. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 446 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
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 446 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 vailej^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 Bu
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