188 | CELASTRINEA. 
Tribe CELASTREA., 
1. EHUONYMUS. | 
Euonymus, Linn. Gen. Plant. n. 271; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 360. 
About fifty species are known, most numerous in the mountains of India and in 
North-eastern Asia; a few in the Malayan islands, one in Australia, and several North- 
American, apparently absent from Tropical and South Africa and South America and 
the West Indies. 
1, Euonymus acuminatus, Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 59. | 
SouTH Muxtco, plain called Llano Verde (Hartweg, 452). Hb. Kew. 
2. Huonymus mexicanus, Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 36. | 
SoutH MExico, mountains near Huasco (Hartweg, 279), Mineral del Monte to Rancho 
del Paso and Omitlan (Ehrenberg). Hb. Kew. 
3. Euonymus parviflorus, Hemsley, Diag. Pl. Nov. pars 1, p. 6. 
Fruticosus, glabrescens, ramulis gracilibus, foliis vix coriaceis breviter petiolatis lanceolatis acumi- 
natis acutis, floribus parvis cymosis, cymis 6—12-floris pedunculatis. 
Frutex glabrescens, ramosissimus, ramulis gracilibus, subquadrangulatis. Folia fere membranacea, 
glabra, breviter petiolata, lanceolata vel elliptico-lanceolata, 2-3-pollicaria, longe acuminata, 
acuta, remote et obscure serrulata, petiolo 2-3 lin. longo.”. Flores tetrameri, cymosi, graciliter 
pedicellati, minus quam sesquilineari diametro; cyme axillares pedunculate, 6-12-flore, pedun- 
culis gracilibus, 6-19 lin. longis, pedicellis 1-2 lin. longis; calyx puberulus, lobis rotundatis ; 
petala orbicularia, undulata, in unguiculum brevem abeuntia; discus crassus, 4-lobatus; sta- 
mina intra discum inserta. Ovarium 4-loculare?, stylo brevi, stigmate capitato. 
Nicaracua, Chontales (Tate, 292). Hb. Kew. 
4. Kuonymus, sp. 
Sours Mexico, near Tantoyuca (Lrvendberg, 139). 
2. CELASTRUS. 
Celastrus, Linn. Gen. Plant. n. 270; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 364. 
About twenty species, most numerous in the mduntains of India and in China and 
Japan, a few Australian and North-American. Bentham and Hooker subsequently (7. ¢. 
p. 997) united Gymnosporia with Celastrus, thus adding upwards of fifty Old-World 
species. 
1. Celastrus? aphyllus, Schl. in Linnea, xv. p. 458. 
? Colletia multiflora, D.C. 
MExI00, near Jacualtepan (Ehrenberg). 
2. Celastrus mexicanus, DC. Prodr. ii. p. 8 ; Calques des Dess. Fl. Mex. 165. 
MEXICO, without locality (Mogino & Sessé). 
