Eleagnus.] ELAAGNACER. 907 
806. Aquilaria Lamk. 
Trees ; leaves alternate, nerves slender, parallel. Flowers her- 
map ite, pedicelled, in subsessile, axillary and terminal umbel- 
lules ; bracts 0. Perianth campanulate ; lobes 5, broad, spreading ; 
scales on the perianth-throat 5, densely pilose, connate below in a 
short ring. Stamens 10, adnate to perianth-throat; anthers sub- 
sessile, oblong; connective broad. Disk 0. Carpels connate in a 
subsessile, villous ovary, perfectly or imperfectly 2-celled; style 
obsolete ; stigma large, subsessile. Firwit a compressed, oblanceo- 
late or obovate, loculicidal capsule ; pericarp coriaceous, or hard 
and woody. Seeds ovoid with a long tail; testa crustaceous ; 
tegmen thick ; albumen 0 
1793. Aquinarta AGALLOCHA Roxb. ; F, I. ii. 422; F. B. 1. v. 199; 
D. A. 1251. 
Tippera. 
A large evergreen tree. Vernac. Agar, agaru. 
Order CXII, ELHAGNACES. 
Shrubs or trees, with a copious covering of silvery or brown 
Seales. Leaves alternate or opposite, quite entire; stipules 0. 
Flowers small, regular, hermaphrodite or dicecious, solitary or 
fasciculately spiked or racemed in leaf-axils or on leafless nodes ; 
8 small, deciduous. Perianth in hermaphrodite or female 
flowers tubular, narrowed above the ovary and persistent below, 
free, sessile, 1-locular ovary in base of perianth; ovule solitary, 
erect, basal, anatropous; style terminal, linear or dilated above, 
Stigma lateral. Fruit a nut, closely covered by the 
, berry-like perianth-base ; pericarp membranous. Seed 
Sect; testa hard; albumen scanty or 0; embryo straight; coty- 
ledons thick, fleshy ; radicle inferior, very short. 
807. Eleagnus Linn. 
Trees or shrubs, often silvery, with a scaly or stellate tomentum ; 
leaves alternate, petioled, entire. Flowers hermaphrodite, axillary, 
