10. Chionanthus ramiflorus Roxburgh (1820: 106) .

≡ Linociera ramiflora (Roxb.) Wall. ex Don (1837: 52) . De Candolle (1844: 297), Merrill (1923: 304), Kerr (1939: 413), Kobuski (1940: 334), Chia (1955: 351, Fig. 13, 16, 17), Li (1963: 765, Fig. 307), Backer & Bakhuizen van den Brink (1965: 214), Pai (1986: 628, Fig. 178(4–6)), Miao (1992: 114), Ho (2003: 884, Fig. 7563), Kress et al. (2003: 319), Ly (2003: 1169).

TYPE: — INDONESIA. Moluccas [The Maluku Islands]: cult. Hort. Bot. Calcutta, Roxburgh in Wallich 2824b (holotype: K-W, possibly K000978769). (Fig. 5)

= Linociera macrophylla Wall. ex Don (1837: 53) . De Candolle (1844: 297), Clarke (1882: 610), Gamble (1923: 795), Gagnepain (1933: 1068), Kanjilal et al. (1939: 236), Merrill & Chun (1940: 171), Kress et al. (2003: 319). ≡ Chionanthus macrophyllus (Wall. ex G.Don) Blume (1851: 317) . Kurz (1877: 159), Nair & Janardhanan (1981: 331). TYPE: — BANGLADESH. Silhet [Sylhet], 1831, N. Wallich 2826 (holotype: K-W; isotypes: BM: BM000997619 photo!, BM000997620 photo!, BM000997621 photo!; BR; E; P: P00640722; M; NY: 00297262 photo!; S: S09-35927 photo!, S09-35929 photo!).

= Olea attenuata Wall. ex Don (1837: 48) . De Candolle (1844: 286). ≡ Linociera macrophylla var. attenuata (Wall. ex G.Don) Clarke (1882: 611) . Craib (1912: 128), Gagnepain (1933: 1068), Kerr (1939: 413). TYPE: — MYANMAR. Banks of the river Martaban, 1831, N. Wallich 2839 (holotype: K-W: K001118004 photo!; isotype: P: P00640723 photo!).

Extensive synonymy for this species is provided by Panigrahi (1985), Green (2003) and Kiew (1998).

Literature: — Wight (1843: t. 734), Miquel (1856: 551), Bentham & Mueller (1869: 301), Kiew (1979: 274, 1980: 388, 1981: 150, 1989: 289, Fig. 1, 1998: 473, 2002: 155, 2015: 291), Panigrahi (1985: 53), Miao & Chang (1987: 18), Corner (1988: 601, Plate 193), Chang et al. (1996: 293), Coode et al. (1996: 248), Yang & Lu (1998: 128), Green (2000b: 283, Fig. 14, 2003: 260), Kessler et al. (2002: 101), Kress et al. (2003: 317), Wei (2003: 420, Fig. 223), Soejarto et al. (2004: 435), Gardner et al. (2007: 255, 2018: 1702), Newman et al. (2007: 248), Francisco-Ortega et al. (2010: 339), Wen & Fang (2011: 781), Xu & Xia (2011: 130), Toyama et al. (2013a: 101, 2013b: 191), Cho et al. (2016: 141), Jin et al. (2016: 160), Tagane et al. (2017: 483, Fig. 476).

Etymology: —The specific epithet “ ramiflorus ” means “branch-flowered” and apparently refers to the cauliflorous inflorescences described in the protologue (Roxburgh 1820).

Vernacular names: —Vietnamese: Hổ bì (in the North), Tráng lá to, lý lãm hoa cành (in the South).