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ENUMERATION OF ^^Lauvacecs 



CXXX. EL^A&NACE^. 



1. EL^AGNUS, Linn. 



1. E. latifolia, Linn, (Schleclit. in DC. Prod. xiv. p. 610, cum srn. ; 

 Wight, Ic. t. 1856.)—^. conferta, Eoxb. F\. Ind. ; ScliL 1. c. p. 612. E, 

 arborea, Eoxb. 1. c. ; Schl. I.e. p. 611. E.femiginea, Ach. Eich,; 

 Schl. 1. c. p. 610. E. WallicJiiana, Schl. L c. p. 612. E.parvifoUa, 

 Eoxb. ; Schl. 1. c. E. Tluoaitesii, Schl. 1. c. p. 611. E. Kologa, Schl. 

 !• C- — Foliis snbtus argenteo-leprosis, squamis ferrugineis nullis vel 

 paucissimis interraixtis.— c.p. 2263. Foliis firmioribus, saspius majori- 

 Dus, subtus squamis argenteis ferrugineisque intermixtis leprosis \fioTi- 

 bus parum brevioribus.— c.p. 2264, 83. Foliis firmis, s^pius basi ro- 

 tundatis, subtus ferrugineo-leprosis. — c.p. 2724 



Hab. Very common up to an elevation of 5000 feet. 



I believe we have but one species of this geuus indigenous to Ceylon, but it is an 

 extremely vaiiable plant. "When occurring in the hotter parts of the island the leaves 

 are more membranaceous, and have their leprous scales nearly all white ; higher up, 

 on the hills, the leaves are usually larger and firmer, and there is a greater intermix- 

 ture of ferruginous scales, and sometimes the scales are all ferruginous. 



CXXXI. DATISCACE^. 



1. TETEAMELES, E. Br. 



c.}' ,^- "^^i^o'-a. B. Br. in PL Jav. Ear. p. 19. t. 17.— 5. Sorsfieldii 

 bteud. jNomeuc. p. 171.— c.p. 3113. 



Hab. Ambagfamowa DistricL at no trrpaf pl^^vniin-n • nnf. pnmmon. 



CXXXIL LAUEACE^. 



1. CIWITAMOMUM, Burm. 



^* ^^^yla^icum, Breyn. (N. ab E. System. Laiirln. p. 45, cum 

 syn. ; Wight, Ic. tt. 128, 129, 134.)— (7. Capparu, Coronde; Blume; 

 JN. ab E. 1. c. p. 665, cum. syn.—c.p. 2283, 2284. 



Var. ^. »2wZ^(^ort^w.— C.W2^?fy?ora«a, Wight, Ic.tt. 126,131. C. rfw- 

 Uum, JN. ab E. 1. c. p. 41 ; Wight, t. 135. C.perpetiio-fiorens, Wight, 

 Ic^. 141. C. villosum, Wight, Ic. t. 127.— c.p. 37, 2282. 



Yar. y. ovalifolium.—a ovalifolium, Wight, Ic. t. 125.— c.p. 263, 

 (317. 628.) ^ ^ J > ^ y 



Hab. Pretty generally distributed in forests up to an elevation of 



3000 



3000 



V ar. y. At an elevation of 4000 to 8000 feet. 



"Without the opportunity, which I have had, of. seeing numerous examples of this 

 very variable tree, I should scarcely have ventured to unite the above- enumerated 

 varieties under one specitic name, so unhke one another are the extreme forms of each ; 



but in a large series of specimens it is frequently difficult, or even impossible, to de- 

 termine to Whirh Varipfw frt vn^av ee^rv^o. ^f +U«™ «« :« + ««™„,i:«*« «-/. ^Va-tj in ohfWUC.iCVt 



produce of what I consider a cidtivated or 



selected form of var. a, and the trees of this form have usually large leaves of some 



