Mon^mus.] xLi. CELASTRiNEiE. (M. A. Lawson.) 609 



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A small branching tree, 12 ft.' Leaves 3-4 in., obovate to obovate-oblong, rounded 

 finely and acutely serrate at the apex, shinmg and dark green abt>ve, pale beneath, 

 wmost black when dry. Peduncles 3 in., slender, 3-flowered. Flowers ^ in. across, 

 e J t,^^^^^' nearly orbicular. i^rwiY ^ in., globose with 4 rounded angles yellow. 

 heeds black, shining, with a scarlet aril. — A very elegant plant both in flower and 

 fruit. • . ■ 



Var. Leaves 1^ by \ in., oblong-lanceolate, flowers- smaller— perhaps a distinct 

 Bpecies. Bhotan, Gri^d. 





'8. E. calocarpusv Kurzin Journ. Ai Soc. Beng. 1872, pt. ii 299; 

 peduncles 1 in. or less stout 



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Tenasserim, Heifer, ' 



A shrub ? with glabrous terete branches. Leaves 4-6 by 2f-3 in., elliptic or elliptic- 

 ODioiig, acute or subacuminate, entire, subcoriaceous, green above, pale beneath. Flowers f 

 Capsule the size of "a cherry, globose, obscurely 4-lobed. >Seea 1 in each cell, aril 

 ^^* — Closely resembling a Microtropis in the texture and colour of its leaves. 



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Sect. II. Flowers in 7- or more-flowered dichotomous cymes, (See 4 



•fi. crenulatus.) 



Flowers tcsuaUy b-raerous. 



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a. E.' dichotomusi F'^^ne w ^0x6. Ft. Ind. ed. Carey, il 4lO ; 

 leaves 1^2 in. lanceolate margins entire undulate, peduncles very slen- 

 flfr, flowers very small. Wcdl. Vat 4289 : W. & A. Prodr. 160; Thwaites 

 J^num, 73; Pedd. Ft. Syh. Anal Gen. IxiiL 



Westeri? Peninsula ; Courtallam, Heyne. Ceylon, banks of streams at Galagama, 



. "Y s^^n tree with twiggy branchlets. . Cymes nearly as long as the leaves, exceed- 

 ^gly slender, but firm. Petah ^V in., orbicular, entire, flat. Fruit obconical, _ 



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10. B. g-laber, Poxb. FL Ind, I '628; leaves smooth elliptib-oblbng 

 ^he upper half obtusely serrate, flowers white/.; J^^ ?E..ser- 



^^ata, Wall. Cat. 4296. '^ .r.-o -• v. 



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A small tree with smooth shining dark-browTi oart. Leaves 2J by 1-2^ in., dark- 



groen above, paler beneath. Peduncles stoutish, 1-2^ in. Petals J in., orbicular, 



^^gins slightly undulate. Fruit? _ ~, 1,^^^/ ^ ; ^ - ^ -v : , . . : 

 » Afi. Leaves 3-5 in. oblong-elh'ptic quite entire, — Bhotan, Griffith. 



^^1. B- Serratifolius, ^€c/cZ. i^/. aS^/^v- Anal. Gen. Ixiv. ; /c P/, Ind. 

 ^^' 37, t. clxxi. ; leaves smooth lanceolate sharply and prominently 

 Berrate, ' 



Western Penihstjla ; slopes of the Nilghiris, at Carcom Ghat, alt, 3000 ft., Bed- 



ieavea 3^-4 by f-l^ in., narrow to broad lanceolate, tapenng at ttio apex to a short 

 ^^ point. Petals J in., orbicular, subcordate at the base, crenulate. Fruit j^lo- 

 it^'ff"*^ 5 rounded lobes.— Apparently closely allied to F. paniculatus, from which 



wfers chiefly in its longer narrowed a»d more sharply serrate leaves. 



12. E. paniculatus, Eh. WigM; leaves 3^ by H in. smooth elliptic 

 cjenate-serrate membranous, flowers purplish. E. Crenulata var. laxiflora, 





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J^ESTERN PeninsvlaV on tlieShivagherry hills, m^^^^^^ 



^2/?ne« lax and divaricating, 2J-4 in. Petals orbiculaf, entife, I in. across. Fruit f 



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