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Kohona.] XLI. celastrine^e. (M. A, Lawson.) 617 



^en above and glabrous, paler beneath and with numerous dark-red glandular dots. 

 ntals broadly ovate. Fruit 1-4 in., bluntly triangular.— An oil is expressed from the 

 seeds and used for burning in lamps. Thwaites. 



2. K. littorallSy Laws. ; leaves entire, petals sublatnellate dotless, 

 iruit ovate-lanceolate acute. Trigonocarpus littoralis, WalL Cat. 6520. 



Malacca, Maingay; Singapore, Lobb. 



A tall treQ^ always growing in the water. Leaves 3i-U in., elliptic, dotless. Petali 

 ovate. Fruit 1^-2 in. ; . 



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6. PX.EUnOSTTZ.IA, IVight, 



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A glabrous slirub. Xeaz'es opposite, shortly petioled, entire, exstipulate. 

 ^yrm axillary, very sbort, few-flowered. Cal^x small, 4-lobed. Petals 5; 

 inuch larger than the calyx.. Stamens 5, inserted below the^ disk; con- 

 nective dilated at the back. Bisk thick, crenulate, Ovar?/ half immersed 

 ^,the disk, 2-celled or more commonly by abortion 1 -celled ; style short, 

 stigma broadly peltate; ovules 2 in each cell, erect. 'J^r^^i^ 1-2-celled, 

 coriaceous, indehiscent. Seed 1 rarely 2, erect, covered by the arillus-like 

 ^ndocarp, albumen fleshy abundant ; cotyledons orbicular. — Distkib. 

 opecies 1 or 2 J mountains of India, Ceylon, Mauritius and Madagascar. 



jpl. P. Wlgrhtii, W. d; A. Prodr. 157 i* Wight Ic. 155; Thwaites 

 Enurn. 71 ; Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 47. P. Heynei, W. & A. Prodr. 157. 

 J^elastrus opposita, WaU. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii 398 ; Gat. 4314; 

 ^•^Wightiana, JFa/zr. C'ai!. 4322. _ :■ .: .. 



Westebn Peninsula; Mountains of Malabar, Nilghiris, Quilon .and Courtallam. 

 ^EjLOx; in the hot dry parts of the island. — Distrib, Mauritius ana Madagascar. v 



--'J M..^ l,^J^i iitiu uijf parts ui i»uo inii*uu. — j^ioiivii 



J^aves elliptic-oblong to narrow oblong-lanceolate. 



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7. CEZiASTRUS, Linn. 



minnte 



ccandent shrubs. Leaves alternate, j 

 ^^ons, or 0. Flowers polygamous, in terminal or axillary panicles or 

 ^cemes. Cal?/x 5-cleft. Petals 5, spreading. Bisk broad, concave. 

 '^^mem 5, inserted on the mar^n of the disk. - Ovar?/ not immersed in the 

 ^sk, 2-4-celled ; style short, stigma 3-lobed, rarely 3-fid with the segments 

 Incurved • ovules 2 in each cell, erect. Catmde globose or obovoid, 

 J-^^celled, 1-6-seeded. Seeds enveloped in a fleshy aril, albumen fleshy • 

 ^^^yledons foliaceous.— Distrib. Species scarcely 15, natives of tropical 



America. 



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.*• Branches covered with pale lenticular warts, 



- }• 0. panlculata, WUld. Sp. PL I 1125; calyx-segments half-orbi- 

 ^^ar, petals \ in. obovate-oblong entire, style acute not lobed. fruit 3-celled 

 t^-seeded, seed ^ in. ovoid brown. Wall. Cat. 4310 ; Roxb. tl. M. i. 621 ; 

 *l^*ProfJyr ;; a. ixr J. A P..n^*. inft. W^'nhi. Til 179. t. 72: Id. 158: 



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^ ., ^, , sties Emm. 72; Voim 



Prodr. 190; BC. Prodr. ii 6. C. 



&^^«' ^««. <?«<. 4302; Voigt //o?t *S^^6. Ca?c. 166. C. multiflora, 

 Sf\fJ'Ind. i. 622.. C. nutans, 7?oa:6. FL Ltd. 1.623 ; WalL CV^- 4301. 

 JiKothiana, Rom.S SchtilL St/st. v. 423; BC^ Prodr. u. 8. C. Metziana, 

 i?" f ■ ^^ ^«^^- ^S'oc iVa^. Mosc. 1858, 447. Ceanothus pamculatus, Roth ^ov. 

 %^^S ^(^\xtx2. paniculata, Z?on G^tf^^: Syst. u. 34. 



ft/k'^n^^^^ ^»d Subtropical Himalaya, alt. I^OOO 





^^^ Malay Ar^hip 



Ceylon, ascending to 2000 ft 











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