Gony stylus] cxxx. THYMEL^ACE^E. (J. I). Hooker.) 201 



MALACCA, Malngay (Keio Distrib. 1441). 



A tree, branches woody with black wrinkled bark, the young ones and those of 

 the inflorescence finely grey-pubescent. Leaves 1^-2 in. diam., quite glabrous and 

 rather shining above, faintly pubescent on the stout midrib beneath, dark brown 

 when dry ; nerves very numerous, parallel and prominent beneath ; petiole \ in. 

 Inflorescence apparently forming a narrow erect woody panicle 4-6 in. long with 

 short stout branches. Fruit (unripe) smooth, seated on the perianth, the lobes of 

 which are revolute; valves with walls | in. thick, formed of transverse woody fibres ; 

 pedicel - in. long. Seeds (quite unripe) |- in. long, semicircular, quite flat. 

 This differs from the Javan G. Miquelianus, Teijsm. & Binn. (in Bot. Zeit. 1862, 

 265, Miquel Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. i. 132, f. 4), in the much smaller flower and fruit. 

 G. bancanus again has flowers very much smaller than in G. Maingayi. For the 

 reference of this genus to Tiliacea see Baillon, Hist. PI. vi. 122, and Adansonia, xi. 

 327. 



ORDER CXXXI. E^JEAGNACEJS. 



Shrubs or trees, with copious silvery or brown scales. Leaves alternate 

 or opposite, quite entire, exstipulate. Floivers small, regular, 1-2-sexual, iu 

 axillary fascicles or cymes, white or yellow. Perianth in the 2-sexual and 

 female fl. tubular, 2-6-clef t, in the'male of Hippophae of 2 membranous sepals. 

 Stamens adnate to the perianth-tube, iu the male fl. twice as many as the 

 lobes, in the 2-sexual as many as the lobes and opposite them. Ovary free, 

 1-celled ; style filiforn, stigma lateral; ovule 1, basal, erect, anatropous. 

 Fruit indehiscent, enclosed in the perianth-tube. Seed ascending, albumen 

 or scanty; embryo straight, axile, cotyledons thick, radicle inferior. 

 Genera 3, species 16, North Temp, and Tropical regions. 



Perianth 4-fid 1. ELJEAGNUS. 



Perianth of (? 2-partite, membranous, of $ 2-fid 2. HIPPOPHAE. 



1. EXiJEAGNUS, Linn. 



Perianth-tube oblong or globose, constricted above the ovary ; limb val- 

 vately 4-cleft, deciduous. Stamens 4, on the mouth of the corolla. Style 

 linear, included, stigma lateral. Species about 12. 



1. E. hortensis, M. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. ii. 112 ; arboreous, branches 

 dark brown, leaves deciduous ovate-oblong or linear-oblong silvery beneath, 

 flowers 1-3-nate, fruit ellipsoid-oblong, endocarp thick bony. Schlecht. in 

 DC. Prodr. xiv. 609; Boiss. FL Orient, iv. .1056; Brand. For. 'FL 389. 

 E. angustifolia, Linn. ; Reichb. Ic. FL G-erm. xi. t. 549 ; Sibth. FL Grcec. 

 t. 152 ; Bot. Beg. t. 1156. E. orientalis, Linn. Mant. 41 ; Pall. Fl. Ross. 

 i. 11, t. 5. E. Moorcroftii, Wall. Cat. 4031 ; Schlecht. in DC. I. c. 610. 



WESTERN TIBET, alt. 5-10,500 ft., Moorcroft, Thomson, &p. WESTERN HIMA- 

 LAYA, alt. 6-7000 ft., Edgeiuorth. DiSTEiB. Westwards to Spain, Western and Central 

 Asia to China. 



A tree, 12-30 ft. high, often spinous, young silvery. Leaves 1-3 in., obtuse, 

 nerves faint; petiole in. Flowers pedicelled, yellow, fragrant. Perianth ^-\ in. 

 long, silvery, campanulate above, teeth triangular-ovate. Style glabrous. Fruit f in. 

 long, red, dry or fleshy. 



2. E. umbellata, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 66, t. 14 ; shrubby, leaves deci- 

 duous oblong-lanceolate silvery beneath, flowers clustered, fruit small 

 ellipsoid and contracted at both ends or subglobose, endocarp coriaceous 

 ribbed woolly within. Schlecht. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 614; Maximov. Diagn. 

 Dec. viii. 560; Brand. For. Fl. 391; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 318. E. 



