546 POTALIACE^ OLEACK^. 



ORDER CCXVII— POTALIACE^, R. Br. Lindl. Nat. Syst. 



p. 306. 



Trees or shrubs, natives of Tropical Africa and S. America, amounting- 

 only to 4 species. 



* Potalia amara, Aubl. 5 Guiana. — P. resinifera. Mart. B Brazil. — 

 Anthocleista nobilis, G. Don. 5 Sierra Leona. — A. macropkylla, 

 G. Don. 5 Sierra Leona. 



ORDER CCXVIII.— OLEACE^, Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 307. 



THE OLIVE TRIBE. 



Trees or shrubs, by Lindl. referred to 14 genera. Of these, Spreng. 

 syst. assigns 28 species to N. America ; 13 to Europe ; 7 to New Holland 

 and Van Diemen's Land ; 7 to China and Japan ; 4 to S. America, and the 

 W. Indies; 3 to Syria, and Asia Minor; 3 to S. Africa; 3 to the Mas- 

 carenhas Islands ; 1 to the Canaries ; 1 to Tauria ; and 1 to Persia. In 

 the E. Indies have been discovered 42 species, viz. 20 of Olea ; 10 of Li- 

 nociera ; 3 of Ligustrum ; 1 of Syi'inga ; 1 of Pachy derma; 1 of 

 Myxopyrum ; 1-2 of Chondrospermum ; and 4 of Ornus. About 18 of 

 these have been discovered in Nepal, the Himalayas and the Khassya 

 Mountains ; the rest are natives of the two Peninsulas of India, Ceylon, 

 Java, and the Moluccas. 



" This order (and Aurantiacese) offer one of the few instances of oil 

 being contained in the pericarp, from which olive oil is entirely expressed. 

 In most other plants oil is yielded by the seed." {Lindl.) 

 Olea, Tournef. (G. Don's Mill. diet. A, p. 46.) Olive. 



1. saliva, Hoffmansegg. (G. Don. I. c. ; — J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 109. — 

 Olea europsea; L. Q. sp. 1, p. 11; — Vahl. enum. 1, p. 39; — Brot. 

 fl. lusit. 1, p. \0,—All. pedem. 1, p. 121, No. 449; — Wood. med. hot. 

 p. 3G9, t. 136; — Plenck. icon. t. 11 ; — Roxb. H. B. p. 3. — O. europsea, 

 longifolia, — Lodd. B. Cab. t. 456. — O. longifoha, Monch. — O. poly- 

 morpha, Risso.) Cultivated Olive. 5 Aleppo. Lebanon. Was in- 

 troduced into H. C. G. in 1800, but had not fl. up to 1814.— J. 

 Grah. 1. c. says : " The climate of India seems to suit it, and it may 

 possibly hereafter become of some importance." 



2. lancea. Lam. (///. 1, p. 29, n. 78. Ejvsd. Cyclopcedia. p. 4, 544.) b 

 Mauritius. Bourbon. 



3. capensis, L. (G. Don. o. c. p. 48 ; — B. Reg. 8, t. 613. — O. buxifolia. 

 Mill, diet.) 5 Has not fl. here, though cultivated for several years. 



