Wikstrcemia.] LXIII. THYMELACEvE. 387 



Lagetta lintearia, Lamarck ; Bot. Mag. t. 4502, the Jamaica Lace-Bark, is a 

 middle-sized tree, with ovate leaves and white flowers in loose terminal spikes. 

 The inner bark consists of numerous distinct (annual) layers of finely reticulate 

 fibre, made into ropes, whips, paper, lace, and all kinds of wearing apparel. 



Under this Order is generally classed Aquilaria Agallocha, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 

 422, and Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi. 199 ; Hook. Ic. t. 6 ; Royle 111. p. 171, t. 36, a 

 large tree, with alternate leaves and decandrous, bisexual flowers, the stamens 

 alternating with short scales placed in the mouth of the perianth, which yields 

 a great portion of the famous Aloes or Eagle-wood, used as incense and to make 

 ornaments and rosary beads. Mountains east of Bengal. 



Order LXIV. ELJEAGNE^j. 



Trees or shrubs, more or less lepidote, with alternate exstipulate en- 

 tire leaves. Flowers usually hermaphrodite, or unisexual in Hippopliae, 

 regular. Perianth inferior, gamophyllous, tubular, with a 4-lobed limb, 

 valvate in aestivation, or dimorphic in Hippopliae (of male fl. diphyllous, 

 of female fl. tubular). Stamens usually 4, epiphyllous, alternate with 

 the perianth - lobes ; 4, with subsessile anthers, between the 2 perianth 

 leaves in Hippopliae. Ovary free, 1 -celled, with a solitary erect ovule, 

 closely invested by the persistent accrescent base of the perianth-tube ; 

 style simple, laterally stigmatose. Fruit indehiscent, enclosed within 

 the at length succulent perianth-base ; albumen thin ; radicle inferior. 

 Royle 111. 322. 



Flowers unisexual, dioicous ; perianth of male fl. 2-leaved . 1. Hippophae. 

 Flowers bisexual ; perianth tubular, 4-cleft .... 2. EljEAGNus. 



1. HIPPOPHAE, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees, often spinescent, with alternate narrow leaves and 

 precocious flowers. Male flowers sessile, in the axil of deciduous bracts. 

 Perianth of 2 opposite round or oblong leaves. Stamens 4. Female 

 flowers axillary, solitary, pedicellate. Perianth tubular, minutely bifid at 

 the mouth. 



Under side of leaves white, velvety, with a dense tomentum of 



short stellate hairs 1. H. salicifolia. 



Under side of leaves densely clothed with white or rust-coloured 



stellate scales . . . . . . . . 2. H. rhamnoides. 



1. H. salicifolia, Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. 68. Syn. H. conferta, Wall. 

 Vern. Asliuk, Nepal ; Surch, Bassahir. 



A large shrub, with scattered lateral thorns, the ends of main branches 

 often thorny. Leaves membranous, 2-3 in. long, linear-lanceolate, narrowed 

 into a short petiole, edges revolute, green and glabrate above (pubescent- 

 while young), white velvety beneath, with dense soft tomentum of short 

 stellate hairs ; branchlets, petiole and midrib clothed beneath with circular, 

 irregularly indented rust-coloured scales, a few ferruginous scales occasion- 

 ally on the under side of leaves. Fruit fleshy ; seed dark brown, shining, 

 compressed, ovate or obovate, J in. long, with a deep longitudinal furrow 

 on one and a shallow furrow on the other face. 



