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XCIII. OLEACE^. 



1. OLEA. 



1. RoxBTJRGHiANA, Roem. and Schult. syxt. Maut. i, p 77. — A 

 small but handsome tree ; leaves oblong, attenuated at the base, 

 quite entire, glabrous, waved ; panicles axillary, and springing from 

 beneath the leaves, lax, many-flowered ; flowers white, appear in 

 the hot weather; fruit small, purple. Common on the Ghauts. 

 Syn. O paniculata, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, p 105; O roxburghii, Spr. 

 syst. i, p 34. 



'2. DioicA, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, p 106. — A pretty lajrge tree ; leaves 

 oblong, acute at both ends, remotely and acutely serrated, 4 to 8 

 inches long, quite smooth ; panicles springing from below the 

 leaves, short and few-flowered ; drupe in size and colour like the 

 common Sloe. Khaiidalla, Mahableshwur, Wag Donger, near 

 Vingorla ; flowers in July. The timber is excellent, and put to 

 various uses. Native name " Parrjamb," also " Karamba." 



2. LIGUSTRUM, Tourn. 



1. L Neilgherrensb, Wight Ic. 1243. — Avboreous, glabrous ; 

 leaves ovate, elhptic-acute, or cuspidately-acuminate, coriaceous ; 

 thyrses of white fragrant flowers, on the ends of the branches lax ; 

 fruit black, linear-oblong, small. Syn. Phillyrea microphylla, 

 Graham's Cat. p 108. All along the Ghauts, from Hurrychunder 

 to the Parwar Ghaut below Goa. 



3. LINOCIERA, Swartz. 



1. Malabarica, Wall, hst No. 2828. — A small tree; leaves 

 elliptic-obtuse, attenuated towards the base, smooth on both sides ; 

 racemes axillary, much shorter than the leaf, few-flowered ; pedicels 

 bearing 1 to 3 sessile flowers at the top ; pedicels and calyx pube- 

 scent ; petals linear-channelled. Khandalla, Ram Ghaut, &c. The 

 flowers, which appear in November and December, have the fra- 

 grance of ripe apples. Law. 



XCIV. BIGNONIACEiE. 



1. BIGNONIA, DC. 



1. B Xylocarpa, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 108. — Arboreous, gla- 

 brous ; leaves bitripinnate ; petiole sharply-angular, leaflets petioled ; 

 ovate or oblong-acuminated, membranaceous, reticulately veined ; 

 panicle corymbose; branches dichotomous; calyx unequally 



