XT. ELH AGNACE SA. 
I. OLEASTER SERIES. 
This small order derives its name from the genus Magnus‘ or 
Oleaster (Fr., Chalef), which has regular flowers (figs. 279-284), 
hermaphrodite or rarely polygamous. The receptacle forms a hollow 
Eleagnus angustifolia. 
Fra. 279. 
Floriferous branch. 
cornet, lodging the ovary, and lined by a glandular disk with thick- 
ened edges. hereon is inserted the simple tubular or campanulate 
perianth (considered a gamosepalous calyx), divided above into a few 
valvate lobes or teeth. Their number is usually four (figs. 280, 
281), more rarely from five fo eight. The androceum consists of an 
1T., Coroll., 58, t. 489.—L., Gen. n.159.— Nat, de Paris, i, 375-408, t. 24, 25.—Nuxs, 
Apans., Fam. des Pl., ii. 80.—J., Gen.,75.— Gen. Plant. fasc. 3, t. 18.—Spacu, Suit. a 
Gmetn., Fract., iii. 203, t. 216.—Lamx., Dict., Buffon, x. 454.—Ewpn., Gen, n. 2115.— 
i. 689; Suppl. i. 186; Til. t. 73.—A. Ricw., Merssy., in DC. Prodr., xiv. 608. 
Monogr. des Eleagnées, in Mém. Soc. Hist. 
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