452 CELASTRINEZ (Sond.) [ Celastrus. | 
o-& IX. Mystroxylon. Leaves alternate. Flowers 5-parted, umbellate. Drupe dry, 
with a crust-like putamen. 
++ Seeds with an arillus. 
2 XX. Seytophylium. Leaves alternate. Flowers pedunculate ; peduncle 1-flowered, — 
or dichotomously panicled. Ovary 2-celled. 
5-28 I. CELASTRUS, L. 
Calyx 5, rarely 4-parted. Petals 5, rarely 4. Stamens 5, rarely 4, 
inserted under an orbicular, perigynous disc, alternate with the petals ; 
filaments subulate ; anthers introrse, 2-celled, longitudinally slitting. 
Ovary half-sunk in the disc, 2-3-celled. Ovules 2, rarely 5-6 in each 
cell, fixed to the central angle, ascending. Style short ; stigma 2-3 
lobed. Capsule coriaceous, sub-globose, obovate or obcordate, sharply 
~ or bluntly 3-angled, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved: valves placentife- 
rous, Seeds in pairs or solitary, erect, with a complete or incomplete 
arillus. W. d& A. Prod. Ind. Or. p. 158. Putterlickia, Catha & Celastrus, 
Endl. Gen. 5674, 5678, 5679. 
Unarmed or spiny shrubs, natives of the warmer parts of both hemispheres. 
Leaves alternate. Flowers axillary, sub-umbellate, cymose or panicled, small, white or 
greenish. The name is from «nAas, the latter season; because the species are late in 
ripening their fruit. 
TABLE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES. 
A. Cells of the ovary 6-ovuled : 
Branches smooth... 0.0.0... eve ee eee (4) pyracanthus. + 
Branches densely warted ... ... 2. ... 4. ... (2) Verrucosus. 
B. Cells of the ovary with 2-ovules; 
* Unarmed (not spiny): 
Capsule obovate or obcordate, blunt-edged. 
Umbels on ong peduncles... ... ... ... ... (3) peduncularis. 
Umbels on short peduncles; leaves obtuse ... ... (4) eordatus. a 
Umbels sub-sessile; leaves acuminate ... ... ... (5) acuminatus. 7 
Capsule 3-angled, or sharply 3-edged. ee 
Leaves oval or sub-orbicular, quite entirée-edged ... (10) lucidus. : 
Leaves elliptic-oblong, cuneate, toothed, 8-10 lines : 
oi, Se ee ee ie 
Leaves ovate or elliptical, acute, spinous-toothed, 
13-2 inches long ... ... «.. . (12) procumbens. 
Leaves obovate-cuneiform or rhomboid, “Wwavy- 
toothed, obtusely serrate, 14-2 inches long... :.. (13) undatus. 
** Armed with spines; 
Leaves minutely downy ... ... ... vs + (9) tenuispinus. 
Leaves quite glabrous: narrow or mnall: 
wii vont tos i ee, 1) eee 
Ws. lanceol., sub-coriaceous, penninerved, 24-3 
inches long, 4-6 lines wide; panicle } as 
oe long asthe leaf... ... w+ se (8) lanceolatus. 
