968 LXXVII. BTVRAOACEJS. [Symplocos. 



3. S. paucistamineus (stamens few), F. v. M. and Bail. Srd SuppL 8yn. Ql. 

 Fl. 46. A tall shrub, branchlets as well as the petioles, peduncles, and bracts 

 densely beset with spreading brownish hairs. Leaves from 8 to 6in. long, nearly- 

 ovate or verging somewhat into a lanceolar form, variously acuminate," remotely 

 or imperfectly serrulated, dark-green above and soon almost glabrous, beneath 

 pale-green and there the keel and main venules bearing copious brownish hairs, 

 chartaceous in texture. Petioles short. Flowering spikes attaining 2in. in 

 length but frequently shorter, terminal, axillary or lateral, solitary fascicular or 

 paniculate. Bracts and bracteoles very small and acute. Flowers quite small. 

 Calyx-lobes semilanceolate or bluntly elliptical, the outside scantily beset with 

 hairs. Corolla only about 2 lines long, pale-coloured, glabrous, the segments 

 hardly connected at the base, about twice as long as the calyx. Stamens 15 or 

 even fewer, mostly shorter than the corolla, inserted near its base. Anthers 

 nearly ovate, yellowish, inserted above the base. Style glabrous, about IJ line 

 jong. Stigma dilated, somewhat 3-lobed. Ovary 3-celled. Fruit not seen. 



Hab.: Harvey's Creek, Bellenden Ker Expedition, 1889. 



Order LXXVIII. OLEACE^. 



Flowers regular. Calyx-free, usually small, the limb of 4 or 5 or rarely more 

 teeth or lobes or rarely truncate and entire. Corolla with a long or short tube, 

 and 4 or 5 or rarely more lobes, or divided to the base into 4 petals or rarely, in 

 genera not Australian, 2-petaled or wanting. Stamens 2, adhering to the base 

 of the corolla, on opposite sides of the ovary, the filaments usually short ; anthers 

 2-celled ; the cells opening in longitudinal slits. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 or rarely 

 1 or 3 ovules in each cell, laterally attached in. the young state but becoming 

 pendulous or ascending according to the growth of the ovary. Fruit succulent 

 or capsular, entire or 2-lobed, 2-called or reduced to a single cell and seed. 

 Seeds with or without albumen. Embryo straight. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes 

 climbing, very rarely reduced to herbs. Leaves opposite or very rarely alternate, 

 entire or pinnate. Flowers in axillary or terminal panicles, sometimes reduced 

 to short simple racemes or sessile clusters. 



A small Order, dispersed over the greater part of the warmer or temperate regions of the 

 globe. Of the 5 Australian genera, 4 have a very wide range, 2 in the Old World only, 2 in 

 both the New and the Old, and the fifth is endemic. 



Teibe I. Jasmlueae. — Gorolla-lohes 5 or more. Ovules (often solitary) and seeds ascending 

 or erect. No albumen. 



Fruit succulent, indehisoent 1. Jasminum. 



Teibe II. Olelnes. — Corolla-lobes or petals i. Ovules and seeds pendulous. 

 Petals 4, quite distinct or connected in pairs by the stamens. Fruit a drupe. 



Seed without albumen. Panicles axillary, rarely reduced to a single sessile 

 cluster . . . • 2. Linocieba. 



Seed albuminous. Racemes axillary, simple 3. Notelsia. 



Corolla with a short tube and 4 lobes. 



Fruit a drupe. Seed albuminous. Panicles axillary or rarely terminal . . 4. Olea. 



Fruit a berry. Panicles all terminal 5, Ligustktjm. 



1. JASMINUM, Linn. 

 (From the Arabian name.) 

 Corolla-tube cylindrical, the limb spreading, 5 to 8-lobed, the lobes imbricate, 

 often contorted in the bud. Stamens included in the tube. Ovary (at the time 

 of flowering) entire or notched, 2-celled, with 1 ovule (or in species not Australian 

 sometimes 2 or even 3 ovules) in each cell, laterally attached, but becoming erect 

 as the ovary enlarges ; style inserted in the notch, minutely 2-lobed at the tip. 

 Berry 2-lobed almost to the base, or entire by the failure of 1 carpel. Seed 

 usually sohtary in each lobe, erect, without albumen; cotyledons thick and 

 fleshy, radicle scarcely prominent.— Shrubs or climbers. Leaves opposite or 



