Elceagnus. TEXRANftiuA monoctVnia. 4fi9 



CHLORANTFIUS. Schreb. Gen. 1730* 



Calyx none. Corol, a three-lobed, unilateral anllierilerous jjs^a^ 

 on the outside of the pistilhim. Germ semi-supeiuni one-seededj 

 attachment of the ovuUim superior. Drupe one-seeded. 



C. inco)isp'icuus, Linn. Spec. Plant, ed. fVilld. i. G88. 



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. 



EL^AG^US. Schreb. Gen. N. 213. 

 Corol none. Cali/x gibbous, border four-parted. Germ one-cel- 

 led, one-seeded ; attachment of the ovulum inferior. Drupe inferior, 

 one-seeded. Embryo erect, without perisperm. 



1 . E. trijiora, R. 



Shrubby, scandent, armed. Leaves oblong, obtuse, scaly. Flow- 

 ers axillary, three-fold, peduncled. 



EliEagnus foliis oblongis acuminatis maculatis, Burm. Zeyl.p-9^' 



t. 39/. 1. 



A native of Sumatra, from thence introduced into the Botanic 

 Garden in 1804, where it blossoms in December. Seeds ripen three 

 or four months afterwards. 



Stems and branches of considerable size, and great extent, cUmb- 

 in..; bark of the ligneous parts a beautiful dark purplish colour, and 

 smooth The short lateral branchlets which issue from the young 

 climbing shoots are more or less recurvate and answer tl^ end ot 

 tendrils ; when old, they become stout thorns. Bark of the tender 



• A jj-rina, Thunb. Creodus, Loureir — N- VV- 

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