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Symnosporia.] XLi. celastrine^. (M. A. Lawson.) 621 



Western Himalaya; m Kumaon and Garwlial, alt 1-4500 ft. ?Concaii, aocks. 

 V^TRiB. Aflfghanistan. 



A shrub with very thomy straight or slightly zigzag branches; spines slender, 

 i-i in. Leaves serrate. Fetak ^-^ in., white, oblong-ovate. 



-Branches armed. /Spines hearing leaves and flowers, 



riJSI' ^*^• Walllchlana, Spreng. Syst. 5, Index 150 {under Celastrua 

 "g^ciaj ; leaves 1-1^ by |-1 in. obovate crenate, fruit turbinate \ 

 Ulastms Wallichiana, W. d: A. Prodr. 159; Wall Cat. 4304. 

 nalLmHoxb. Fl. Ind. ed, Carey, ii. 396. C. buxifolia, Roxh HoH. Beng 

 lis. Catha Wallichii, Don Gen. Syst. ii. 10; Walp. Hep. I 532. , v;-.^ > 



AxjAB, at Peshawur, Falconer; Westerx Peninsula; Courtallam, Wight; Maisor 

 r ^^r^b with zigzag branches, profusely armed with stout spines 1-3 in. long, 



2 m. 

 C. rigida^ 



^U"^" eniargrinata, -ffo^A iV^ot;. 6>. 155 (Celastrus) ; leaves 1-2| by 

 J"\* ^* obovate-cuneate entire, flowers fascicled in'the axis of the leaves 

 yaon the spines, fruit turbinate \ in. C. emarginata, W. Jc A. Prodr. 160 ; 

 ?/ on ^^- ii. 8 ; TTa/;. Cat. 4305 ; i?o.x^. 7^<J. Ind. i. 620: G^roA. (7a^. Bomb. 

 y;: 39 ; Fbi;gr< ZTor^. Sub. Calc. 166. Catha emarginata, iJon Gen. Syst. il 9 ; 

 ^ Smites Bmm. 72; ^a//?. 7?e;?. i. 532. 



t, I ^^?^R^ PEJaNsuLA, Shuter; Conoan, Graham; Anamallay hills, Wight. Ceylon, 



*i|^^Jrj' parts of the Island. - ' : '- 

 A shrub with stout zigzag'trahclies, profusely armed with spines 1-2J in. lon^. 



^''e* sometimes broadly ovate, emarginate, very coriaceous. Flowers on slender deli- 



^^e pedicels ^ in. long. Fruit 3-celled, 1-seeded. 



16. G. montana. Roxb. FL Lid. I 620 CCelastrus) : leaves 1-3 by " 



shni^^ ^'^ovate to orbicular-obovate crenulate, cymes rigid divaricating 

 orter than the leaves, fruit globose | in. black 1-3-celled, cells 1-seeded. 

 ^lastnis montana, W. <k A. Prodr. 159 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 381: Wall 

 Z' t^06 ; Wigkt Ic. 382 : Voigt Bort. Sub. Calc. 166; Both Nov? Sp. 154; 

 f('f^odT. ii. 9 ; Bedd. Fl Sylvat. Anal Gen. lxvi.:Dah, & Gibs. Bomb. 

 J.; "^^ C. nallida, Wall Cat. 4307; Voigt HoH. Sub. Calc. 167. U. ere- 

 l^^^ Both ]}^ov. Sp. 156, not o/Farsl ?C. senegalensis. Lam. - DC. Prodr. 

 cJ'a^^' FL Or. ii. 11 ; Brand. F(yr. FL 81. Catha montana, G. Dm 



jjJ^OQrfiOut the drier parts of Central, South- Western, and North- Westerh 



A— DisTRiB. Affghanistan ; Central Africa ; Malay Archipelago ; Australia. 

 ^ll\^^ straight, or only slightly ziirzag, profusely armed, rarely unarmed. Cymes 

 ''"' "" ' ' ■ eg^ Torking many times. Capsules numerous, with the size 



-AlHinnLrh tli*^ pxtreme forms of this species are very dis- 



tiact U 1 . * Pepper com. 



jjfi'' ;V^ i^ipossible to find characters to limit them. Celastrus montana,i^o%h,, < 

 N r ?® forms which have the brancbes less profuselj armed, and the leaves la 

 Pfofiis ? ' ^' *^"^i7«^««*wr. Lam., those in which the sterns^ are more robust, 

 ^bp j^^^^^' and the leaves smaller " ^ r, 



iiter.n* ^**^^?ct species. De Candolle ^ i 



stems are more robust, and 



pallida^ 

 and Eoth's montana 



^^ species, but I follow Wight and Amott in uniting them. 



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ir-'^««^^« opposite, rarely alternate, to wards,.. tl^e ends of the 

 *^caes, coriaceous, eiitire, shining, penninerved j petiole slender. 



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