lAgustrum.] xc'ii. oleace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 615 



defers the Nilgherry portion of lAgmirum, u. 5, H.f. ^ T., to his L. cmfusum, which 

 is certainly erroneous ; it is either L. Walkeri or closely allied thereto. 



Vae. tubiflora; corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx. Olea Roxburghii, Wall. 

 Cat. 2816 B only. — Deecan Peninsula; Belgaum, Dr. Bitchie; Herb. Heyne, Wallick. 

 — Corolla-tube much slenderer thau in L. neilgherrense, Wight ; anthers exsert. — These 

 are very doubtful plants ; Ritchie's has a bracteate paniclcj and subovate leaves, but 

 the drupe is as of L. WaUceri. 



3. Ii., Roxburg'hil, Clarke ; Ibranches lenticellate, leaves ovate-lanceolate 

 acuminate coriaceous, panicle stout pubescent, flowers clustered, corolla-tube 

 broad as long as the calyx, drupe ^ by ^ in. L. Candolleanum, Slume Mus. 

 Bot. i. 315, not of Dene. L. robustum, Bedd. For. Man. 154, not of Blume. 

 L. compactum, Dene, in Nouv. Arch. Mug. 2, ii. 23, not of H. f. ^ T. Olea 

 Roxburghii, WaU. Cat. 2816, not of Spreng. noi- of Wight. Visiania robusta, 

 TFiffht Ic. t. 1242. Phillyrea term'inalis. Herb. Roxb. 



Mts. of the Deccan Peninsula, alt. 4-7000 ft., very common. 



A small tree. Leaves 3J- by J in., base obtuse ; nerves 8 pairs, slender but well- 

 defined and somewhat regular ; petiole J in. Panicles often 8 by 6 in., brachiate ; 

 bracts lanceolate, foliaeeous or ; pedicels hardly any, clusters of flowers often some- 

 what whorled. Corolla | in., much larger thau in L. robrntum ; tube sometimes con- 

 siderably exceeding the calyx. — Blume founds his species on Wall. Cat. 2816 E, which 

 he (by error) supposes to have come from Nipal. Decaisne has not included Wight's 

 icon, t. 1242, in his monograph; but he has named the specimens belonging to th&t 

 picture, L. compactnm, perhaps because of the distinct regular nervation of the leaves, 

 which is similar. This species has been known as " the stout Nilgherry form of L. 

 roMistum," but it differs as much from L. robustv/m of Silhet as does any Indian 

 Ligiistrmn. The confusion which has enveloped this species arises from its having 

 been named by Wight Phillyrea panioulata, Eoxb., which is = lAgustrum luoidum, 

 Alton = Olea elavata, Don = 0. Boxbiwghii, Spreng. (Wight Ic. t. 735), a Chinese 

 plant, cultivated both at Calcutta and in Europe, closely allied to L. Soxburghii, but 

 having the panicle glabrous. 



4. Ii. nellg'herrense, Wight Ic. 1. 1243, not of Dene. ; leaves ovate acute 

 coriaceous, panicle dense, branches glabrous lenticeUate, corolla-tube twice as 

 long as the calyx, drupe j^ by |- in. L. Oandolleanuih, Dene, in Nouv. Arch. 

 Mus. 2, ii. 28, not of Blume. Olea Koxbm-ghii, WaU. Cat. 2816, E ordy. 



Mts. of the Deccan Peninsula, frequent; Dindyghul, Nilgherries, Bababoodun 

 Hills, &e. 



United (very probably correctly) with L, Soxburghii by Beddome ; it differs in 

 the larger flowers (corolla-tube J in.) and in the glabrous panicle, the branches of 

 which are quadrangular lenticellate in fruit, instead of round and hairy as in L. Rox- 

 burghii. The leaves also are not acuminate, often subobtuse, sometimes orbicular 

 (2^ by 2 in.). — Decaisne has marked a typical example of this from Herb. Wight 

 (flower and fruit) L. compactum ; the Kumaon L. compactwm has a shorter corolla- 

 tube with reflexed lobes more closely-nerved aeuter leaves, and a very different-looking 

 less rigid fruit-panicle with compressed flexuose branches. 



Vae. obovata, Dene, in Nouv. Arch. Mus, 2, ii. 22 ; leaves subobtuse, corolla 

 rather shorter. — Mts. of the Deccan Peninsula. — Cannot be satisfactorily distinguished 

 from L. neilgherrense. 



6. Xi. Perrottetii, A. DC. in DC. Prodr. viii. 294; branches rarely 

 lenticellate, leaves smallish elliptic acute at both ends, panicles thyrsoid mi- 

 nutely pubescent, corolla-tube nearly twice the calyx, drupe j by ;J in. Wight 

 Ic. t. 1244 ; Bedd. For. Man, 153, and Anal. Gen. i. 19, fig. 6 ; Dene, in Nouv, 

 Arch. Mus. 2, ii. 32. 



Mts. of the Deccan Peninsula, frequent ; Nilgherries, Pulneys, Wight, Gardner, 

 &e. 



