OLEA GLANDULIFERA. (Nat. order Jasmines.) 



OLEA. Linn.— GEN. CHAR. Calyx short 4-toothed, corol with a short tube and i lobes, slightly imbricate or valvate in the bud (rarely 

 wanting), ovules 2 in each cell of the ovary pendulous, style short, fruit a drupe the endocarp usually hard, seed solitary or rarely 2, albumen copioua fleshy. 

 Trees or rarely shrub,?, leaves opposite entire, flowers small in axillary panicles or clusters, rarely also terminal. 



OLEA GLANDULIFERA. (Wall.) A very large tree, leaves entire glabrous ovr.l, ovate, or elliptic, terminating In 

 rather a sudden acumination at the apex, rounded or more or less attenuated at the base, furnished with hollow hairy glands In the 

 axils of the veins beneath, 4-5 inches long by 2-2J inches broad, petiole 6-10 lines long, panicles axillary and terminal shorter than 

 the leaves, glabrous, calyx ciliate, covol glandular very deeply 4-cleffc leaving a very short tube, ovary glabrous, stigma large capitate 

 papillose, fruit about |- an inch long. 



This tree is abundant on the northern slopes of the Nilgiris (Ouchterlony's valley), elevation 4-5000/eei, and 1 also have it from the 

 Anamallays, and it is found in Nepal. As far as J have observed this species, it is a very large tree and by far the largest of the genus; but Dr> 

 Wight found it in woods about the Avalanche as a small tree; this was probably owing to the elevation (6000 feet.) 



Analysis. 



1. A flower bud. 



2. A flower opening. 



3. A full flower. 



4. The corol and stamens removed. 



5. The corol, showing that it is monopetalous with a very short tube. 



6. Anthers. 



7. Ovary, style and stigma. 



8. Ovary cut vertically, showing the pendulous ovules. 



9. Ovary cut transversely, showing the 2 cells. 



10. A fruit. 



11. The same cut vertically. 



12. The seed. 



13. The same cut vertically, showing the embryo lying in albumen. 



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