Elcragnns. tetrandria monogynia. 439 



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, with oblong opposite serrulate smooth leaves. 

 Flowering time in Bengal the rainy season. It has not yet 

 ripened its seeds there. 



ELM AGNUS. 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. 



1. E. trijlora. R. 



Shrubby, scandont, armed. Leaves oblong, obtuse, scaly. 

 Flowers axillary, three fold, peduncled. 



Elteagnus foliis oblongis acuminatis maculatis. Burm. 

 Zeyl.p. 92. t. 39*/. 1. 



A native of Sumatra, from thence introduced into the Bo- 

 tanic garden in 1804, where it blossoms in December. Seeds 

 ripen three or four months afterwards. 



Stems and bra?iches of considerable size, and great extent, 

 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 numerous ferruginous, stellate scales. Leaves 

 alternate, short-petioled, oblong, entire, obtuse, above smooth ; 

 underneath ornamental with numerous stellate, ferruginous 

 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- 

 flowered. Calyx with a short, four-sided tube ; and border 



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