620 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Celastrus. 
valved; seeds few covered with a coloured aril. Embryo 
erect, and furnished with a perisperm. 
1. C. emarginata, Willd. sp. i. 1128. 
Sbhrubby, armed. Leaves obovate, entire, smooth. Flow- 
ers numerous, axillary, Capsules inflated ; cells twoeeeded, 
Telinga, Chennee Chintoo, 
Is one of the most common, rather poor looking shrubs in 
these parts of India, it grows every where and in —« soil, 
Flowers during the cold season. 
~ Stem nothing deserving the name, but branches innumer- 
able, bent in every direction, and armed with exceedingly 
strong, large, straight, very sharp thorns. eaves alternate 
on the young ‘shoots, ov the old wood or thorns fascicled, 
very short-petioled, obovate, emarginate, smooth, shining ;— j 
about an inch long. S¢ipules small, withering. Umbellets 
very short-peduncled, many-flowered, one or two from the 
centre of the fascicles of leaves. Pedicels many times long- 
er than the peduncle, one-flowered. Flowers small, whitish, 
yellow. Petals twice the length of the calyx. Nectary, a 
saucer-formed, crenulate body surrounding the base of the 
germ. Germ conical, three-celled, two ovula in each, attach- 
ed to the bottom of their cell. Style single, half three-part- 
ed. Stigmas emarginate, Capsule inflated, turbinate, three- 
sided, three-celled, valved. Seeds two im each cell, small, 
shining, red, resting on a white fleshy ceged mane = 
— ae o-tee ee — -_ 
2. C. montana. R. 
Arboreous, thorny. Leaves obovate, serrulate, ainaciie , 
Panicles axillary, small, dichotomous, —_ wa sed 
_ two-seeded, 
_ Telinga. Pedda-chintoo, 
= ‘areenelt t tree, a naanviees sonialanaiy Flowering time the 
% St daeneiea generally e fittle crooked: Brant 
