OLEA. 
2T 
above, furfuraceous and mostly silvery-grey or hoary beneath ; 
fl. in erect axillary mostly simple few-fld. or compound many- 
fld. brachiately divaricate panicled rac. or racemose panicles ; 
fr. ellipsoidal, ovoidal or globose, drooping. — Linn. Sp. 11: 
Vill. I)auph. ii. 5; Lam. Diet. iv. 537; ejusd. 111. t. 8. f . 1 ; 
Desf. i. 9 ; Brot. i. 10 ; Pers. i. 8 ; Ait. Ilort. Kew. i. 21 ; Spr. 
i. 34; Risso Hist. Nat. ii. 6 with a good fig.; WB. iii. 161; 
Koch 553; DC. viii. 284; Gren. et Godr. ii. 474; Willk. et 
Lange ii. 672. 
(3. mciderensis Lowe; shr. somewhat loosely branched, 
branches subelongate slender ; 1. nerveless or veinless especially 
beneath, linear-lanceolate acuminato-cuspidate much attenuate 
downwards into the distinct moderately long petioles, * glossy 
dull greyish gr. above, paler but not silvery w. beneath, the 
margins slightly reflexed or revolute ; panicles ebracteate di- 
stinctly stalked solitary axillary or both axillary and terminal, 
erect, once or twice compound somewhat loosely or remotely 
many-fld., about half the length of the 1., pyramidal brachiately 
and divaricately branched, branches opposite horizontally pa- 
tent or deflexed, racemosely 3-5- or more-fid., rarely again 
branched or twice compound; fr. rather small subgloboso- 
ovoidal shining purplish black scarcely fleshy. — Lowe Novit. 
(1838) p. 15 or 537. O. europcea f3. cerasiformis WB. (1840) 
iii. 162. O. europcea, 11 Sp. valde simile Olece glabella ” (scil. 
Herb. Banks. = O. exasperata Jacq.), “Fructus parvi subro- 
tundi stylo persistente coronati” Buch ! Mad. List 192. no. 168. 
u O. divaricata Banks. MS. Smith’s Herb.” Lemann in litt. 
Elaagnus angustifolia Sol ! in BH. quoad ex. Mad. (not Linn.). 
— Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1, |. Sea-clifis here and there all along 
the S. coast of Mad., more rarely in the N. A little out of 
Funchal to the eastward along the Cani9o road on the sea-cliffs 
and sides of ravines, S. Gon^allo ; on the E. face of the Brazen 
Head ; at Camera de Lobos close above the bridge beyond the 
town ascending out of the ravine, on the right of the road ; at 
the top of Cabo Girao on the face of the cliff towards its further 
or W. end ; on the Ilheo do Porto da Cruz, &c. FI. and fr. 
May, June. — A low somewhat loosely branched shr., 2 or 3 to 
6 or 8 ft. high, with pale dull grey or hoary (not silvery) foliage. 
Branches slender straight virgate grey or whitish, smooth but 
sprinkled with little tumid wartlike lenticels, quadrangular 
while young. L. with petioles 1^-3 in. long, 3 lines wide, 
stiffish but not rigid, sharply cuspidate and almost pungent at 
the tips, punctate glabrescent and shining above, closely scaly 
or punctato-lepidote and duller but not much paler or greyer 
beneath ; their petioles 2-3 lines long. Panicles stalked axil- 
lary rarely also terminal, 1-2 in. long, |-f broad at the base, 
their stalks £-5 in. long, rarely more than once compound, the 
