Lmociera.] xcii. OLEACEj;. (0. B. Clarke.) 609 



very thick; nerves beneath somewhat obscure, inarching. Fruii 1 by | in,, rough, 

 blotched, fide Thwaites, but when dry does not differ in this respect from the neigh- 

 bouring species. — Thwaites's example is not in flower ; nor does Thwaites explicitly 

 state that the seed is exalbuminous. 



Vae. courtaUenais ; leaves elliptic-oblong subacute hardly acuminate drying red- 

 dish. Chionanthus courtallensis, Bedd. For. Man. 1S4.— CourtaUum, Wight. Tinne- 

 velly Ghats; Beddome. — A good-sized tree (Beddome), glabrous. Leaves 7^ by 2^ in., 

 nerves beneath subobseurely inarched. Panicles \-\ in., usually reduced to 3-5 sub- 

 simple racemes fascicled in each axil, glabrous. Pc<a& scarcely ^ in. 2)r«pe unknown. 

 — The flowers of this have been in the Herbarium matched with the fruit of L, 

 leprocarpa ; the identification must be uncertain until further material is received. 



6. la. intermedia, WigM Ic. t. 1245 ; glabrous, leaves eUiptie-oblong 

 acute at both ends secondary nerves prominent, panicles compound somewhat 

 dense, petals ^ in. narrowly oblong, drupe f by ^ in. Chionanthus intermedia, 

 Sedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 239. 



NiLGHEREiEs, alt. 1-6000 ft. ; Wight, Hohmacker, &o. Anamallays ; alt. SOOO ft., 

 Beddome. 



A large tree, Beddome, more often small. Leaves 6 J by 2^ in., chartaeeous ; 

 nerves 10 pairs, reticulations many prominent; petiole ^-1 in.. Panicle 2-5 in.; 

 branches compressed ; bracts gL in., ovate ; pedicels often hardly any. Gal/yx ^ in., 

 lobes ovate glabrous. Petals 4, shortly imited at the base, obscurely disposed in pairs. 

 Ovary glabrous. — Chionanthus picrophloia, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 139, t. 24, does not 

 appear to differ ; the inflorescence in the picture is subcapitate, but in the specimens 

 is densely paniculate, as in L. intermedia. 



Vae. Eoxburghii ; panicles smalh^r, drupes scarcely \ in., seed exalbuminous; 

 Olea paniculata, Eoxb. Caial. PI. (1813), and in Fl. Ind. ed. Garey Sf Wall. i. 104, 

 0. Eoxburghii, Spreng. Syst. i. 34 ; Wight Ic. t. 735, not of Wall. 0. Eoxburghiana, 

 Boem. et Sch. Mant. i. 77 ; DC. Prodr. viii. 288 ; Dale. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 159 ; 

 Bedd. For. Man. 153. — Orissa and Circars, Boxburgh, Chota Nagpore, alt. 2-5000 

 ft. ; J. D.' H., &c. Western Ghats ; Dalzell, Beddome, &c. — Sumbulpore ; Griffith. 

 Siwaliks ; Edgeworth. At 4500 ft. alt. this is a gnarled tree 25 ft. high. The 

 examples of Grif&th and Edgeworth have narrower (obovate-lanceolate) leaves. 

 Linociera ? oblonga. Wall. Cat. 28+3, from Ava, appears the same, but the example 

 consists of very young fruits and leaves only. 



7. Ii. pauciflora, Clarhe ; glabrous, leaves large elliptic-oblong some- 

 what acuminate coriaceous, panicles very small. Olea pauciflora, Wall. Cat. 

 2812, letter a only; DC. Prodr. viii. 2S,&, partly. 



Pknang ; Wallich. 



Leaves 7\ by 2^ in., shortly obtusely acuminate, base cuneate; nerves 11 pairs, 

 snbprominent beneath, secondary nerves obsciire ; petiole j- in. Panicles reduced to 

 subsimple erect spikes 1 in. Flowers in bud, seem likely to be small. Drupe not 

 seen. — This could hardly be distinguished from L. leprocarpa, var. courtallensis, but 

 by the subaolitary racemes. If, however, as Wallich supposed, the next variety is 

 really ifs young fruit, it must be altogether different. 



Vae. evolutior; ner?es more distinct, petioles 1-1 J in., panicles in young fruit 

 2-6 in. compound lax, branches stout angular, pedicels thickened. L. pauciflora. 

 Wall. Cat. 2812, b only. — Penang; Wallich. Tenasserim or Andamans, Heifer. — 

 The seeds are immature but probably exalbuminous. 



Vab. palembanica ; leaves as of L. poMciflora, Wall, a, panicles 2-5 in. compound, 

 petals j'j in. elliptic-oblong, fruits not seen. Chionanthus palembanica, Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. Suppl. 558; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 159, and in Journ. As. Soo. 1877, pt. ii. 243. — 

 Andamans ; Kurz, Heifer. — Kurz says the drupe is 1-1 J in., ovoid to oblong. In one 

 branch of Heifer's the petioles vary from i to | in. The upper bracts are sometimes 

 I in., subfoliaceous, both in Miijuers and Heifer's examples, 



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