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Celastrus, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 619 
in the vertex, the other two-thirds filiform, below slightly in- 
curved, above recurved; colour a bright orange. Nectary 
five-cleft, yellowish, divisions fleshy, truncate, shorter than 
the lower portion of the petals, Filaments short, inserted into 
the fissures of the nectary, recurvate. .Anthers two-lobed. 
Germ round, hairy. Sty/e short, five-grooved. Stigma mi- 
nutely quinquidentate. Capsulesthe size of a filbert, round, 
armed with long, rigid bristles; texture hard, approaching 
to that of a nut, five-celled, ten-valved, Seeds solitary, small 
in proportion to its cell, and attached te its inner angle, ovate- 
oblong, rather pointed at the apex, and obliquely truncate 
at the base. IJnteguments three; the exterior and interior 
membranaceous ; the middle one hard and thick, Perisperm 
none, or very thin. Embryo inverse, yellow. Cotyledons 
large, two-lobed ; and rolled spirally up. Plumula two-lob- 
ed. Radicle cylindric, nearly as long as the seed, superior. 
+2,.B. herbacea, Roxb. Corom. i. N.29. 
B. cordata, Willd. spec. i, 1119. 
Unarmed, herbaceous, erect. Leaves cordate, serrate, 
dumans Nectary one-leaved, five-toothed. __ 
An erect herbaceous plant, a native of the tops of the Cir- _ 
car mountains. | 
Leaves oliansatt petioled, cordate, serrate, downy, two ; 
inches and a half Jong, and one and a half broad, Stipules re- 
flexed, small, acute. Peduncles axillary, one or more, three- 
flowered, Leaflets of the calyx large, reflexed. Nectary 
one-leaved, five-toothed ; teeth converging over the pistillum, 
Filaments five, very sbort, from the fissures of the aida 
relents santinesiceties pigieyes pak. 
CELASTRU S. Schreb. gen. N. 372. 
Calyx five-cleft. Corol five-petalled, Germ three-cell- 
ed, with two or more ovula in each cell ; attachment inferior. 
Capsule superior, from one to three-celled, from two to thrge 
