Linociera] LXXI. OLEACE.E 44!» 



short ami stiff racemes, sometimes compound, pedicels shorter than calyx. Calyx 

 glabrous, petals thick, distinct, the edges curved inwards, anthers minutely apiculate, 

 filaments broad, shorter than anthers, ovary glabrous. 



7. L. caudata. Coll. et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 84. Terai of Shan hills 

 3,000 ft. Sbwebo district, 750 ft. associated with Oaks and Chestnuts. A middle-sized 

 evergreen tree, 1. glabrous, chartaceous, elongate-elliptic, acuminate, blade 4—5, 

 narrowed into pet. J— J in. long, midrib and sec. n. impressed <m the upper side. Fl. §, 

 greenish-yellow, sessile, in pedunculate panicles, about half the length of 1.. axillary 

 or from tin- middle of internode. Calyx glabrous, edges of segments ciliate. Petals 

 i in. long, connate in pairs to one-third or one-half of their length, anthers sessile, 

 ovary compound, hirsute. 8. L. terniflora, Wall. (Olea temiflora, Kurz). Chittagong. 

 Lower Burma. A rniddle-sized evergreen tree, wholly glabrous. Fl. small, sessile, in 

 3-fld. pedunculate heads, forming short still' narrow puhescent racemes or panicles, 

 axillary or from the middle of internodes, calyx-segments ciliate, petals shortly connate 

 in pairs A— 1 in. long. 9. L. minutiflora, Clarke [Cliionantfius minutiflorus, Kurz). 

 Koonong forests, N. E. of Toungoo (D.B. March 1861). Fl. minute, in amine peduncu- 

 late panicles 3-4 in. long, petals free, i in. long, ovary glabrous. 



3. JASMIN UM, Linn. : Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 591. 



Shrubs, mostly climbing, 1. opposite or alternate, simple, trifoliolate or impari- 

 piiniate, petioles frequently articulate in the middle, the persistent lower 

 portion becoming; woody. Calyx-teeth 4—9, corolla salver-shaped, white, 

 pink or yellow, lobes 4-7, imbricate in bud, patent in fl. Style cylindric 

 (species frequently dimorphic, some fl. having a long, others a short style . 

 stigmas 2. linear, ovules 2 in each cell. Berry of two more or less distinct 

 1-seeded carpels, one carpel often abortive. Albumen 0, radicle inferior. 

 Species 140-160, tropical and subtropical regions, one species in America and 

 one in South Europe. 



A. L. opposite, simple, calyx pubescent. 



(a) Calyx-teeth (in fl.) twice the length of tube or longer. 



1. J. Sambac, Aiton; Wight Ic. t. <04. Vern. Bel, Mugra, Chamba, 

 Hind : MoAlige, Kan. ; Sabi, Burin. 



A shrub, often more or less climbing, branchlets and petioles pubescent, 1. 

 ovate nearly glabrous. Fl. white, fragrant, in terminal eyrnes, sometimes 

 solitary, calyx-teeth hairy, \ in. long, corolla-lobes as long as rube. Ripe 

 carpels 1 or 2 nearly globose. 



Hi li'Ycl t<> In. indigenous iii the Western Peninsula. Cultivated throughout India 

 and in most tropical countries on account of its delightfully fragrant S. in numerous 



varieties, erect aiel climbing, with large and small, double and single 11. Fl. H. S. 



2. J. unduiatum, Ker, sikkim 'J ">,ihhi ft. Bhutan, Assam, Khasi hills. Upper Burma, 



China. I 'limbing. I. ovate-lanceolate, calyx-teeth subulate. '. ' in. long, eumlla-l'ibes 

 shorter than tube. 



3. J. pubescens, Willd.— Syn. ./. hirsntn ,„. Willi.; Wight Ic. t. 702. 

 Brandis F. Fl. H12 ; J. bracteatum, Wight Ic. t. 1248. Vern. Kunda, 

 ( 'In/ an li. Hind. ; Sabi, Burm. 



A large shrub, more or less scandent, branchlets and as a rule leaves also 

 grey-tomentOSe, I. ovale, from a rounded or cordate base, blade 1 ■■'.'<. petiole 

 | I in. Fl. white, fragrant, sessile or on very short pedicels, crowded in softly 

 tomentose compact terminal nearly sessile corymbiform cymes, bracts small, 

 ovate, calyx-lobes very hairy, reaching nearly to the a]iex of COrolla-tnbe. 

 ( 'oroll.i It nblong-laiK late, cuspidate, shorter than tube. 



Subhimalayan tract from the Jumna eastwards, ascending to 8,000 ft. Central 

 provinces. Western Peninsula. Burma. Fl. Jan.— April, also in the rains. 1. j. 

 Rottlerianum. Wall.: Wight [o. t. 1249. Western Ghats and adjoining mountain 

 ranges, - E»,000 ft., from the Konkan southwards. A climhing shrub, branchlets, 

 pel ioles and inflorescence villous, 1. elliptic, pubescent or nearly glabrous J. glabrius- 

 riilin,!, Blume; Trimen Efandb. Ceylon iii. lb''., blade :i I, ]».t. j ■ > i 1 1 1 • ■< 1 . j in. Fl. in 

 compact terminal, of ten panioled heads, bracts conspicuous, white, up to -j in. long. 



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