Elceagnus.] LXIV. EL^EAGNE^E. 391 



81, fig. 1 ; Bot. Reg. xxix. t. 51. Vern. Ghiwdin, kankol, kankoli, Pb., 

 N.W.P. ; Giivdin, gawdi, gdhm, ghln, gihen, gidnhdn, kidin, banmewa, 

 Pb. (Dr Stewart gives these names to E. latifolia, which is not, as far 

 as I am aware, a native of the Panjab.) 



A deciduous shrub, often thorny, the current year's shoots and under 

 side of leaves silvery grey with shining white scales, branches dull grey- 

 ish-brown. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, blade 1-2| in., petiole \ in. 

 long, under side densely clothed with silvery scales, upper side bright 

 green, with a few scattered stellate hairs. Flowers white, axillary, often 

 2 or 3 together, appearing with the leaves on the current year's shoots. 

 Perianth silvery outside, white or pale yellow inside, the upper free por- 

 tion slender, tubular or elongate-conical, the 4 teeth less than half the 

 length of (the free) tube. Fruit ovoid or globose, \ in. long, succulent, 

 putamen ribbed, coriaceous, clothed inside with a dense felt of soft white 

 hairs. 



Himalaya from near the Indus to Bhutan, between 3000 and 10,000 ft. 

 China. Japan. Hardy in England. Fl. April-June. The fruit is eaten. 



I follow Maximowicz, Diagn. Plant. Nov. Jap. Dec. viii. 560, in uniting E. 

 umhellata and parvifolia, and in distinguishing them from E. latifolia, with 

 which they are united by Thwaites, Enum. PI. Zeyl. 252. Dr Stewart consid- 

 ered that both E. latifolia, the flowers (gul sanjad, daku phal) sold in the 

 Panjab drug-shops, and parvifolia were found in the Panjab, but the latter, 

 with white, exquisitely Heliotrope-like scented flowers, much less common. 



Order LXV. LORANTHACEiE. 



Evergreen parasitic shrubs, living on stems, branches or roots of other 

 shrubs or trees. A few species apparently terrestrial, are probably root- 

 parasites. Leaves coriaceous, entire, usually opposite, often wanting. 

 Flowers small and inconspicuous or larger and gaily coloured, regular, 

 hermaphrodite or unisexual. Perianth in Viscum and Arcenthobium 

 simple, epigynous, with 2-4 valvate lobes, in Loranthus apparently double, 

 the outer (calyx) adnate to the ovary with a free truncate or toothed 

 limb (probably an annular dilatation of the axis), the inner (corolla) of 

 3-6 free or equally or unequally cohering segments (petals), valvate in 

 sestivation. Stamens as many as perianth-lobes or petals, opposite and 

 adnate to them. Ovary inferior with a solitary erect ovule adnate nearly 

 throughout to the wall of the ovary, which thus presents a homogeneous 

 mass on section. Fruit more or less baccate, often with a strongly vis- 

 cous mesocarp. Seed solitary, albuminous, in Viscum occasionally poly- 

 embryonous. Royle 111. 235 ; Wight 111. ii. 63 ; Oliver on Loranthaceae 

 in Linn. Soc. Journ. vii. 90. 



Flowers unisexual, dioicous or monoicous ; perianth coriaceous 

 or fleshy, inconspicuous. 

 Joints not sheathing ; anthers with many cells, dehiscing 



by numerous pores 1. Viscum. 



Joints terminating in a cup-shaped sheath ; anthers 1 -celled, 



dehiscing by a transverse slit 2. Arceuthobium. 



Flowers bisexual, showy ; petals 5-6, long, linear, free or connate 3. Lokanthus. 



