405 "US STETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Eleagnus. 
part most beautifully clothed with numerous ferruginous, stellate 
scales.— Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oblong, entire, obtuse, 
above smooth ; underneath ornamented with numerous stellate, fer- 
ruginous and silver-coloured scales ; from two to three inches long, 
and from one to two broad.— Stipules none.— Flowers axillary, three: 
fold, small, white-—Peduncles longer than the corols, one-flower- 
nc — Calyx with a short, four-sided tube ; and border of four: cordate 
segments, on the outside a little scaly; on the inside smiooth.— F4 la- 
ments none. ` Anthers four, sessile in the mouth of thé tube of the 
calyx.— Germ superior, oblong, embraced by the contracted bottom 
of the calyx, one-celled, one-seeded. -Style as long as the. culyx.— 
Stigma oblong, glandular, oblique.— Berry oblong, succulent; when 
ripe pale orange colour, pulp soft, of rather a pleasant astringent 
taste, and not acid like E. conferta ; one-seeded,—Seed sub-clayate. 
Integuments two; exterior eight-ribbed, soft, and lined with, mach 
wool; inner membranaceons .—Perisperm none. — Embryo erect. 
Cotijledons conform to the seed, sit ere Plumula two-lobed. ' 
Radicle oval, inferior. andi 3: 
2. E. conferta, R. 
'"Shrubby, scandent. ^ Leaces alternate, oblong-pointed, covered 
with silver-coloured scales underneath. Flowers axillary, crowded, 
short-peduncled. ee qut ; 
Beng. Guara. 
This is a very large and ramous, scandent shrub; a » native | of | the | 
mountains near Silhet, in Bengal. nf Flowering time, the cold season 
Seed ripe in March., x 
Young shoots. covered with” innumerable psi colant lite 
Leaves alternate, ‘short-petioled, generally erect,  oblong-pointed, 
entire, with innumerable small silver coloured scales, particularly uies,- 
derneath, which gives them a bright colour; from three to four inches 
long, and from one and half to two broad — Petioles sioe scaly-— 
e Also nepus Sirinagur, Sirmore—N- we H =i 
