iMioeiera-l xcii. oleaceje. (0. B. Clarke.) 611 



SiLHET ; Wallich. Assam ; Griffith, Jenkins. Khasu ; Griffith. 



A small tree ; glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 8 by-2J in. (sometimes 9^ by 4 in.), 

 ilcute at both ends, chartaceous, often punctate on the upper surface ; nerves 10-13 pairs, 

 secondary distinct ; petiole 1-lJ in. Panicles 1-lJ in. in the type specimens, 1-4 in. 

 in . cultivated ones ; bracts minute. Calyx glabrous. Petals obtuse, margins little 

 incurved. Ova/n/ glabrous ; style short. Fruit elongate ellipsoid, on greatly thickened 

 pedicels ; endoearp crustaceous ; testa thin ; albumen 0. 



Vab. attenuata ; panicle more lax, in fruit slenderer with pedicels less thickened. 

 L. tenuiflora, Wall. Cat. 2827 ; DC. Prodr. viii. 298. Olea attenuata, Wall. Cat. 2839 ; 

 DC. I. c. 286. Chionanthus ramiflora, Boxb. Sort. Beng. 3, and Fl. Ind. Caret/ ^ 

 Wall. i. 106 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. 301. Phillyrea ramiflora, Roxh. Ic. Ined. — Pegu 

 and Tenasserim ; Wallich, Griffith. Andamans ; Kure.— Distkib. Ava, Malaya, 

 Tropical Australia.' — This has been placed as a variety of L. intermedia, Wight, and 

 it does not greatly differ but by the smaller flowers and the much slenderer panicle. — 

 L. ramiflora. Wall. Cat. 2824 [DC. I.e. 297), cultivated specimen, is remarkable for 

 the intricately divaricately ramous panicle, the pedicels being nearly all i to J in. The 

 whole series only differs in the development of the panicle, and (slightly) in the size 

 of the flowers ; and perhaps L. intermedia, maorophylla and ramiflora (with their 

 varieties) form but one species, extending over Southern and Eastern India, Malaya 

 and Australia. 



SPECIES NOT SEEN. 



L._ coTCNiForiA, Vahl ; DC. Prodr. viii. -297 ; is founded on Pluk. Aim. t. 241, fig. 

 4, which represents a Ceylon shrub with leaves very villous beneath and 6-merous 

 flowers, and is therefore not of the genus. 



L. ? LOEANTHiFOLiA, Woil. Cat. 2842, from Amherst, has only twigs and a few 

 leaves which resemble those of Salvadora persica. 



L. MuBLLEEi, Van Heurck PI. Nov. 124, collected by Griffith near Malacca, is 

 perhaps Bouea microphylla, Griff. ; J. D. Hook. Fl, Brit. Ind. ii. 21. (It has 4 

 stamens). 



Chionanthus ? G'b.mb.i, Gaertn. ; DC. Prodr. viii. 295 ; from Ceylon, of which' 

 the leaves and flowers are unknown, remains obscure. 



NuTELJiA PosuA, Don Prodr. 107 ; leaves opposite elliptic-oblong acuminate, 

 peduncles axillary drooping clustered 1 -flowered, calyx-teeth equal, stigma capitate. 



NiPAL ; Narainhetty, Hamilton (fide Don). Probably a Linodera. 



Leaves 4-5 by ) J-2 in. Petals 4, ovate united at the base in pairs by the filaments. 

 Drnpe with subchartaceous endoearp. — Copied from Don. 



8. OXiEA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. Flowei's small, her- 

 maphrodite dioecious or polygamous, in axillaocy or terminal panicles ; bracts 

 minute. Calyx small, 4-toothed or -lobed. Coi-olla-tube short ; lobes 4, indupli- 

 cate-valvate, or 0. Stamens 2, on the corolla-tube or subhypogynous, filaments 

 short ; anthers oblong. Ovary 2-celled ; style short, stigma ovate or shortly 

 2-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell, subpendulous or attached laterally to the septum. 

 Drupe ellipsoid or subglobose, endoearp bony or crustaceous, usually l-seeded. 

 Seed pendulous, albumen fleshy ; radicle superior. — Distkib. Species 35 in the 

 Old' World, from the North Temperate Zone to South Africa and New Zealand. 



1. O. cuspidata, Wall. Cat. 2817 ; leaves oblong, nerves beneath en- 

 tirely obscured by felted ferruginous scajes, panicles short axillary, flowers 

 bisexual coroUoid, ovary glabrous, drupe J in. ellipsoid. DC. Prodr. viii. 286; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 307, t. 38; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 36. 0. ferruginea, Boyle 111. 

 257, t. 65, fig. 1. 



NoETHWEST HiMAiATA and Kashmik, alt. 2-6000 ft., frequent. Disteib. Cabul, 

 Beloochistan. 



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