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** Fruit indehiscent. 



Ovules 2 in each cell, erect. Fruit coriaceous, l-2-celle(l . . 6. Pleurostylia. 



SuBTRiBE n. Celastee^. Leaves alternate. Ovules 2 in each cell, 

 erect. Fruit dehiscent. r 



Ovary free. Seeds arillate. Shrubs, usually scandent ; flowers ^ 

 paniculate or racemose ....'... 7. Celastrus. 



Ovary confluent with the disk. Erect shrubs or trees, often ' 



spinose; flowers cymose . . , . ... . . ^. . . 8. Gymnosporia.' 



Ovary free, surmounted by a tuft of hairs, styles 2. Flowers . , , - ^ _ 

 m simple or jianicled racemes ........ .^^ 9. KuKRiWf* "*' 



oUBTRTBE III. El^odendee^. Leavcs opposite or subopposite. -Fruit a 



^ or pulpy drupe. . . v* 



Ovary confluent with the disk, flowers cymose. Seeds exaril- 



^*^^ ••.......,. 10. Eljeodendron. 



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iRiBE II. Kippocratece. Stamens 3, rarely 2, 4 or 5, inserted on the 

 ^ce of the disk, i^^7<^7?^e;^fe flattened, sometimes adnate to the ovary, re- 

 ^'^ed and causing the anthers when dehiscing to become extrorse. S<^ed 

 Albuminous. — Leaves opposite except in Siphonodon, 



*i'uit flattened, dehiscent. Seeds winged. Scandent shrubs; 

 leaves opposite . ' . . . . . . .11. HirrocRATEA, 



^njitaberry. Seeds not winged. Erect shrubs; leaves op- 

 posite . . . . J , ; . . \ -. . 12. Salacia. *;' 



^''UU indehiscent. Seeds not winjred : leaves alternate . . 13. Siphonodox. 



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, 1. ETTOHirittlTS, Linn. ' 



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g j^^^^s or shrubs, erect rarely scandent, glabrous. Leaves petioled, rarely 



jj ^sessile; stipules caducous. Cali/x 4-5-fid, spreading or recurved. 



ms 4-5, Stamens 4-5, inserted on the disk ; anthers broad, 2-celled. 



Y^^ large, fleshy, 4-5-lobed. Ovar 7/ sunk in the disk, 3-5-celIed; style 



j^^j** or 0, stigma 3-5-lobed; ovules 2 in each cell, attached to the inner 

 ^§le, ascending and suspended. Capsule 3-5-celled, 3-5-lobed, angled or 



car^^ ' coriaceous, rarely echinate; cells 1-2-seeded, loculicidal. Seeds 

 ^vered by the aril, albuminous. -Distrib. Species about 40 ; natives of the 

 /^^ntainous regions of Tropical Asia and tl>e Malayan Archipelago, a few 

 ^ Scattered over Europe and North America, 



oECT, 1. Peduncles 1-3-flowered. 

 -Flowers usually 5-nierotis. Petals fimbriate, 



bj; fi- javanicus, Blume Bijdr. 1146 : peduncles l-flowered fascicled. 

 t?^'*- rl. Jav. liar. 130, t. 28. E. sumatranus, Miq, FL Ind. Bat. Sffj^)l. I 

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J Eastern Peniksula ; from Tenassenm to Penang and Malacca.— Distrib. Sumatra, 



•lliV^^? 30-40 ft. iSaves 4-6 by U~2i in., thick and coriaceous, oblong, elliptic or 

 ,J"^"Q^lf>ng, acute or subacumiuate; entire or obscurely crenate-serrate towards the 

 «Wf ^^^^^<^^^9 i-ljin., terete. Petah oblong, about \ in. Friut f in., obovate- 

 rese^Jp^- ^.^^at^iinus, Miq., has fruit. 1 in. or more long, but in all other respects it 



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