NoteUa.] LXXVIII. OLEACE^. 973 



2. N. longifolia (long-leaved), Vent. Choii-. t. 25 ; Benth. Fl. Aiistr. iv. 299. 

 A tall shrub or small slender tree, the branches and under side of the leaves 

 in the typical form or rarely both sides of the leaves pubescent with short 

 hairs, sometimes soft and dense, sometimes scarcely visible without a lens or 

 the whole plant quite glabrous. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute 

 or acuminate, tapering into a petiole often rather long,' coriaceous but sometimes 

 thin, prominently and irregularly reticulate on both sides, 2 to 6in. long. 

 Flowers small, in axillary racemes rarely lin. long, and flowering usually from 

 near the base. Pedicels at first nearly as long as the flowers, much longer 

 when in fruit. Calyx exceedingly small, obscurely toothed, opening flat. 

 Petals scarcely 1 line long, broad, concave. Anthers large, almost sessile. 

 Fruit ovoid or globular, said to be about ^in. diameter when fresh, of a dark- 

 bluish colour with a very succulent mesocarp and hard endocarp.- — E. Br. Prod. 

 523 ; DC. Prod. viii. 291 ; N. reticulata, DC. I.e.; Olea apetala, Andr. Bot. Eep. 

 t. 316, not of Vahl.; X. ovata, Endl. Iconogr. t. 55, not of B. Br.; A'', venosa, 

 F. V. M. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 131 ; and in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 

 163 ; N. rigida, Sieb. PI. Exs. 



Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, Fraser, F. v. Mueller; Eoekingham 

 Bay, Dallachy. A very common tree in the colony. 

 Wood of a light colour, hard, tough, and close-grained. — Bailey's Cat, Ql. Woods No. 273. 



3. N. punctata (leaves dotted), R. Br. Prod. 524 ; Benth. Fl. Aiistr. iv. 

 300. Very near the glabrous form of N. longifolia. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 2 to Bin. long, tapering into a rather long petiole, reticulate above as in N. 

 longifolia, but the under surface scarcely showing any veins and densely covered 

 with small raised dots. Flowers of N. longifolia. Fruit ovoid, much smaller 

 than in that species, and scarcely larger than in TV. niicrocarpa. — DC. Prod. viii. 

 291. 



Hab.: Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 



4. M". microcarpa (small-fruited), R. Br. Prod. 524 ; Benth. Fl. Aitstr. 

 iv. 300. A small tree with slender laranches, glabrous, but the young parts 

 often whitish. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, tapering into a short 

 petiole, 2 to sometimes 7in. long, the veins prominent on the upper side, the 

 primary ones very oblique and some of them nearly parallel to the margin, 

 anastomosing with the irregular netted veinlets, all scarcely conspicuous on the 

 under side. Raceme short and often dense, sessile in the axils. Flowers very 

 small. Fruit usually globular and under Jin. diameter. 



Hab.: Broadsound, R.Brown; Wide Bay, woods of the Paris Exhibition, 1855, n. 82, G. 

 Moore ; Castle Creek, Bowman; Eockhampton, Thozet; Gilbert River, R. Daintree. 



Wood of a light colour, dark towards the centre ; close-grained and very hard. — Bailey's Cat. 

 Ql. Woods No. 274. 



5. N. linearis (leaves linear), Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 300. An erect bushy 

 shrub of 3 to 5ft., quite glabrous, the young branches not at all white. Leaves 

 linear or very narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, tapering into a very short 

 petiole, 1 to 2in. long, thick and smooth, with thickened nerve-like margins, 

 the veins quite inconspicuous on both sides. Flowers small in short sessile 

 racemes. Fruit as small as in N. microcarpa. 



Hab.: Inland southern localities. 



4. OLEA, Linn. 



(Prom the Greek name of the Olive.) 



Calyx short, 4-toothed. Corolla with a short tube and 4 lobes, slightly 



imbricate or valvate in the bud, rarely (in species not Australian) wanting. 



Ovules 2 in each cell of the ovary, pendulous. .Style short. Fruit a drupe, 



