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Pterocelastrus.]  CELASTRINEE (Sond.) 461 
Excluded from the genus Celastrus. 
Astephanus frutescens, 7. Mey. (Asclepiadee). 
Euclex sp. (Lbenacee.) 
Ehretia Zeyheriana Buek (Boraginee). 
Scutia capensis, Brg. (Rhamnew). 
Dovyalis rhamnoides, /7. (Bixacee). 
Dovyalis rotundifolia, H. (Bixacee). 
brachiatum, 7. M. ( Bignoniacee.) 
Cassinopsis capensis, Sond. (Ilicinea). 
Rubiacea. 
C. rotundifolius, Thunb. prod, 42 
C. rigidus, Thunb. Fl. Cap. 220 
C. ovata, 2. Mey./ 
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_ Calyx minutely §-parted. Petals 5, elliptical-orbicular. Stamens 5, 
Inserted between the lobes of a fleshy disc, shorter than the petals. 
Ovary half sunk in the disc, 3 celled ; ovules in pairs, erect. Style 1 ; 
stigma 3-lobed. Capsule 2-3 valved, 3-6 winged, the valves septiferous 
in the middle. Seeds 1-3, erect, with a membranous aril, testa coria- 
ceous, shining, brown ; raphe linear. Hmbryo in horny albumen; the 
tadicle inferior. Meisn. Gen. 1. p. 68. Endl. No. 5682. Asterocarpus, 
E.§Z.! Enum. p. 122. 
Trees or shrubs, natives of S. Africa, erect, glabrous, with erecto-patent branches 
and alternate, coriaceous leaves. Flowers axillary, cymose or panicled, rarely sub- 
sessile. Name from mrepoy, a wing, and Celastrus; this genus differs from Celastrus 
by its winged capsule. 
1. Cyme sessile or shortly pedunculate, fewflowered. (Sp. t-2.) 
1. P. tricuspidatus (Sond.) ; leaves ovate-elliptical, or obovate, ob- 
tuse, narrowed at base, veinless or obsoletely veiny ; cyme about 3- 
flowered ; capsule 3-winged, the wings erect or inflexed, lanceolate, sub- 
ulate at the point, swb-trigonous, with horizontal margins. Burm / Afr. 
t. 07, f. 1. 
Var. «. Lamarckiana ; wings of the capsule trigono-lanceolate, 
mostly entire. A shrub or tree, 8-10 f. high. Celastrus tricuspidatus, 
Lam.! DC. Prod. 2. p. 5. rpus typreus, E. § Z. / 955, excl. syn, 
DC. Prterocel. typicus, Meisn.—Pappe, Sylv. cap. ee Ag 
Van. 8. litoralis ; wings of the capsule trigono-lanceolate, all or one 
or two bifid, or subtrifid. A shrub, 1-3 feet high. C. peterocarpus, DO, &, 
l.c. Asteroc. Burmanni, E. & Z.! 958. 
shrubs, round Table Mts. and Rondebosch ; and between Breede A... 
Has. 
snd Dulvenhade Mivee ‘Ver. Bs 4st Hott, Holland, near Saldanha Bay, Zwort 
land, and in Zwellendam, £. ¢ Z./ Sieber, Mund, Pappe, éc. (Herb. Lam., Lehm., 
TO.D.; Senna: . = a 
Branches terete, twigs angula Leaves uncial or biuncial, pale green when dry, 
chins ae ee long, Petiole thick, 1-2 lines long. Cyme ses- 
sile, or on a peduncle 1~2 long. Fi. small, white. Calyx obtuse. Petals oval- 
oblong, patent. Capsule  tricuspidate, 3 lines long. Wi ipstras< : 
"sometimes in var. 8., by a twist, sub-vertical. ee ee knee eS 
