hills, Sikkim, Nepal, Western Ghats. Attains 

 20 ft. Bark rough, spongy, grey. Fl. Oct. -Dec. ; fr. May. Bark used in dyeing. 



There is a tree in the Babar of Kamaon and in the hill forests of Gonda and 

 Baraich (R. Thompson), which has been referred to S. Hamiltoniana, Wall. 

 It is closely allied to S. racemosa, but differs by longer flower-spikes, and the 

 fruit distinctly ribbed and crowned by broad membranous calyx - lobes. S. 

 nervosa, A. DC. ; Wight Ic. t. 1235 ; a large tree on the Nilgiris, is near to S. 

 racemosa. 



Order LI. OLEINEJE. 



Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite, rarely alternate, entire or pinnate. No 

 stipules. Mowers regular, generally in axillary or terminal cymose 

 panicles. Calyx free, usually small, the limb of 4, 5, or more teeth or 

 lobes, sometimes truncate. Corolla gamopetalous, with 4, 5, or more lobes, 

 sometimes divided to the base, or wanting. Stamens 2, adnate to the 

 corolla, alternating with the carpels ; anthers 2-celled, opening in longi- 

 tudinal slits ; filaments usually short. Ovary superior, 2-celled, with 2, 

 rarely 1, 3, or 4 ovules in each cell. Fruit succulent or dry, seeds with 

 or without albumen, embryo straight. Eoyle 111. 266, 267 (Jasminece), 

 Wight 111. ii. 151, 157. 



Fruit 'an indehiscent, winged samara ; leaves imparipinnate . 1. Fraxintts. 

 Fruit a capsule, dehiscing loculicidally, the valves septiferous. 



Leaves imparipinnate ; capsule woody ; no albumen . . 2. Schrebera. ; 

 Leaves simple or pinnatifid ; capsule coriaceous ; albumen 



fleshy 3. Syringa. 



Fruit a drupe, with a bony or coriaceous putamen ; albumen 



fleshy ; corolla rotate ; leaves simple, coriaceous . . 4. Olea. 

 Fruit a berry ; albumen fleshy or cartilaginous ; corolla - tube 



short; leaves simple 5. Ligustrum. j 



Fruit a 2-lobed berry, 1 lobe sometimes wanting ; seeds with- 

 out albumen ; leaves unifoliolate or imparipinnate ; corolla- 

 tube cylindrical ........ 6. Jasminum. 



Fruit flat, capsular, separating when ripe into 2 flat 1 -seeded 



cells ; leaves simple ....... 7. Nyctanthes. 



The two principal sub-Orders of this Family, often regarded as distinct Orders, 

 are Jasminece, with imbricate corolla-lobes, and exalbuminous seeds (Jasminum 

 Nyctanthes) ; and Oleinece, with corolla valvate, or wanting, and albuminous 

 seeds (Fraxinus, Syringa, Olea, Ligustrum). Olea fragrans, however, and 

 other species of that genus, have an imbricate corolla. Schrebera is somewhat 

 anomalous, often associated with Bignoniacece, but in some respects closely 

 allied to Syringa. 



1. FRAXINUS, Tournef. 



Trees or shrubs, with opposite, imparipinnate leaves. Flowers in ra- 

 cemes or panicles, polygamous or dioicous. Calyx 4-dentate, 4-cleft, or 

 wanting. Petals 4 (Section Ornus), generally cohering at the base in pairs, 

 or wanting (Section Fraxinaster). Stigma bifid. Fruit (samara) indehis- 



