624 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Celastrus. 
nic garden, of these one only is hermaphrodite and fertile, all _ 
the rest are male, or male-hermaphrodite, and barren. 
6. C. trigyna, R. 
Unarmed. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oblong, entire. 
Flowers on small, axillary, dichotomous, round heads. Nee- 
tary of five scales, alternate in the stamen. Styles three. 
A native of the Moluccas, 
7. C. verticillaia, R. 
Arboreous, unarmed. Leaves scattered, broad-lanceolate, 
waved, entire, smooth. Panicles terminal, umbelliferous. 
Capsules ove-celled, two-valved, few-seeded. 
Reared in the Botanic garden at Calcutta from seeds sent 
from Nepal by Dr. Buchanan in 1802, under the vernacular 
name Tibiliti, The young trees flowered for the first time, 
in the rainy season of 1805, when they were from twelve to 
fifteen feet high. The seeds ripen in January, . 
Trunk straight ; the branches and branchlets havea strong 
tendency to be verticillate. Bark of the trunk, and larger 
branches greenish ash-coloured, dotted with some small, ele- 
vated, lighter-coloured specks. Leaves numerous, droop- 
ing, scattered, more crowded towards the ends of the branch- 
lets, and like them having a tendency to be verticillate, peti- 
oled, broad-lanceolate, acute, entire ; margins waved, smooth, 
upper surface polished ; about six inches long, by two broad. 
Petioles rounded on the under side, flattish above. Stipules 
none, Panicles terminal, with alternate, spreading, umbel- 
liferous, simple ramifications. Peduncles and pedicels round, 
and smooth. Bractes lanceolate. Calyx five-leaved, Leaf- 
lets ovate-oblong, slightly ciliate. Petals five, alternate 
with, and three times longer than the leaflets of the calyx, 
__ linear-oblong, entire, obtuse, at first spreading, afterwards 
recurved, with the edges revolute. Germ ovate-oblong, 4 
little” con prossods, two, rarely three-celled. Style erect, 
anen i iiower sSuie Beir three-lobed, about even 
