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LS.XI. OLiEACEiS 



[Olea 



A middle-sized tree, heartwood olive-brown to nearly black, often beautifully 

 mottled, extremely hard. L. lanceolate, cuspidate, entire, the upper side deep 

 glossy green, the under side, as well as branchlets and petioles clothed with a 

 dense ferrugineous or red, sometimes grey film of minute orbicular more or less 

 lobed scales, midrib prominent, sec. n. obscure, blade 2-4, pet. 1-] in. long, 

 n. whitish, bisexual, in axillary panicles, about half the length of 1. Corolla 

 rotate, lobes ovate, acute. Drupe ovoid, \-l in. long, black when ripe, 

 supported by the remains of calyx, pulp scanty, oily, stone thick, hard, 

 bony. 



Baluchistan. Afghanistan. Subman range, Trans Indus. North Webt Himalaya, 

 ascending to 6,000 ft. ; also in the dry inner vail ej^s. Fl. Apiil-Jnne. Combs made 

 of the wood. Closely allied to Olea eiiropcBa^ Linn., the 'European Olive, which (the 

 ungrafted tree) has spinescent branchlets, leaves grey above, white beneath, a more 

 dense inflorescence and larger fruit. 



2. O. glandulifera, Wall. ; Wight Ic. t 1238 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 238. 

 Vern. (?ca>, Galld, Jaunsar, Garhwal. 



A small or middle-sized wholly glabrous tree, trunk short, with a broad 



JFig. 170. Olea glandulifera, "Wall. J. 



umbrageous crown, wood reddish, close-grained, hard. L. elliptic or ovate, 

 long acuminate, sec. n. SS pair, in their axils on the underside small oval 

 cavities, blade 4-5, petiole 1-li in. long. M. white, bisexual, in terminal 

 and lateral compound pyramidal trichotomous panicles, corolla rotate. Fr. 

 ovoid, I in. long, endocarp crustaceous. 



Outer Himalayan ranges, Kashmir to Nepal 1,900-6,000 ft., scattered in mixed woods, 

 often associated with Acer oblonijxim, Bababudan hills. Ooorg. Nilgiris, Anamalais. 

 PI March-May. B. 0. dentata, Wall, Mishmee and Kha&i hills. Hills of Lower and 

 Upper Burma. Branchlets and panicles more or less pubescent, 1. coriaceous, toothed 

 or entire, lanceolate, blade 5-7, pet. ^ in, long. Fl. dioicous, i'n panicles as long as or 

 longer than L, calyx hairy, corolla J in. long, 4. A large climber (Clai'ke 42047. 

 Manipnr 6,500 ft, Nov. 1885). L. coriaceous, lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, blade 5-6 



