OLEACEAE. — OSMANTHUS 609 



Ligiistrum pedunculare Rchder, n. sp. 



Frutex ad 7-nietralis, ramis gracilibus patentibus; ramuli tenues terotcs, homo- 

 tini dense breviter villoso-pilosuli, annotini tarde glabrcscentes, flavido-cinorei. 

 Folia persistentia, subcoriacea, finna, oblongo-lanceolata, v. clliptico-lancoolata, 

 rarius fere lanceolata, acuminata v. longe acuminata, basin versus sensim in peti- 

 olum attenuata 4-8 cm. longe et 1-2.5 rarius ad 3 cm. lata, glaberrima, supra 

 luteo-viridia costa media manifeste et anguste impressa sicut incisa, subtus paullo 

 pallidiora costa elevata, nervis utrinsecus 4-7 supra obsoletis subtus leviter elevatis 

 anastomosantibus; petioli 2-6 mm. longi, canaliculati, glabri. Infloroscentia 

 paniculata, dense villoso-pilosula, sine pedunculo gracili tereti plerumque 1-2 cm. 

 longo 2-3 cm. longa, satis laxa, axibus secundariis duobus infimis 5-10 mm. longa 

 pedunculatis, 3-7-floris, supra plerumque floribus solitariis v. fasciculatis instituta; 

 axes subteretcs, in fructu angulares; pedicelli sparse minute pilosuli v. fere glabri; 

 calyx plerumque minute denticulatus, glaber; corolla circiter 7-8 mm. longa, 

 hypocraterimorpha, tubo lobis ovatis acutiusculis margine involutis apice cucul- 

 latis 2 mm. longis plus quam duplo longiore; stamina antheris quam lobi corollae 

 fere triente brcvioribus ovato-oblongis acutiusculis 2.5-3 mm. longis et 1.5 mm. 

 latis, filamentis brevibus circiter 1 mm. longis. Fructus (immaturus) ovoideus, 

 circiter 7 mm. longus. 



Szech'uan: Mt. Omei, June 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 5016, tji^e); without 

 precise locality, A. Henry (No. 7117). 



This species seems most closely related to L. Dclavayanum Hariot, which differs 

 chiefly in the usually much smaller and broader leaves with the midrib slightly 

 impressed and more or less covered with short hairs above, in the sessile denser 

 and subcylindric inflorescence and in its lower habit. 



OSMANTHUS Lour. 



Osmanthus fragrans Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 28 (1790). — De Candolle, 

 Prodr. VIII. 291 (1844). — Debeaux in Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, 

 XXX. 94 {Fl. Shanghai, 42) (1875). — Clarke in Hooker f., Fl. Bnt. 

 hid. III. COG (1882). — Hance in Jour. Bot. XX. 37 (1882); XXI. 323 

 (1883). — Hemsley in Joiir. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 88 (1889). — Diels in 

 Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 532 (1900). — Brandis, Ind. Trees, 445 (1906). — 

 Pavolini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XV. 427 (1908). — Schneider, 

 III. Handb. Laubholzk. 11. 789, fig. 496 c-f (1911).— Diels in Not. 

 Bot. Gard. Edinburgh, VII. 43, 193, 265 (1912). 



Olea fragrans Thunberg, Fl. Jap. IS, t. 2 (1784). —Sims in Bot. Mag. XXXVIII. 

 t. 1552 (infloresccntia anormalis) (1813). — Loddiges, Bot. Cub. XVIII. t. 

 1786 (1S31). — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PL Jap. I. 312 (1872). — Bran- 

 dis, For. Fl. Bnt. Ind. 309 (1874). — Ldveill(5, Fl. Kouy-Tchdou, 295 

 (1914). 



Olea acuminata Wallich, Cat. No. 2809 (nomen nudum) (1S28). — De Candolle, 

 Prodr. VIII. 285 (1814). 



Western Szech'uan: Hungya Hsien, cultivated in temple 

 grounds, etc., alt. 900 m., September 10, 1908 (No. 2374; tree 7-10 m. 

 tall, flowers white); Mt. Omei, September 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 



