OLEACEJE. Lindley. The olive tribe of plants, :oniprising 12 Indian genera, viz. Olea, Liuociera, .igustrum, Syringa, Pachyderma, Myxopyrum, ;liondrospermum, Ornus, Jasminum, Nyetanthes, )smanthus, Schrebera. Oleacem occur in Nepal, he Himalaya and the Khassya mountains, the two 'eninsulaa, Ceylon, Java, and the Moluccas. In cost oil plants the oil is yielded by the seed, but this tribe the oil is contained in the pericarp. Jasminum grandiflorum Linn., all India.
J. revolutinn, Sims., ICI:ninon.
Nyctantlics arbor-tristis, Linn., all India.
Asmanthus fragrans, Lour., Himalaya.
Olca sativa,. Hof., Aleppo, Lebanon.
O. Gardnen, Tim, Ceylon.
O. fragrans, Thunb., Cochin-China, China, Japan. O. grandiflora, Wall., Nepal.
O. attenuata, Wall., Martaban, O. elavata, G. Don., China.
O. robusta, Wall., Sylhct.
O. glandulifera, Wall., Debra, Kamaon, Ceylon.
O. Europoa, Linn.
O. forruginoa, Roy/e, Bind.
O. dentate, Wall., Burma.
0. Itoxburghiana, Rom. and 5th., Oil oar mountains. O. diolea, Rocb., Chittagong.
O. aeuminata, Wall., Nepal.
O. myrtifolia Wall., N.E. Bengal. Linociom dichotoma, Wall., Coremaudel. L. ramiflora, Wall., Moluccas, L. intermedea, L. Matabarica, Wall.
L. macrophylla Wall., Sylhot. L. purpurea, Ceylon.
Ligustrum Japonicum, Thank, Nepal, Japan, L. compactum, Hook, L. microphyllum, Bedd.
L. Nopalonso, Wall.
L. robustum, hook.
L. vulgare, Linn.
L. braoteolatum, D. Don., Nepal. L. lucidum, Ail., China.
Schrcbera Swietenoides, all India. Fraxinus Chinensis, Bozb., China.
F. excelsior, .Linn.
F. floribunda, Wall.
F. Moorcroftiana, Ornus C. Don. Nepal. O. urophylla, O. Don., Khassya. Syringa Chinensis, Mad., China. S. Persica, Linn., Persia.
S. emodi, Wall.
S. vulgaris, Linn.
Pachyderma Javanica, Bt., Java. Myxopyrum nervosum, Bl., Java.
The olive tree of Europe grows easily in India. O. glandulifera, Wall., of the Central Province of Ceylon, grows at from 2000 to 4000 feet eleva tion, and on the mountains near Debra Doon and Kamaon. Olive-wood is imported from the Mediterranean countries into Britain. It is veined with dark grey, and resembles boxwood in tex ture, but is softer. The knotted and curled roots are made into embossed boxes. This is done by means of pressure in engraved moulds of metal. Dr. Wight describes Olea linocieroides, polygama, and robusta. The genus Olea seems opposed to great extremes of heat or cold, as Dr. Boyle had only seen species in sheltered valleys and at moderate elevations in the Himalaya,—Olea glan dulifem at Suhansudhara and the valley leading to Kuerkuli, as well as near Jurripani, and Olea ferruginca in the valleys of the Jumna and Sutlej. Olea acutninata extends from Karmen to Sylhet and Penang. Olea robusta is Roxburgh's Phillyrma robusta. Dr. Thomson says that near the Chenab, passing some farmhouses surrounded by fields, he entered a scattered wood of wild olive trees (Oleo, cuspidate) mixed with zizyphus and wild pomegranate. On the summit of a pass in the Outer Himalayas, which was not more than 6000 feet, ho found a beautiful gentian (G. kurru of Royle) and a yellow spinons astmgalus.— Thomson ; Cleg. ; Voigt ; Thine.; Royle ; Gamble.