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XXIII. OELA STR ACEiE 
Capsule 3-angled, J in. diam., cells 3, opening down the middle. 
Seeds 3, half enveloped in a red, fleshy, outer coat or aril. 
Sutlej valley ; March-October. — N.W. India, ascending to 4000 ft., usually 
on hot, dry, rugged slopes. 
4. ELiEODENDRON. From the Greek elaia, an olive, and 
dendron, a tree, referring to the shape of the fruit and to its oily 
seeds. — S. Africa, Asia, America, Australia. 
* Elseodendron glaucum, Pers. ; FI. Br. Ind. i. 623. A tree. 
Leaves opposite, glabrous, hard, leathery, very variable in shape 
and size, ovate, orbicular or oblong, 2-4 x 1-2 \ in., crenate, 
sharply toothed or nearly entire ; stalks ^-1 in. Flowers yellow- 
brown, usually 2-sexual, in large, axillary cymes. Calyx 5-parted, 
lobes obtuse. Petals 5, oblong. Stamens 5, inserted under the 
margin of the disk, filaments recurved. Ovary conical, 3-lobed, 
half immersed in the disk, 3-celled ; style entire. Drupe ovoid, \ in. 
long, yellow-green ; stone 1- or 2-celled, cells 1-seeded. 
Throughout India, ascending to 6000 ft. ; February-June. 
XXIV. RHAMNACE^E 
Shrubs or small trees, usually erect, often spinous, tendril-bear- 
ing only in Helinus. Leaves simple, alternate or nearly opposite, 
entire or toothed, with 3-5 prominent, basal nerves or feather-veined; 
stipules small, soon falling off, spinous and persistent in Zizyphus. 
Flowers very small, yellow-green, regular, usually 2-sexual, in 
axillary clusters, cymes or panicles, rarely solitary, umbellate in 
Helinus. Calyx-tube cup-shaped, persistent, free or in Helinus 
adherent to the ovary ; limb 4- or 5-lobed, segments valvate, erect 
or spreading, triangular, acute, keeled on the inner surface, usually 
falling off after flowering. Petals 4 or 5, rarely none, inserted on 
the mouth of the calyx-tube or on the margin of the disk, smaller 
than the calyx-lobes, hood-like or the margins infolded. Stamens 
4 or 5, inserted with and opposite to the petals, more or less 
enclosed by them at least at first. Disk usually thick ; in Bham- 
nus thin, lining or filling up the calyx-tube ; in Helinus ring- 
shaped and lying on the top of the ovary. Ovary sessile, superior, 
except in Helinus , sometimes more or less immersed in the disk, 
2-4-celled ; style erect, simple, usually short, stigma terminal, 3- 
branched or 3-lobed. Fruit drupaceous, containing 1-4 one-seeded 
stones, the base, except in Helinus, enclosed in the persistent calyx- 
tube. — An Order inhabiting tropical and temperate regions. 
