- Celastrus. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 625 
with the anthers, Capsules roundish, size of a large 
dry, rugose, one-celled, two-valved, opening round the say 
Seeds from one to six, or even eight, attached to the centre 
of a ridge in the bottom of the cell, which crosses the’ open- 
ing of the valves; their shape varies according to the number 
of seeds, Integument single, and while fresh more like a 
thin, smooth, soft, moist, entire, scarlet aril, than a common 
skin. Perisperm contorm to the seed, cartilaginous. Em- 
bryo erect, minute, lodged in the base of the perisperm, ra- 
ther below the umbilicus, Cotyledons two, very small, Ra~ 
dicle inferior, oval, 
8. C. micrantha, R. 
‘Scandent, somewhat armed. Leaves unequally pinnate ; 
leaflets from five to seven, opposite, oblong, entire, smooth, 
with simple parallel veins, Panicles axillary, filiform, ferru- 
ginous. Nectary saucer-shaped, bearing the stamina on its 
margins, style none, 
A native of the Moluccas, a very doubifal apecies. 
9. Cc. obtusifolia, R 
Arboreous, unarmed. Leaves petioled, lanceolar, bine 
ly serrulate, very obtuse, hard, smooth, Peduncles fetes 
many-flowered. : : 
_A native of the Mauritius. 
STU. ©. monosperma, R., 
sGinubby. scandent. Leaves oblong, glossy, serrulate, Pa- 
nicles thin, linear, axillary and terminal, cn ss 
leaves. Capsules three-valved, one-seeded. — si Mies 8 
_ Tiara the vernacular name in Silhet, age itis aa wild 
in thin forests, climbing up and over trees, &c. to a great ex- 
tent. mend time the month of -_ Seeds de Oc. 
~ Young. shoots smooth and omit perfectly void of every * 
kind of pubescence, Leaves alternate, short-petioled, from 
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