Eleagnus. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, -_ 439. 
_Tcheu-lan, of the Chinese. ie 
_From,Canton it lias-been received. into the Tite ‘garden, 
at Calcutta, where it grows.freely to bea small upright shrab, 
with many straight sub-simple smooth branches, of about two 
feet, in height, with oblong opposite serrulate smooth leaves, 
Flowering time, in Bengal the rainy season. It has not yet 
ripened its seeds there, | ee 
ELZEAGNUS. Schreb. gen. N. 213. 
Corol none,. Calyx gibbous, border four-parted... Germ 
one-celled, one-seeded ; attachment of the ovulum inferior. 
Drupe inferior, one-seeded. Embryo erect, without peris- 
perm * 
5 Eg, iviflara, R. 
Shrubby, scandent, armed. Leaves oblong, o obtuse, scaly, 
Flowers axillary, three-fold, peduncled. Re 
_Eleagnus foliis oblongis: acuminatis maculatis, Burm. 
Zeyl. ps 2.8. Bf Aes 
_ A native of Sumatra, from. thence introduced into the He. 
tanie garden in 1804, where it blossoms in December. Seeds 
ripen three or four months afterwards, 
Stems and branches of considerable size, and pe part 9 
climbing., Bark of the ligneous parts a beautiful dark pur- 
plish colour, and smooth, The short lateral branchlets which. 
issue from the young climbing shoots are more or less recur-_ 
vate and answer the end of tendrils; when old, they become — 
stout thorns, Bark of the tender part most beautifully 
clothed with ppc tamcioant stellate. scales, Le 
alternate, short-petiole 
three-fold, small, ser ] Pedunclés Geaerl than the Ri one- 
flowered. . Calyx, with a short, four-sided 1 tube ; and. poder 
BbA 
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