440 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ElfCUgnUS. 



of four cordate segments, on the outside a little scaly ; on the 

 inside smooth. Filaments none. Anthers four, sessile in the 

 mouth of the tube of the calyx. Germ superior, oblong, em- 

 braced by the contracted bottom of* the calyx, one-celled, 

 one-seeded. Style as long- as the calyx. 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- 

 clavate. Integuments two, exterior eight ribbed, soft, and 

 lined with much wool ; inner membranaceous. Per/sperm 

 none. Embryo erect. Cotyledons conform to the seed, amyg- 

 daline. Plumula two-lobed. Radicle oval, inferior. 



2. E. conferta. R. 



Shrubby, scandent. Leaves alternate, oblong-pointed, co- 

 vered with silver-coloured scales underneath. Flowers axil- 

 lary, crowded, short-peduncled. 



Bencj. Guara. 



Tin's is a very large and ramous, scandent shrub; a native 

 of the mountains near Silhet, in Bengal. Flowering time, the 

 cold season. Seed ripe in March. 



Young shoots covered with innumerable rust-coloured scales. 

 Leaves alternate, short-petioled, generally erect, oblong- 

 pointed, entire, with innumerable small silver coloured scales, 

 particularly underneath, which gives them a bright colour ; 

 from three to four inches long-, and from one and half to two 

 broad. Petioles short, scaly. Peduncles axillary, crowded, 

 short. Flowers small, straw-coloured. Calyx ; tube some- 

 what gibbous, four-sided ; outside scaly ; border of four cor- 

 date segments ; its mouth marked on the inside with four 

 curved lines, on their pointed junctures the filaments sit. 

 Style hairy. Drupes oblong, succulent, when ripe red. 



Oto. The calyx of my plant cannot be said to be placed on 

 the germ ; it has, as it were a lower tube which envelopes the 

 germ only, this part grows with the fruit, and finally becomes 

 the pulpy part thereof as in the Nyctagineae of Jussieu. 



