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Dicotyledons with Incomplete Flowers. 
Natural Order 
E LTE AG N AC EM. Tab. 74. 
Diagnosis. —Trees or shrubs with alternate simple leaves, more or less 
covered with minute scurfy scales. Perianth regular. Stamens epiphyllous, 
definite; if uniseriate alternate with the lobes of the perianth. Ovary free, 
1-celled, with a solitary erect ovule. 
Distribution. —A small Natural Order, most numerous in the Himalaya and north-eastwards to 
Japan, with a few representatives in Northern Asia, Europe and America. Rare or wanting in 
Southern latitudes. 
One British Genus; Species, i. 
Leaves and extremities clothed, at least at first, with disciform or stellate-peltate hairs, forming a silvery or 
rusty scurf. 
FLOWERS dioecious in the only British species, Sea Buckthorn (. Hippophae rhamnoicles ) : perianth-tube in its 
lower portion closely surrounding the ovary, persisting, and ultimately succulent, forming a spurious pericarp. 
USES, &c.—The succulent investment of the fruit is edible in some species of Elceagnus , as in Trebi- 
zonde Dates ( E . orientalis), and the North American Buffalo-berry ( Shepherdia ). A few species are frequent in 
shrubberies. 
