656 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Celastrus. 
A native of the northern Circars. In the Botanic garden 
at Calcutta, it flowers during the rains. 
Stems in plants five years old erect, about five or six feet 
high, stout, simple, flexuous, jointed, round, the woody parts 
pretty smooth, the more tender parts rather harsh, with coarse, 
short pubescence. Leaves alternate, from pinnate to tripin-— 
nate, from one to three feet long, and often broader than long. 
Leaflets ovate-lanceolate, the lateral ones with a broad-cordate 
base, serrate, hairy underneath ; from five to ten inches long, 
and from three to five broad. Petioles channelled on the up- 
per edge. Stipules petiolary, large, semi-elliptic, villous, ca- 
ducous. Cymes terminal, super-decompound, villous. Flow- 
ers very numerous, small. Bractes linear, villous, caducous, 
Calyx campanulate, five-toothed. Corol green, five-cleft. 
Nectary round, urceolate, pearl-coloured, inserted on the 
mouth of the small tube of the corol, and there contracted by 
a sharp vein on the inside, deeply five-parted ; segments li- 
near-oblong,, fleshy, with a thin, rounded apex. Filaments 
inserted into the bottom of the fissures of the nectary, above 
the middle jointed, and there bent in and down. Anthers li- 
-near-oblong, inverted, and in that position their margins are 
firmly united into a ring round the stigma. Germ superior, 
ovate, six-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the 
base of the axis. Style short, but thin, andsix-grooved. Stig- — 
_ ma rather large, entire, convex. Berry much flattened, size 
of a small cherry, smooth, black, and somewhat succulent, © 
six-lobed,six-celled. Seed solitary. Perisperm conform to 
the seed, intersected with some deep brown fissures, as in all 
the other species examined by me. Embryo small, a little 
curved, Cotyledons subulate. Radicle inferior, pointing to 
the umbilicus. : =a 
_A.L, hirta. Herb. Banks. 
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