256 CHINESE ECONOMIC TKEES 



Carrierea calycina Franchet. 



Tree 10 m. tall. Leaves 8-15 cm. long, half as wide, acuminate, 

 crenate, ovate to elliptic or obovate, glabrous, at first reddish, later green. 

 Flowers white, firm in texture; 2-5 cm. in diameter; sepals cordate-ovate. 

 Capsule 5-9 cm. long, pubescent. Seeds winged. 



Central China. 



This tree resembles Idea in appearance. The apetalous flowers with 

 large, white sepals, the staminate more numerous, the pistillate few or 

 solitary, and the capsular fruit are distinguishing characters. 



ELEAGNACEAE 



Trees or shrubs with silvery or brown scales or stellate hairs. 

 Leaves alternate or opposite (Shepherdia), simple, entire. Flowers perfect, 

 polygamous or dioecious, regular, apetalous, clustered or rarely solitary; 

 perianth of staminate flower 2 or 4 parted ; perianth of pistillate or perfect 

 flower campanulate and 2 or 4 lobed above, tubular or urn shaped 

 below and enclosing the ovary, more or less persistent and becoming 

 fleshy in the fruit; stamens 4 or 8, inserted on the tube; disk annular 

 or lobed; ovary superior, sessile, 1 celled, 1 ovuled; style and stigma 1. 

 Fruit an achene, enclosed in the fleshy receptacle, appearing drupe-like. 



Three genera and about 50 species widely distributed. A family 

 of no great importance, to the forester. 



KEY TO GENERA 



I. Flowers perfect or polygamous, solitary or 2-4 in a cluster; calyx 



4 lobed; fruit oblong , Eleagnus. 



II. Flowers unisexual, usually dioecious, in short racemes; calyx 

 minutely 2 lobed ; fruit globose Hippophae. 



ELEAGNUS 



Deciduous or evergreen shrubs or trees, sometimes spiny, and mostly 

 with silvery scales or stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, entire, 

 petioled. Flowers axillary, solitary or in clusters of 2-4, perfect or 



