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LXXI. OLEACE.E 



[Olea 



A middle-sized tree, heartwood olive-brown to nearly black, often beautifully 

 mottled, extremely hard. L. lanceolate, cuspidate, entire, the upper side deep 

 glossy green, the under side, as well as branchlets and petioles clothed with a 

 dense ferrugineous or red, sometimes grey film of minute orbicular more or less 

 lobed scales, midrib prominent, sec. n. obscure, blade 2-4, pet. ^-.V in. long. 

 Fl. whitish, bisexual, in axillary panicles, about half the length of 1. Corolla 

 rotate, lobes ovate, acute. Drupe ovoid, \-\ in. long, black when ripe, 

 supported by the remains of calyx, pulp scanty, oily, stone thick, hard, 

 bony. 



Baluchistan. Afghanistan. Suliman range, Trans Indus. North West Himalaya, 

 ascending to 6,000 ft. ; also in the dry inner valleys. Fl. April-June. Combs made 

 of the wood. Closely allied to Olea europcea, Linn., the European Olive, which (the 

 ungrafted tree) has spinescent branchlets, leaves grey above, white beneath, a more 

 dense inflorescence and larger fruit. 



2. O. glandulifera, Wall.; Wight Ic. t. 1238; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 238. 

 Vern. Gair, Gaild, Jaunsar, Garhwal. 



A small or middle-sized wholly glabrous tree, trunk short, with a broad 



Fig. 170. Olea gland ulifera, Wall. i. 



umbrageous crown, wood reddish, close-grained, hard. L. elliptic or ovate, 

 long acuminate, sec. n. 6-8 pair, in their axils on the underside small oval 

 cavities, blade 4-5, petiole 1-li in. long. Fl. white, bisexual, in terminal 

 and lateral compound pyramidal trichotomous panicles, corolla rotate. Fr. 

 ovoid, \ in. long, endocarp crustaceous. 



Outer Himalayan ranges, Kashmir to Nepal 1,900-6,000 ft., scattered in mixed woods, 

 often associated with Acer oblongum. Bababndan hills. Coorg. Nilgiris, Anamalais. 

 Fl. March-May. 3. O. dentata, Wall. Mishmee and Khasi hills. Hills of Lower and 

 Upper Burma. Branchlets and panicles more or less pubescent, 1. coriaceous, toothed 

 or entire, lanceolate, blade 5-7, pet. J in. long. Fl. dioicous, in panicles as long as or 

 longer than 1., calyx hairy, corolla $ in. long. 4. A large climber (Clarke 42047. 

 Manipur 6,500 ft., Nov. 1885). L. coriaceous, lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, blade 5-6- 



