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OLEA capensis. 3B Y 
Blunt-leaved Cape Olive. 
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. — 
Nat. ord. JASMINER. | Jussieu gen. 105. ‘Diw. i. Fructus baccatus. : 
OLEINE, Brown prod.1:522. 0) 5 
OLEA. Cor. monopetala (rard nulla), laciniis ovatis.. Drupa baccata. 
Arbores, ramulis superné compressis. Folia opposita, simplicia integra v. 
serrata. Racemi sepivs errno, Brown Bo 1, 523; go 
OBS. PHILLYREAM ab OLEA diversam esse tantummodd texturA pu- 
taminis jamdudum statuit cel. Salisburius in prod. 18; minis rect® simul ad- 
jiciens LigustRuM, quod ab illis fructi yeré baccato longids recedit quam 
CHIONANTHUS, figura laciniarum corollz soliim distinguenda. Brown 1. c. 
O. capensis, foliis ellipticis obtusis rigidis planis, floribus paniculatis. Willd. 
-enum. 1.13; (in nota ad calcem pag.) _ : 
Olea capensis. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1.11. Berg. cap. 1. Thunb. prod. 2. 
_ Olea capensis; %; coriacea. Hort. Kew.1. 13. ed. 2.1.21. . Willd. sp. pl. 
1.45. Vahl enum. 1. 41; (exclusé undique varietate 8. undulata, que 
species distincta, ) ug oat oF sidgotads. 
ee waive sempervirens, folio crasso subrotundo. ‘Dill. elth. 193. 
t. 160. f. . ‘ ; 
' Arbuscula est non multtm ramosa, caudice vix digitum minorem post 
10-11 annos crasso, frequentibus nodis parvis, a ramulis abscedentibus for- 
matis, predito, recto, cortice subhirsuto, ex Susco nigricante, vestito, punc- 
tis lineisque cinereis distincto, sesquicubitalem, post tot annos, altitudinem 
(unde frutex potits quam arbor videtur) non multum superans, in cujus 
ramis dodrantalibus et pedalibus folia conjugata, decussatim sibi respondentia, 
nascuntur, oblongo-rotunda, in extremitate subindé sinuata, plerimque vero 
sint, illo carente, densa et rigida, medio concava, nunc dilutits nunc satura- 
tits virentia, subtis semper pallidiora, glabra venis levidensibus obliquis, in- 
ferné minis, qudm superne, conspicuis exarata, é quorum alis et in ramorum 
fastigro Junio et Julio mensibus nascuntur flores racematim digesti, nunc ra- 
riores nunc adeo numerosi, ut ab eorum onere racemus pendeat, monopetali 
breves et vix tubulosi, in quatuor equalia segmenta divisi, duobus seniper, 
LIGUSTRI instar, staminibus, apice didymo croceo terminatis, donati, albi, 
odorem florum Ligustri vulgaris spirantes. Calyx parvus in quatuor lacinias 
exiguas dividitur. Dillen. loc. cit. 
Our plant belongs to the variety («) coriacea of the Orga 
capensis of the Species Plantarum of Willdenow; a variety 
which has been since separated by the same author, in his 
Enumeratio, from (8) wndulata, as a distinct species. 
Undulata has been figured and described in the Hortus 
Schoenbrunnensis of Jacquin. 
