626 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Celastrus. 
obovate-oblong to lanceolar, glossy on both sides, serrulate, | 
obtusely pointed, from three to five inches long, and one or 
two broad, Panicles axillary and terminal, linear, thin of 
branches, two, three, or even four times longer than the Jeaves, 
smooth, # lowers numerous, small, pale greenish yellow. 
Bractes subulate, small, smooth, Calyx five-parted, segments 
short and rounded. Petals five, sub-orbicular, inserted, al- 
ternate with the stamens under the margin of the flat repand 
nectary, which embraces the base of the germ. Filaments 
five, short, Anthers oval. Germ obovate, oblong, three-cell- 
ed, with two ovula in each attached to the bottom of the cell. 
Style short. Stigma trigonal. Capsule the size of a field 
bean, oblong, smooth, three-valved, but I never found more 
than one cell. Seed solitary, covered with an orange-colour- 
ed, pulpy tunic, under it a single, tender integument, of a 
light brown colour. Perisperm conform to the seed, pure 
white. Embryo erect, deep green. | Cotyledons peers Ra- 
dicle oval, inferior. 
11. C. robustus. R. 
Leaves alternate, lanceolar, entire, glossy. Racemes:axil- 
lary, length of the leaves, Capsule one-celled, two-seeded. 
Sheelkoil the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indi- 
genous and grows to be one of their largest timber trees. It 
blossoms in August, and the seeds ripen in March, 3 
_ Young shoots straight, round,and smooth, Leaves alternate, 
petioled, lanceolate, entire, acuminate, firm, and even glos- 
sy ; about six inches long, and one and a half or two broad. 
Stipules small, caducous, Racemes axillary, single, or pair- 
ed, simple, cylindric, length of the leaves. Flowers numer- 
ous, and over every part of the raceme, small, greenish yel- 
low. Braetes conical, one under each pedicel. Calyx five- 
parted ; segments oblong. Petals five, oblong, spreading. 
Vectary, a fleshy, five-lobed ring round the base of the germ. 
Filame nis five, rather longer than the petals, .4nthers two-. 
S lobed, Ger “— meeneie liahedowg! inbiaanel? 
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