Eleagnus. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 459 
CHLORA NTHUS. Schreb. Gen. 1730.* 
Calyx none. — Corol, a three-lobed, unilateral autheriferous petal 
onthe outside of the pistillum. Germ semi-superum oneeseeded; 
attachment of the ovulum superior. Drupe one-seeded, 
„C inconspicuus, Linn. Spec. Plant. ed. Willd. i. 688. 
.. Tcheu-lan, of the Chinese. 
From Canton it has been received into the Botanic Garden at 
Calcutta, where it grows freely to be a small upright shrub, with 
many straight sub-simple smooth branches, of about two feet in 
height, 7 with oblong opposite serrulate smooth leaves. Flowering time | 
in Bengal. the ging season, It has not yet ripened its seeds there. - 
! ELEAGNUS. Schreb. Gen. N. 213. 
Corol none. Calyx gibbous, border four-parted. Germ D 
led, one-seeded ; attachment of the ovulum inferior. Drupe inferior, 
one-seeded. Embryo erect, without perisperm. 
1. E. triflora, R 
. Shrubby, Sure armed.. Leaves oblong, obtuse, scaly. Flow- 
ers axillary, three-fold, peduncled. 
Eleagnus foliis oblongis acuminatis. macotatts; Burm. Zeyl. p. 92. 
t. 39. f. 1. 
A.natixe of Sumatra, from thence introduced into the Botanic 
Garden i in 1804, where it blossoms in December. Seeds ripen three 
or four months afterwards. 
| Stems and branches of considerable size, and great extent, climb- 
ing; bark of the ligneous parts a beautiful dark purplish colour, and 
smooth. The short lateral branchlets which issue from the young 
Climbing shoots are more or less recurvate and answer the end of 
tendrils; when old, they become stout thorns. Bark of the tender 
» Nigrina, Thunb. Creodus, Loureir.—N- We 
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