Elceagnus] XCV. ELjEAGXACE.E 547 



Indigenous in Macedonia and Greece, Western Central Asia and China. Cultivated 

 in Baluchistan, Afghanistan and North West Himalaya, 7-10,000 ft., possibly wild in 

 Chitral. PL April-Jnly. 



B. Endocarp ribbed, coriaceous, clothed inside with a dense felt of white 

 hairs. 



2. E. latifolia, I. inn.; Wight Ic. t. 1S5G; Brandis F. El. fc. 46 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. Manual t. xxv. fig. 1. — Syn. E. arborea, Roxb. ; E. conferta, Roxb. 

 Vern. Ghiwdi, Nigali, X. W. Hun.; Jarila, Xep. ; Nurgi, Arribgul, Mar. ; 

 Mingu, Burm. 



An evergreen tall straggling or scandent shrub, or a small tree, branchlets, 

 petioles and underside of 1. densely clothed with ferrugineous or silvery 

 circular, dentate and lobed scales. L. elliptic, acuminate, blade 3-5, pet. |-i 

 in. long. Fl. (J and £ , scented, pedicellate in few- or many-fid. often peduncu- 

 late fascicles, perianth clothed outside with silvery or ferrugineous scales, in 

 the fertile fl. much constricted above the ovary. Fr. 1-li in. ovoid-oblong, 

 succulent, red or yellow when ripe, edible. 



Subhimalayan tract and outer ranges, from the Jumna eastwards ascending to 

 8,000 ft. Khasi hills. Manipur. Chittagong. Burma, Upper and Lower. Along 

 the western Ghats from Mahabaleshwar southwards. Hills of the Deccan. Fl. at 

 various times, chiefly March-Oct. — Ceylon, Malay Aichip. China. A variety with 

 larger 1. 4-6 in. and fruit 1-2 in. long, cultivated by the Karens on the hills east of 

 T'iiiiilto.. an I by i lie siians at Fakial vill. beyond Makum, Assam. — {Mingu, Burm.: 

 Miilnh. Shan), should he studied. 



::. E. umbeUata, Thunb.; Collect Simla Fl. 137, fig. 141.— Syn. E. parvifolia, Wall, j 

 Royle IN. t. 81. f. 1. Vern. Chindar, Pangi; Oinroi, Gehain, Jauns.; Ril, Bash. 

 Kiiraui valley, wild and cultivated. Himalaya 3-10,000 ft, Manipur. — China, Japan. 

 A deciduous shrub, annual rings distinct, branchlets and underside of 1. densely 

 clothed with shining silvery scales, upperside bright green with scattered stellate 

 hairs. L. ell ipt ie.-laiieenl.nl e, Ida de 1-3, pet. I iii. long. Fl. white, exquisitely scented, 

 axillary often Fasciculate, on the current year's branchlets, appearing with or after 

 the leaves. Upper tree portion of perianth slender, tubular. Fr. ovoid or globose, 

 \ in. Imi":, succulenl . 



C. Endocarp crustaceous, not ribbed, glabrous within. 



I. E. piriformis, Hook. f. Mishmi hills. Fr. shortly pedicelled, in lateral clusters, 

 pyriform, narrowed at both ends, }-!, in. long. 



2. HIPPOPHAE, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 202. 

 Dcri'liiiiiis. iliuM'ious shrubs or small trees, usually spinescent. Fl. before 

 the leaves, £ in the axils of deciduous bracts, perianth of two opposite sepals, 

 stamens 4; ? in the axils "f young leaves, perianth tightly enclosing the 

 ovary, minutely bifid at mouth, fleshy in the mature fruit. Species 2. 



1. H. rhamnoides, I. inn. Vern. Sunk, Pangi. Ii rarid tract of the N. W. Himalaya, 



chiefly in moist gravelly streambeds, grega rious, forming dense thickets, continuous for 



miles. I.ali'iul, Ladak, I'iti. Upper Kunawar, Inner K '>n Tib i, 7-15,000 ft. — 



Afghanistan, Central Asia, Siberia, Caucasus. In Euro] the Carpathians, Alps 



and Apennines in shingly and gravelly valleys, descending along the rivei ato the 

 plains. Also .,ii tie- jea coos) "i i ii,- Mediterranean, the Atlantic, the German C 



and the Baltic. A large thorn.v >hrub, souiet inies a small ti , branchlets and under- 



Bide of 1. denseh olothed with silvery or rust-coloured circular or irregularly indented 

 1., i 1 1 i 1 1 1 \ bo] 2 in. long, linear-lai owed 



into short petiole, upper side glabrous and dull green, with a few scales while young. 

 Pr. scarlel or orange Seed d irk brown, shining. 2. H. salicifoila, Don. Vern. Suit, 

 Kim.; Chug, Oahaul. Outer and Middle Himalaya, 5 10,000 it. Branchlets, petiole 

 and midrib beneath olothed with circular irregularly indented rust-coloured scales, 

 I. membranous 2 :'■ in. long, linear-lanceolate, white velvety beneath with dense Bofl 

 tomentum of shorl stellate hairs. 



Order XCVI. LORANTHACEjE. Gen. PI. iii. 205. 



Evergreen parasitic shrubs, living mostly on stems and branches of other 

 shrubs or trees. I,, entire, usually opposite, oftei riaceous, sometimes want- 



