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It produces edible fruits. A single tree grows in the Government 
Nursery grounds. The Japanese privet, Ligustrum ovalifolium 
Hassk., is also in cultivation besides Jasminum multiflorum (Burm. ) 
Roth., the Star Jasmin, trained over fences and pergolas; it is in 
blossom all the year round. 
Linociera intermedia Wight, 
var. Roxburghii C. B. Clark 
The variety Roxburghii of Linociera intermedia, C. B. Clark, 
also known as Olea paniculata Roxb., is a medium - sized tree 
with papery leaves six and a half by two and a half inches, which 
are on petioles of a half to one inch. The flowering panicle varies 
from two to five inches in length, and has compressed branches. The 
flowers are white and consist of four petals and two elliptical, shorter 
stamens. The fruit is of the shape of an olive, glaucous and about 
half an inch or less long. 
This species is a native of India, where it occurs in the Nilgherry 
hills up to an elevation of 6000 feet. There are very few trees of 
this species in Honolulu ; one is in Mrs. Jaeger's premises. There is 
also a specimen in Hilo. The wood is pale brown, hard, close 
grained and durable, and is valued in the manufacture of agricultural 
implements. 
LOGANIACEAE 
Strychnine Family. 
Besides the following species there is in cultivation a species of 
Fagraea with long tubular, white, fragrant flowers. A single tree 
grows at the Maunwili Ranch on the windward side of Oahu. 
Strychnos nux-vomica L. 
The Nux-vomica or Strychnine Tree. 
The Strychnine Tree, which attains the height of forty feet, is 
a native of India, and is found throughout tropical India, being rare 
in Bengal but very common in the Madras Presidency and Tennas- 
serim. It can be found up to an altitude of 4000 feet. The leaves 
are three and one-half by two inches, ovate and five-nerved, are 
glabrous, and have short leaf stalks. The floral cymes are terminal, 
short stalked and bear many flowers; the fruit resembles very much 
a Chinese orange or Mandarin, being of the same color when ripe. 
It is one and one-half inches in diameter, and contains many white, 
