xcii. OLEACEa!. (0. B. Clarke.) 607 



Carey §• Wall. i. 104 ; Wcdl. Cat. 2810 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1652 ; Blume Mm. Sot. 

 i. 316 ; Brand. For. Fl. 309. O. acuminata, Wall. Cat. 2809 ; BC.l. c. 285. 



Temperate Hjbbai^ta, a}t. 4-7000 ft., from Gurwhal to Sikkim; Wallioh, H.f. 

 4' T., &c. Knisii Mts. ; Griffith, Lohb. (According to Brandis only planted in 

 Gurwhal and tEumaon). — Distbib. China, Japan, cultivated. 



A small tree or a shrub. Leaves 7 hy 2 in., entire in the wild plants, often 

 serrated in the cultivated, coriaceous ; petiole | in. Pedicels j-f in., densely fascicled, 

 often in the upper axils, rarely terminal. Calyx less than ^ in., 4-toothed. Corolla 

 divided nearly to the base ; lobes oblong. Drwpes J by I in., ellipsoid. — The fruit is 

 only known from the Kumaoh tree (a cultivated plant, ex Brandh). The cultivated 

 0. fragrans is not known to produce fruit elsewhere. 



2. O. suavis, King in iHerb. Cdlc. ; leaves lanoeoilate acute, calyx ^J in. 

 deeply 4r-lobed, eorollartube J--^ in. Olea sp., Oriff. Itin. Notes, 166, n. 785. 



SxjBAXPiNB Himalata; Sikkim and East ifipal, alt. 9-10,000 ft., Tonglo and 

 Kalapookree, J". B.B,., King; 3hotan Griffith. 



A bush, 12 ft., or a small tree (King'). Leaves Sf by 1 in., acute, base cuneate, 

 minutely crenate-serrate, coriaceous ; petiole J in. PeAicels 0-j in., in dense axillary 

 and terminal fascicles. Flowers polygamous. Calyx-lobes oblong, obtuse, micro- 

 scopically pubescent. Corolla^tube \ in. and upwards (both in the male and herma- 

 phrodite .flowers) in King's specimens ; in Griffith's varying from jij to | in. (in flowers 

 male or -nearly male) ; corolla-lobes ^ in., strongly imbricated in the bud. Anthers 

 subsessile near the top of the tube, elliptic, acute. Style ^ in., tip bifid. Drupe 

 i-|- by J-J in., ellipsoid ; endocarp thin, crustaceous. JIbamen copious, fleshy. — 

 Griffith made a long MS. note on this species : it does not agree well with Osmanthus 

 to which King refers it, but there appears no other place ifor it unless a new genus. 



7. ZiIsrOCIEXtA, SwaHz. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers in axillary (rarely ter- 

 minal) panicles or cymes, often in small terminal fascicles ; bracts at the divi- 

 sions small. Calyx small, 4-fid. Petals 4, long or short, nearly free, or cohe- 

 ring by pairs, or very shortly connate, induplicate-valvate in bud. Stamens 2 ; 

 filaments short; anthers elliptic, dehiscing on the margin. Ovary 2-celled; 

 style short, stigma obscurely bifid or entire ; ovules 2 in each cell, penduious 

 from its apex. Drv/pe ellipsoid (rarely globose) ; endocarp bony or crustaceous. 

 Seed usually solitary, pendulous, testa thin, albumen fleshy plentiful or ; 

 radicle superior. — Disirib. Species 40, in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



Olea only differs by having the corolla more distinctly tubular. Many authors 

 place the albuminous species in Olea, and the exalbuminons -in Lmooiera ; but the 

 albumen is unknown in so many species that this arrangement is inconvenient, while 

 it throws into different genera the very long-petaled species closely allied in every 

 point except the albumen. 



Sect, I. Eulinociera. Seeds albuminous {Petals elongate). 



1. Zi. malabarlca, Wall. Cat. 2828 ; leaves broadly oblong hardly acu- 

 minate, flowers in small clusters, calyx-lobes grey-pilose, petal ^ in. linear-lan- 

 ceolate connected in pairs, ovary pilose. DC. Prodr. viii. 297 ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 1246; Balz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 159. Ohionanthus malabarica, fie(M. For. 

 Man. 164, and Fl. Sylv. t. 239,^^. in corner. 



Deccan Peninsula ; from the Concan, Dalsell, to Courtallum, Wight ; frequent. 



A small tree. Leaves i by 1| in., subobtuse or very suddenly narrowed to an 

 obtuse apex, base cuneate, glabrous, .coriaceous, nerves obscure; petiole J- in. 

 Peduncles short, axillary, fascicled, numerous, gray-pilose, sparingly panicled; 

 bracts ^ in., ovate, grey-pilose. Calyx-lobes ^ in., ovate, grey-pilose on the back. 



