Syringa.] xcii. OLBACEiE. (C. B. Clarke.) 605 



2. S. Emodi, Wall. Cat. 2831 ; leaves 2-5 in. elliptic or ovate glabrous 

 ■whitened beneath, panicles dense, flowers often fascicled. Royle III. 267, t. 65, 

 fig. 2 ; DC. Prodr. viii. 283; Bot. Reg. 31 (1845), t. 6; Brand. For. Fl. 306; 

 Decne. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 2, ii. 40. 



SuBALPiNE HiMAiLATA, alt. 9-12,000 ft., from Kashmir to Kumaon, frequent; 

 Wallick, Falconer, &o. 



A large shrub. Leaves 3i by If in., acute at both ends, secondary nerves pro- 

 minently reticulating beneath ; petiole ^-| in. Panicles denee-flo-wered ; bracts lan- 

 ceolate, deciduous, usually inconspicuous ; pedicels often 0, sometimes ^ in. Calyx 

 ^ in., subtruncate, minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous. Corolla purplish or white ; 

 tube J in. ; lobes 1 in. Capsule ^-J in., terete, 2-grooTed, acute. 



6. FRAXXNUS, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves opposite, unequally pinnate. Inflorescence terminal or on 

 shortened axillary buds falsely axillaiy. Flowm-s small, polygamous or dicBcious, 

 panicled, racemose or subfaacicled ; bracts caducous. Calyx small, 4-toothed, 

 or 0. Petals 0, or 2-4, free or connate in pairs at the base, nan-ow-oblong, in- 

 duplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens 2, attached near the base of the petals or 

 subhypogynous, filaments short or long. Ovary 2-celled ; style short or long, 

 bifid ; ovules in each cell 2, pendulous from its apex. Capgule samaroid, com- 

 pressed contrary to the partition, produced into a wing, 1-seeded, indehiscent. 

 Seed pendulous, oblong; albumen fleshy; cotyledons flat, radicle superior. — 

 DlSTElB. Species 30, in the north temperate regions of both hemispheres. 



Sect. I. Ornus. Petals 2-4. Flowers panicled, mostly hermaphrodite. 



1. P. floribunda, Wall. Cat. 2836, and in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey ^ 

 Wall. i. 150, and PI. As. Rar. iii. 47, t. 277 ; leaflets elliptic-lanceolate serrate 

 membranous, secondary nerves reticulated, samaras 1-1^ in. very narrow obtuse 

 or emarginate. Ban. Prodr. 106 ; DC. Prodr. viii. 275 ; Brand. For. Fl. 302, 

 t. 37. F. urophylla. Wall. Cat. 2835 ; DC. I. c. Ornus floribunda, Dietr. Sp. 

 PI. i. 249 ; Laud. Arb. 653, t. 1270. 0. urophylla, G. Don Om. Syst. iv. 57. 



Tempebatb and Sijbalpine Himalaya, alt. 5-11,000 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan ; 

 Wallich, Griffith, &o. Khasia Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft. ; Be 8ilva,H.f. ^ T. 



A large tree. Leaflets 3-4 pairs, 4 by IJ in., acutely acuminate, serratures close 

 shallow (in the Khasian F. urophylla more distant and coarse), glabrous, when young 

 pilose on the nerves beneath ; petiolules f in. Pedicels J in., in tufts on the branches 

 of the panicle. Calyx A-^ in. ; teeth acutely triangular in the typical Kumaon 

 plant, hardly any in the East Himalayan. Corollas-lobes ^—^ in., linear-oblong. Fila- 

 ments j5 in. Style short ; stigma long, deciduous Samara i in. wide upwards, nar- 

 rowed to the width 'of the seed at base. — F. retwsa. Champ, (according to Benth. Fl. 

 Hongk. 214), differs in the retuse samara and the sabtruncate calyx ; but, if .these 

 characteristics are specific, the East Himalayan and Khasian examples must be referred 

 to F. retusa. The Hongkong retusa differs however in the smaller samara, which 

 when fully ripe is less than 1 in. The flowers appear to grow larger westward ; in 

 "Wallich's type example of F.fioribtmda the petals are fully ^ in. 



2. P. Grlffitlili, Clarke ; leaflets elliptic obtusely acuminate entire coria- 

 ceous, secondary nerves obscure, samaras 1 in. very narrow obtuse or emar- 

 ginate, 



MiSHMEB ; " summit of a high mountain," Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3677). 



Griffith's example is in ripe fruit, and is perhaps a var. of F. flsriJnmda, but 

 differs more from it and from F. retusa than these do from each other. The leaflets 

 are very thick, acuminate, rostrate, rounded and sometimes widened at the tip. 



