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ELÆAGNEÆ, 373 
Ov. liberum tubo calycis omnino inclusum, pilis niveis 
hispidissimum l-loculare, l-ovulat. stipitat. vel basin versus 
solidum sterileque. Ovul. pendulum ab apice loculi, foramen 
conspicuum hilum prope. 
Has. Mergue: Jan. 9th, 1835. 
Nectandra decandra Roxb. 
ELZAGNEA, 
This order agrees with Olacinez in one remarkable point, 
that the calyx is analogous to an adherent calyx. 
In Elzagnus, this is carried so far that dissection is abso- 
lutely requisite to detect it, and is accompanied with a deve- 
lopment of a glandular disk, precisely similar to that of epi- 
gynous orders, The style too separates above its base. 
There can be no doubt but that the Perianth is truly calycine. 
The ovary is essential simple, it has one vascular facicle 
that is prolonged upwards into the style, and which cor- 
responds to the costa of ordinary leaves. 
The placental suture is distinguishable, but merely by a line 
of different tissue, for no furrow exists as ordinarily happens. 
The stigma is also essentially simple. 
z The ovulum has the ordinary structure, its raphal face 
appears to correspond to the placental line above noted as 
indeed it should. 
The stomata are very minute and are to be found only on 
the under surface. This is curious, one would have supposed 
. that some compensating process would have existed, owing 
to the great obstacles to free ingress and egress of air present- 
ed by the scales, but unless these have some influence, I can 
see none. 
3 These scales are maxima developments of facicled or stel- 
late hairs, and they return to this state on the upper surface. 
importance of these bodies is obvious from their general 
Occurrence in the order. 
- The stamina are evascular. 
