4Q0 TETliANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ElcSUgllUS. 



part most beautifully clothed vith 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.— S/Z/J^/es wow. ^-Flowers axillary, three- 

 fold, small, white. — Peduncles longer than the corols, one- flower- 

 ed. — Ca/i/x with a short, four sided tube; and border of four cordate 

 segments, on the outside a little scaly ; on the inside smooth.— K/a- 

 7nents none. Anthers foin , sessile in the mouth of the tube of the 

 calyx. — Germ superior, oblong, embraced by the contracted bottom 

 of the calyx, one-celled, one-seeded. St)/le as long as the calyx. — 

 Stigma oblong, glandular, oblique.— Berry oblong, succulent, when 

 ripe pale oraiige colour, pulp soft, of rather a pleasant astringent 

 laste, and not acid like E. conftrla ; owe-seeded.— Seed sub-clavate. 

 Integuments t\\o; exterior eight-ribbed, soft, and lined with much 

 wool ; inner membranaceous. — Verisperm none.— Embri/o erect. 

 Cotijledons conform to the seed, amygdaline. Plumida two-lobed. 

 Radicle oval, inferior. 



2. E. conferfa, R. 



Shrubby, scanJent. Leaves alternate, oblong-pointed, covered 

 ■with silver-coloured scales underneath. Flowers axillary, crowded, 

 ehort-peduncled. 



Beng. Guara. 



This 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 un- 

 derneath, which gives tbem a bright colour; from three to four inches 

 long, and from one and half to two broad. — Petioles short, scaly. — 



♦ Also Nepala, Sirinagur, Sirmore— N. W. 



