CHIONANTHUS INTERMEDIA. (Nat. order Jasmines.) 



CHIONANTHUS. Linn. — GEN. CHAR. Calyx small 4-lobed, corol of 4 narrow small or elongated petals quite distinct or slightly con* 

 nected at the base induplicate-valvate in the bud, anthers extrorse, OYules 2 in each cell of the ovary attached to the centre of the axis, style short, fruit 

 a drupe, seeds usually solitary without albumen, cotyledons thick and fleshy sometimes slightly ruminate. Trees or shrubs, leaves opposite entire, flowers 

 in arillary panicles rarely reduced to sessile clusters.— Linociera, Swartz. 



CHIONANTHUS INTERMEDIA. (Wight.) A large tree, perfectly glabrous, leaves lanceolate gradually acuminated at 

 both ends and terminating in rather a fine point at the apex, deep shining green, 5-6 inches long by 1 \-^\ inches broad, petioles about 

 1 inch long, pauicles ax'.llary about two-thirds the length of the leaves, bracteated at the ramifications, flowers on short pedicels glabrous 

 in all their parts 3-5 together on the ends of the ramuli, occasionally male by abortion, petals 4 all slightly cohering though easily 

 separable at the base, stigma 2 lobed, ovules attached to the centre of the axis, fruit oblong pointed \\ inches long by 10 lines broad, 

 — Linociera intermedia, Wight Icones tab. 1245, 



The specimen here figured was collected on the Ananxallays (banks of the Toracadu) 5000 feet elevation, and was a large handsome 

 tree. 1 have specimens from the Conoor ghat, Nilgiris, where Wight collected the typical specimens, and they differ in no way except in the size of 

 the fruit ; the timber is esteemed by the natives. 



Analysis. 



1. A flower bud. 



2. A fall flower, the petals induplicatsly valvate. 



3. The same petals removed, showing the ovary and 2-lobed stigma. 



4. Corol removed, the 4 petals distinct and easily separable but adnate to each other at the base. 



5. A pair of petals joined by the anther ; on removing the latter they separate. 



6. A single petal, showing its inflexed margins. 



7. Anthers, front and back view. 



8. Ovary cut vertically, showing the ovules attached to the centre of the axis. [In our 3 species of Chionanthus, the ovules 



are attached to the centre of the axis, or suberect from slightly below the centre ; in all our species of Olea that 

 I have dissected the ovules are pendulous from near the apex-] 



9. Ovary cut transversely, showing the 2 cells each with 2 ovules. 

 10. Ripe fruit, natural size. 



