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TES EEE I a Oe EESTI E ag EUN ERE IT eee en SN TETTE DERE ER ERN 
-. Phaleria.] CV. THYMELEJE. 39 
tapering at the base but distinctly was 6 to 8 in. long. Floret 
. heads axillary or lateral, nearly sessile. Perianth glabrous outside 
tube 11 jin. 1 the 
, the 
u to l4 in. long, lobes usually slightly ee inside, 
ispermum 
about 3 lines long. Involucre geo ruits not seen.— 
- elerod. — ny Muell. Fra agm 
Queen: Rockingham is partes comes very near to D. 
owers are still larger 
Orpver CVI. ELH AGNACEA. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or dicecious. Perianth tubular, ts but iter 
. sistent at the base and contracted above the ovary, the up e eec 
deciduous, 2- or 4-lobed, or in male flowers the perianth divide to the 
: ‘ 
Stamens equal to and alternate with the Ras base a Tee 
e pe- 
lined by the thin pericarp. Seed wi membranous or rather 
sta; album very thin; embryo straight, with a Een 
inferior radicle.—Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbin e or les 
covered wit urfy or silvery indumentum consisting of stellate or 
Sa RN scales. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers ee yellows or 
2 Order, chiefl er i hikas an, with a very few American, subit: or. 
aia species; the ant Australian genus has nearly the same area as he Order. 
1. ELZEAGNUS, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth 4-lobed. Stamens 4, inserted at 
the orifice of the tube. Style elongated, recurved at the top, with a 
lateral stigma. 
This, the principal genus of the Order, has several Asiatic or soe and one North 
American species ; the only ares species is one widely distributed over Ceylon 
E. India, and the Eastern Archipe 
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metines erect and middle-sized or with weak straggling stems, 
koaa except the upper surface of the leaves with the scurfy scales 
tes sey ovate ovate-lanceolate or elliptical, usually 
acuminate but sometimes obtuse, 2 to 4in. long or larger on 
branches. Flowers meme together in axillary spikes or clusters often 
. not exceeding the petioles, with the bracts all small and deciduous, but 
sometimes longer with 1 or 2 of the lower bracts leafy and persistent. 
Perianths shortly pedicellate, the lower persistent portion narrow at the 
time of flowering, scarcel above 1 line long, closed at the top round 
the style by a disk-like annular prominence, "the free part of the tube 
