280 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIOXS. 



** Inflorescence terminal, glalrous. 

 II. TERM--TNALTP, Kz. Kliiikyeu Ilills. 



Leaves entire, retuse. 



DAPHNALES. 



Flowers usually hermaphrodite. Perianth green or coloured, regular or irregular, 

 often tubular. Orari/ 1- rarely 2-celled, superior. Stigma 1. Onde usually solitary, 

 pendulous or sub-erect. Albumen none, rarely scanty. Embryo straight. 



Order EL^AGNE^. 



Flowers regular, licrruaphrodite, sometimes unisexual by abortion, rarely dioecious. 

 Perianth inferior, usually forming a 2-4-lobed bell, narrowed or contracted into a 

 shorter or longer tube. Disk filling the periimtli-tube, and variously prominent along 

 its margin, rarely consisting of 8 glands. Stamens rarely free, usually adnate to the 

 periantli, as many, or twice as many, as perianth-lobes. Antliers 2-celled, the cells 

 dehiscing longitudinally by a double slit. Ocarij free, inclosed in the perianth-tube, 

 which enlarges in fruit, 1 -celled with a .solitary erect ovule. Sti/Ie simple, elongate. 

 Fruit inclosed in the dry or more usually fleshy or sappy enlarged perianth-tube, 

 drupaceous, the spurious pericarp hoiny or chartaccous, smooth or woolly or scaly 

 within. Einhryo erect, surrounded with a very thin albumen with an inferior radicle, 

 the cotyledons narrow Shrubs or trees, often scandent, sometimes spiny, all parts 

 more or less covered with minute silvery or coppery scales. Stipules none. Leaves 

 simple, alternate, or rarely opposite. Flowers solitary or clustered, sessile or pediceUed, 

 axillary. 



El.i:agnus, Linnccus. 



Flowers hermaphrodite or male by abortion. Perianth 4- rarely 5-8-lobcd, the 

 limb valvate, and at the base contracted into a tube. Disk glandular. Stamens 

 usually 4. Ocary 1 -celled, with a single erect ovule. Sti/le simple, subulate, .some- 

 what recurved and stigmatic along the one side of the apes. Fruit a di'upe, tho 

 putameu bonj', and 1 -seeded. 



E. ARBORE.i, lioxb. E.T. Tree forests of Ava. Pegu. Tenasserim. 



Men-"u Kamorta and Isankowry. 



Drupes 11 inch long, the putamen sulcatc, with rounded ribs. 

 E. coNFEKTA, Koxb. E.S.S. Chittagong. 



Drupes 4-6 lines long, the putamen slightly sulcate ribbed. 



Mason remarks : " This sour red plum, which grows on a magnificent creeper, 

 makes excellent tarts and jellies, and is a great favourite with the natives. It grows 

 wild in many of our jungles, but is nowhere very abundant. It is often seen in 

 cultivation among the Burmese, and I have met wdth it in some of the Eed Karen 

 villages." 



Order THYilEL^ACEiE. 



Flowers usually hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual. Perianth tubular, funnel- or 

 bell-shaped, naked at the throat, or furnished with scales or glands, 4-5-lobcd, 

 imbricate, or rarely valvate. Hypogynous ylands minute, 4-8, somewhat fleshy, or 

 filiform, inserted around the ovary, either tree or united in an entire or toothed ring 

 or cup, rarely wanting. Fertile stamens usually as many, or twice as many, as 

 perianth-lobes, rarely only 2, inserted on the throat or tube in a single or double 

 series, and opposite to the lobes, or the lower ones alternating with them. Anthers 

 2-celled, the cells dehi.scing usually inwardly by 2 longitudinal slits. Ocary free, 

 1- or rarely 2-cellcd, with 1 (or rarely 2 or 3 pendulous) ovule. Fruit iudehiscent 

 and nut-like, drupaceous or berry-like, or rarely a 2-valved capsule. Seed pendulous, 

 the pericarp thin or crustaccous, rarely fibrous-woody. Albumen none, or rarely 



