374 ELJEAGNEA. 
And so is the perianth except in the axis of the lacinia. 
The greater permanence of the styles or stigmata is in 
Addition remarkable from its being opposed to that which 
usually occurs. The parts next the axis being those most 
developed, and one would in reasoning a priori, imagine that 
the upper part of an organ which must bea continuation 
of the lower part, could not exist independently of this. 
ELZAGNUS. 
l. Eleagnus fasciculatus, Pl. DXXXIX. Fig. II. 
Fruticosa inermis, fol. lanceolatis. mucronato-acuminatis 
utrinque sed subtus dense lepidotis, subrepandis, integris 
ramulisque novellis argenteo-lepidotis. 
Fructibus in pedicellis lepidotis zquantibus varie numero 
aggregatis in axillis foliorum, vere racemosis, pedunculo bre- 
vissimo tri-binati-globosis, apice depressis et quasi unbilicatis, 
sinu conum brevem exserente, rubris, lepidotis. 
Pericarp. calycis basin ampliato baccato adhzrente inclusum, 
ebovato-turbinatum utrinque conicum, cono supero stylum 
affingente, late sulcata lignea. Endocarpio tenuissimo solu- 
bili imo partio cum semine separant. 1-loculare, l-spermum- 
Semen erectum fere globosum ex albuminosum obsolite 
sulcatum. Tegumentum unicum tenue e tegmentis 2 con- 
flatis, quorum exterius membranaceum, tenuissimum, cellulis 
sinuosis, interius cellulosum. 
- Raphe linearis nec prominula. 
Chalaza puncta apiculis brunnea. 
Radicula ovata brevissima crassa, infera ad hilum latus. 
, Cotyledones raphe parallele carnose, plano-convex® fere 
hemispherice, basi emarginate. 
Plumula diphylla subviridis. 
Has. Assam Burrumpootur: April 5th, 1836. - 
. Micropyle inconspicua, e foveola depressa laterali. e coste 
vel subcompressione orto caule distinguenda, raphe simplex» 
