Tab. 7341. 

 ELM AGNUS multiflora. 



Native of Japan, 



Nat. Ord. Ei^eagnacejE. 

 Genus EL^A6NUS,imn. ; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 204.) 



ExiEAGNUs multiflora ; fruticosa, ramulis fuscis novellis lepidotis, foliis 

 breviter petiolatis ovato- v. obovato-oblongis lanceolatisve obtusis, supra 

 viridibus stellulatim puberulis, subtus floribusque dense argenteo-lepi- 

 dotis rnbro-fusco punctulatis, floribus solitariis fasciculatisve Baspius 

 longe pedicellatis pallide stramineis, perlanthio basi (ovarium tegente) 

 anguste ellipsoideo, dein constricto breviter columnari, demum in tubura 

 anguste campanulatum dilatato, lobis late ovatis subacutis, stylo apice 

 recurvo uno latere late stigmatifero, fructibus aurantiaco-rubris oblongis 

 utrinque rotnndatis sarcocarpio carnoso endocarpio sulcato. 



E. multiflora, Thumb. Fl. Jap. p. 66. Schleckt. in DO. Prodr. vol. xiv. 

 p. 614. 



E. longipes, A. Gray, in Mem. Am. Acad. N.8. vol. vi. (1858-9) p. 405. 

 Miquel Prolus. Fl. Jap. 139. Maxim. Mel. Biol. Pars viii. p. 559, 560, 

 and in Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. vol. xv. (1871 ) p. 377. Franch. & Savat 

 Enum. PI. Jap. vol. i.-p. 408. Masters in Gard. Ghron. (1873) p. 1015, f. 

 206. Belg. Sortie. (1883) t. xvi. Lavalle, Arbor. Segrez. p. 189, & Ic. 

 Sel. p. 9, t. iv. Garden & Forest (1888) p. 499. 



E. edulis, Siebold in Rev. Eortic. (1869) p. 300, and (1876) p. 18. 

 E. rotundifolia, Gagn. in Rev. Hortic. (1870-1) p. 540. 

 E. crispa, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 66. 



In no genus of shrubby flowering plants are the species 

 more difficult of definition by characters of habit and 

 foliage than are those of Elseagnus. Asa Gray, when 

 determining the Japanese collection of Perry's expedition, 

 instituted E. longipes, to contain Thunberg's multiflora and 

 crispa. An unfortunate name, because the pedicels are 

 long only in one form of the plant, on which account and 

 in deference to the priority of Thunberg's name, I 

 have reverted to the name of multiflora. According 

 to Maximovicz, whose knowledge of Japanese plants, 

 derived from lengthened botanical explorations in the 

 Archipelago, was unrivalled, there are four principal forms 

 of E. longipes, namely, — a hortensis ; unarmed, with elliptic 

 leaves, very long pedicels, and large edible fruit ; fi ovata,, 



February 1st, 1894. 



