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the base, above green, smooth, beneath with the flowers from silver 

 and rusty scaly : flowers pedicelled, deflexed, afterwards growing 

 out into short leafy axillary branchlets : tube of the calyx sub- 

 cylindric, attenuated below, limb broader, urceolate-tubular, lobes 

 broad ovate, acute, with short stellate hairs within, limb slightly 

 constricted : style densely hairly : fruit ellipsoid, a Httle narrowed 

 at both ends. 



Neilgherries. 



(2) E. CONFEETA. {Boxh.) 



Ident. Eoxb. flor. Ind. ed. Car. I. p. 460.— Dec. 1. c. p. 612. 



Spec. Chae. Shrubby: branches covered with rusty scurf: 

 leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, glabrous, green above, beneath 

 densely covered with silvery and rusty scurf: flowers arranged in 

 very short many-flowered axillary racemes, scurfy as the leaves : 

 tube of the calyx cylindric, Umb 4-angular, broader, campanulated, 

 slightly constricted below the triangular lobes : style densely 

 hairy at the base: fruit oblong, succulent, red: flowers straw- 

 coloured. 



Western .Ghauts. Silhet. Cochin, ^lowering in January 

 and February. 



ORDER CXXXVI. SANTALAGEJE. 



Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamo-dioecious : tube of the 

 calyx not distinct from the pedicel, more or less connate with 

 the ovary, usually bearing at the apex a single verticil, 

 seldom two verticils of lobes : lobes of the single verticil or 

 the inner one 5 — 4 — 3, often connate at the base, valvate in 

 aestivation : stamens opposite the verticil lobes, inserted at 

 their base or free part of the tube : filaments short : anthers 

 erect at the apex of the filament, or usually inserted by the 

 back and introrse, 2-celled, dehiscing lengthwise or upwards 

 with a broad mouth : ovary inferior, either first free, after- 

 wards connate, or adhering only by the base, 1-celled : style 

 enclosed, entire or 2 — 3 — 4 — 5-lobed at the top: ovules 

 pendulous, 2 — 3 — 5, simple : fruit nut-like or rarely baccate, 

 indehiscent: seed 1 by abortion: albumen fleshy: embryo 

 straight : radicle superior : cotyledons linear or oblong. — 

 Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees, often parasitic : leaves without 

 stipules, usually alternate, sometimes opposite, entire, feather- 



