170 74. EL.tAGNACE^. [McBognus, 



Order 74. ELJEAGNACEJ3. 



Shrubs or trees, silvery scaly. Leaves alternate or opposite, 

 entire. Flowers regular, 1-2-soxual, white or yellow. Perianth 

 tubular, 2-6-clef(, valvate m bud. Stamens usually 4, alternate 

 with the perianth lobes. Ovary free, l-celled, with a solitary erect 

 ovule. Fruit indehiscent, enclosed within the accrescent perianth 

 tube. 



ELJEAGNUS, Kmi. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, densely silvery scaly, 

 on the lower surface. Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual by 

 abortion. Perianth-tube constricted above the ovary ; limb valvate, 

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

 with a bony or coriaceous endocarp. 



E. latifolia, Linn. Sp. PI. Ed. 2. 177 (excl. syn.) ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 202 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 180; Brandis For. Fl. 390; K Kologa, Schl. ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. PI. 224. Nurgi, amhgool, Yern. Throughout the 

 Konkan and North Kanara, usually in or near evergreen forests. Fl. 

 Nov., Feb. Fr. May-July. Branches often with curved spines. Fruit 

 acid, astringent. 



Order 75. LORANTHACE-SI. 



Parasitic evergreen shrubs. Leaves coriaceous, generally opposite. 

 Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or unisexual, usually bracteate. 

 Calyx adnate to the ovary, limb truncate or 0. Petals 4-8, free or 

 connate, valvate in bud. Stamens as many as corolla lobes, usually 

 inserted on them. Ovary inferior, l-celled. Ovule 1, erect. Fruit a 

 1-seeded drupe. Albumen fleshy. 



Flowers 2 sexual ... ... ... ... ... ... LoK^STHra 



Flowers 1 sexual ViscuM. 



LORANTHUS. 



Shrubs, often with stellate hairs. Flowers usually large, coloured. 

 Petals free or more or less connate into a tube. Stamens with 

 versatile anthers. 



Flowers small in glabrous spikes. Corolla segments 



4-5, free. Bract scale like. 



Leaves short petioled. Buds cylindric L. Wallichianxis. 



Leaves long petioled. Buds angled L. obtusatus. 



Flowers in axillary fascicles or racemose, mealy 



tomentose. Bract scale like. Anther cells indistinct . 

 Flowers, &c., rusty villous. Corolla buff or pink ... L. scurrula. 

 Flowers yellowiah white tomentose, scurfy. Corolla 



green L. pulverulentus. 



Flowers racemose or in clusters. Corolla-tube gibbous- 



ly inflated or not. Bract scale like. Anther cells 



indUtiact. 



