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418. OLEA. 1 L. Diandria Monogynia. 
From Hlaia, the Greek name of the olive,—sacred to Winerva.—The em- 
blem of peace, (Genesis 8. 11. and Gibbon’s Rome. Chap. |.) of which in the 
westera world, it followed the progress. Lam. ¢. 8. Tourn, ¢, 370. Gaert. 2. ¢t. 
95. 
“ Peace o’er the world her olive wand extend, 
And white-rob’d Innocence from Heaven descend.” 
Pope’s Messiah- 
833. O. Sativa. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 46. 
The Box-leaved variety of the common Olive, Introduced from His 
.. Highness the Pagha of Heypt’s garden at Rhoda, by Mr. Macullough in 1837. 
The climate of India seems to suit it, and it may possibly hereafter be- 
come of some importance. 
834. O. Fracrans. Rox. Flora. 1. p. 105. Don’s. syst. 4. p.48. Osman- 
-thus fragrans. Lour. Cochin China, Thunbergh’s Japan. t. 2. Bot, Mag, ¢. 
oS ‘ S l 5 
1552. 
A small tree with elliptic, lanceolate leaves, and sweet scented, yellowish 
white flowers which are said to be put into teas to impart flavour to them. 
Native of Japan and Cliina,—Dapooree, intd. (Dr, Lush.) 
835. Ov Dioica. Rox. Flora. 1. p. 106+ Don’s. syst. 4: p. 49—0, Wigh- 
tiana. Don’s, syst, 4. p. 49. Tetrapilus brashiatus- Lour. Cochin China, 
Kara. Vetti. Rheed, Mal. 4. ¢. 54. Hamilt. in Linn, Trans. 17. p. 236. 
Indian Olive —FParr Jamb.—(not very different from the Silbet name 
Atta Jamb.) A large tree, with opposite, oblong, serrate leayes, and small 
white flowersin axillary panicles. They appear in February and March, and 
the fruit which ripens at the beginning of the rains much resembles, as 
Roxburgh observes, the common sloe, Perhaps this tree ought to be re- 
ferred to the genus PAillyrea. 
Some stately specimens grow in Lanowlee grove, near Kandalla. 
{t is very common towards the top of the Rotunda Ghaut, Mahableshwur. 
419. SYRINGA.L. Diandria Monogynia. 
Syrinz—a pipe; the lilac was anciently called “pipe tree.”—or perhaps 
a poetical name from the Nymph Syrina who was changed into a reed 
when Pan pursued her,—‘‘Worpore pro Nymphae calamos tenuisse palustres.” 
(Ovid.) Gaert. ¢. 49. Tourn, ¢. 372. Lam, ¢.7. 
836. S. Vuicaris. Don’s. syst. 4. p- 51. Bot. Mag. t. 183, 
The common Lilac, so well described by Cowper. 
‘* various in array, now white, : 
Now sanguine, and her beauteous head now set 
With purple spikes pyramidal, as if 
Studious of ornament, yet unresoly’d 
Which hue she most approv’d, she chose them all.” 
Hort. Soc. garden:—intd. from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. A. N. 
Shaw, C. S.in 1837. It had been previously intd. by N. 
837. S. Penrsica. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 51. Bot. Mag. ¢. 486. 
The Persian Lilac; intd. by N. 
420. LINOCIERA. Don. Diandria Monogynia. 
Named by Swartz after Linocier, once a Physician at Tournon.—Chio- 
nanthus, Lam. Ill. ¢. 9. Gaert. ¢. 215. : 
838. L. Maraparica. Don’s syst. 4. p, 53. Chionanthus Malabaricus. 
Heyne’s Herb. C, glandulifera, N, 
