908 BENGAL PLANTS. [Eleagnus. — 
shortly petioled, usually solitary or 2-3-nate, sometimes fascicled 
on short, leafless, or leafy branchlets; bracts 0. Perianth wit 
oblong or globose, persistent base, narrowed above the ovary, then 
-shaped or campanulate, yellow or white within, deciduous, 
limb valvately 4-lobed, often with a prominent ring above the 
constriction amie Stamens 4, adnate to corolla-throat ; filaments 
short. O l-celled; style linear, included, slightly dilated 
above ; sd lateral, Fruit with a thin pericarp, enclosed in 
the persistent, accrescent, berried, or rarely dry perianth-base, 
toughened within. Seed with hard, shining testa; saver 0 or 
very scanty. 
1794. ELZAGNUS LATIFOLIA Linn.; F. B. I. v. 202; E. D. B. 48. 
E. conf F 40. 
N. Bengal; E. Benva:- Chittagong. 
A SEN scandent shrub. Beng. Guara; 
Magh. Kamboo 
Order CXIII. LORANTHACEA. 
Evergreen, semi-parasitic shrubs. Leaves usually opposite, 
saat Har "pager es. stipules 0. Flowers -_ 
or double. Capac or pate pédianitht when sailoiil adnate to the 
e 
mb @ or ¢ 
entire or shortly toothed. Petals, or simple perianth-segments 
when Sears 3-6, rarely 2, valvate, free or more or less connate 
in a tube or in a sheath, split on upper side. Stamens as many &8 
and opposite vehi corolla-lobes, usually adnate to them; filaments 
filiform; anthers usually 2-locular; dehiscence longitudinal or 
sometimes by pores. Disk epigynous or in ¢ flowers within th 
stamens, fleshy and rather prominent, or 0. Staminodes in * 
flowers, and rudimentary ovary in ¢ flowers rarely present. Car 
pels forming an inferior ovary, at first apparently solid, at — 
1-celled ; ovule solitary, adnate throughout to the ovarian W 
style short or long; stigma simple. Frwit a 1-seeded berry oF 
drupe. Seed adnate throughout to the pericarp; albumen fleshy; 
embryo straight ; radicle superior. 
Flowers hermaphrodite .......... 
Flowers 1-sexual 
