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ORDER CXXXV. EL-fflAGNACE^. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, regular : calyx inferior^ simple, 

 tubular, limb 2 — 4-parted, usually coloured inside : stamens 

 seldom free, usually connate with the calyx, and equal in 

 number to and alternate with its segments : free portion of 

 the filaments very short: anthers 2-celled, dehiscing by a 

 double cleft, affixed by the back : pistil simple, free : ovary 

 enclosed by the increased tube of the calyx : style erect, 

 simple, stigmatose above : fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded, pericarp 

 membranaceous : seed erect : embryo straight, surrounded 

 by narrow albumen : radicle inferior : cotyledons narrow. — 

 Trees and shrubs : branchlets often spinescent : leaves alter- 

 nate, rarely opposite, simple, feather-nerved, quite entire, 

 short-petioled : stipules none: leaf-buds naked: flowers 

 solitary or aggregated in the lower axils of the branchlets, 

 sessile or pedicelled, hence sometimes collected in spikes or 

 axillary racemules, seldom arranged in axillary dichotomous 

 cyrces, yellow or seldom whitish, often fragrant : fruit acid 

 or tasteless, yellowish or red, partly eatable. 



GENUS I. EL^AQ-NUS. 



Tetrandria Itlonogynia* Sex: &/st: 



Deriv. Prom Elaia, an olive, and Agnos, the chaste tree, from 

 the resemblance the tree bears. 



Gen. Chae. Plowers hermaphrodite or male by the abortion 

 of the pistil : limb of the calyx cylindric-campanulate below, 

 4-lobed, valvate in aestivation : fruit pseudo-drupaceous, limb after- 

 wards deciduous.— Trees or shrubs : leaves alternate, petioled, 

 quite entire : flowers pedicelled, axillary, solitary or aggregate, or 

 forming short axillary leafed racemes, yellow or white within: 

 fruit fleshy or dry. 



(1) E. KoLOGA. (ScMechf.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XIV. p. 611. 



S^n. E. latifoha, Wiffht, Icon. t. 1856. 



Spec. Chab. Small tree : branchlets unarmed, densely rusty 

 scurfy : leaves elhptic, obtuse at the apex, more or less acute at 



