Elmagnus.] LXIV. EL^BAGNE^. 391 



81, fig. 1 ; Bot. Eeg. xxix. t. 51. Vern. Ghlwain, karikdl, Ttanlwli, Pb., 

 N.W.P. ; CHwdiv,, gaioai, gaMn, glim, gihen, gidnhdn, Main, hamneioa, 

 Pb. (Dr Stewart gives these names to H. latifolia, whicb 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 J 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 ^. 

 umhdlata 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 {giU sanjad, dahU 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. 



Oeder 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 Arceuthobium 

 simple, epigynous, with 2-4 valvate lobes, in iomre^^MS 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 

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

 adnate to them. Ovary inferior with a solitary erect ovtde 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 soKtary, albuminous, in Viscum occasionally poly- 

 embryonous.— Eoyle 111. 235 j Wight 111. ii. 63 ; OUver on Loranthacese 

 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 . . ••,•,■„, Viscum. 



Joints terminating ma cup-shaped sheath; anthers 1-ceUed, 



dehiscing by a transverse slit • . • ^ ■ • • 2. Arceuthobium. 

 Flowers bisexual, slowy j petals 5-6, long, linear, free or connate 3. Loiianthus. 



