1372 CXIII. ELJEAGNACEiE. [Etaagnus. 
1. D. latifolia (leaves broad), Linn . ; Schlecht. in DC. Prod. xiv. 610, and in 
Linncea xxx. 317 ; Benth. FI. Austr. vi. 39. “Millai-millai,” Atherton, Both. A 
shrub sometimes climbing over the tallest trees, sometimes erect and middle-sized 
or with weak straggling stems, covered except the upper surface of the leaves with 
the scurfy scales of the Order. Leaves petiolate, ovate ovate-lanceolate or 
elliptical, usually acuminate but sometimes obtuse, 2 to 4in. long or larger on 
barren branches. Flowers several together in axillary spikes or clusters often 
not exceeding the petioles, with the bracts all small and deciduous, but some- 
times longer with 1 or 2 of the lower bracts leafy and persistent. Perianths 
shortly pedicellate, the lower peisistent portion narrow at the time of flowering, 
scarcely above 1 line long, closed at the top round the style by a disk-like 
annular prominence, the free part of the tube much broader, ovoid-campanulate, 
about 2 lines long, slightly contracted at the top, the limb spreading to 3 or 
3^ lines diameter. Filament very short. Ovary glabrous. Fruiting base of the 
perianth about fin. long, slightly furrowed when dry. Seed about iin. long. — 
Wight, Ic. t. 18-56. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Pioneer River, Vcrnet ; also Eumundi, North Coast 
Railway Line, Bailey and Simmonds. 
Wood of a yellow colour. — Bailey's Cat Ql. T roods, No. 352. 
The species is common in Ceylon and in various parts of India and the Archipelago. In 
Australia the indumentum is either all silvery-white or more or less mixed with or covered by 
ferruginous scales. The stature is very variable, and the size of the flowers also in a less degree. 
