454 | CELASTRINEZ (Sond.) [ Celastrus. 
flowered, equalling the leaf. Flowers 4 or 5-fid. Petals 1 line long. Capsule — 
and seeds as in C. pyracanthus. 
Sect. 2. Eucelastrus. Disc. orbicular. Cells of the ovary 2-ovuled. 
Capsule obovate, sub-globose, three-cornered or 3-edged. (Sp. 3-21.) 
Caapeule obovate, obcordate or sub-globose (not angular.) (Sp. 3-9.) 
(a.) Unarmed, broad leaved. (Se. 3-5.) 
3. C. peduncularis (Sond.); twigs sub-angular, thinly pubescent ; 
leaves petiolate, ovate-oblong or ovate, obtusely acuminate, obtuse or nar- 
rowed at base, crenato-serrate, glabrous, the younger downy on the 
nerves underneath; umbel axillary, on a long peduncle, few flowered, 
bibracteate, pubescent; pedicels equalling the leafy bracts; capsule 0 
cordate-sub-globose. lex flecuosa, LZ. Mey! in Hb. Drege. 
Has. Mountain woods at Howison’s Poort, near Grahamstown, H. Hutton! Zey! 
2187. Between the Key and Gekau, Drege/ (Herb, T.C.D., Sond.) 
A tree, 15-20 feet high, with terete ashen branches, and curved twigs. Leaves 
2-3 inches long, 1-1} inch wide, ovate, obtuse at base or more oblong and narrowed 
to each end, obtuse or emarginate, the upper sometimes sub-lanceolate, paler beneath ; 
petioles furrowed, 2-3 lines long. Common peduncle 6-9 lines long. Umbel or 
cyme bracted with 2 oblong leaflets 1-14 line long ; pedicels simple. Calyx ovate, 
obtuse, pubescent, ciliolate. Petals rounded, twice as long as the calyx. Dise 
somewhat lobed. Stamens §, short. Style very short. Capsule.4 lines long, 2-celled, 
or abortively 1-celled, 2 seeded. Seed erect, elliptical, compressed, with a thin 
4 ©. cordatus (E. Mey! in Hb. Drege) ; quite glabrous ; twigs eurved, 
angular; leaves very shortly petiolate, cordate-ovate, obtuse, sub-emargl- 
nate, or very shortly mucronulate, serrulate or sub-entire, paler under- — 
neath; umbel axillary, shortly pedunculate, few flowered, glabrous, — 
flower-pedicels equalling the peduncle, fruit-pedicels exceeding it; 
capsule sub-globose or didymous. ae 
‘ at eee shrubs near the mouth of the Omsamcaba, Drege! (Herb. Sond. 
. Mey. ; 
A shrub or tree, with terete, brownish branches, and acutely angular twigs. 
Leaves 1}-2 inches long, 1-1} inch wide, veiny at both sides, with sub-revolute 
margins. Petiole 1 line long. Common peduncle 1 line long; pedicels bracteolate 
at base, as long, or in fruit twice as long. Calyx very obtuse. Petals roundish, 
narrowed at the very base. Stamens 3-4 times as short as the corolla. C 
— as large as a pea, 3-2-1-celled, cells 1-seeded. Arillus thin. Seed com 
pressed. 
5. C. acuminatus (Linn. Suppl. 154); quite glabrous; twigs angular, 
striate ; leaves petiolate, elliptical-acute, or elliptic-oblong-acummate, a 
cuneate at base, serrated, paler beneath; umbel sessile or nearly 80, about 
_ 3-flowered ; capsule “obovate or obcordate, 1-2 seeded. Thunb. Fl. Cap. 
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