158 CELASTRINE E. CzrasTRUS. 
IV. CELASTRUS, Linn.; Gertn. Sr. t. 95. 
Calyx 5-parted. Petals 5, sessile. Torus a fleshy orbicular disk. Stamens 
5, inserted into or under the margin of the disk: anthers opening longitudi- 
nally. Ovary sessile on or half immersed in the disk, 2-3-celled ; ovules usu- 
ally in pairs, rarely 5-6 in each cell. Styles thick, entire or 2-3-cleft. Cap- 
sule 2-3-celled, the dissepiments sometimes incomplete or evanescent. Seeds 
1-2 in each cell. Albumen fleshy. Cotyledons foliaceous.—Shrubs with al- 
ternate leaves. Peduncles many-flowered, axillary or arranged in terminal 
panicles. 
Notwithstanding this character be very comprehensive, it will exclude several 
lants generally admitted into the genus: of these C. bivalvis, Jack, will form an al- 
ied genus: C. striata, Thunb., ought probably to be excluded from the order: €. 
mierantha, Roxb., with pinnated leaves, can never be of this genus: C. verticillata, 
Roxb., belongs to Pittosporee. Perhaps our first section, as has been already point- 
ed out by Kunth, ought alone to be retained in Celastrus: but if the genus is to be 
retained according to our definition, it may be divided into various sections on a 
much better principle than that adopted by De Candolle. Ofthe published Indian 
ones, C. robusta, Roxb., (having the ovary and capsule 2-celled, and the style almost 
divided to the base) will be the type of one section: C. monosperma, Roxb. (with 
the ovary 3-celled, but the capsule l.celled 1-seeded and 3-valved, the seed with a 
complete arillus), of another. The Cape species are scarcely known, but C. ptero- 
carpa with its allies may form a little group ; while C. acantha, the only one we 
believe that has more ovules than two in each cell, will be readily recognis by that 
character from all the other "eco We do not give a description of C. 
Lam. (Wall. L. n, 4315; Wight! cat. n. 503; C. obtusifolia, Roxb.) the specimens 
being from the Mauritius. 
§ 1. Eucelastrus. Polygamous-diewcious. Stamens arising from the margin 
of the disk. Ovary 3-celled, sessile on the disk : ovules 2 in each cell, with 
a cup-shaped arillus at their base. Style entire. Stigmas combined into 
one which is lobed and papillose. Capsule globose, 3-celled,. Seeds surround- 
ed by an entire fleshy arillus—Climbing unarmed shrubs. Leaves of 4. 
thinnish texture. ae 
496. (1) C. paniculata (Willd. :) unarmed, climbing; young shoots and 
flower-bearing branches pendulous: leaves broadly oval or ovate or obovate, - 
usually with a sudden short acumination, slightly serrated, glabrous: racemes 
terminal, compound or supra-decompound, elongated, much longer than the 
uppermost leaves: calyx-lobes rounded, ciliated : margin of the torus thin, 
free: capsule globose, 3-celled, 3-6-seeded : seed with a complete arillus.— 
Willd. sp. 1. p. 1125 ; Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 621 ; (ed. Wall.) 2. p. 388 ; in E. 1. 
C. mus, tab. 188; DC. prod. 2. p. 6; Spr. syst. 1. p. 775; Wall.2 L.n. 49105. 
Wight! cat. n. 480.—C. nutans, Roxb. fi. Ind. 1. p. 623 ; (ed. Wall.) 2. p. 290; 
in E. I. C. mus. t. 1805 ; DC. prod. 2. p. 6; Spr. syst. supp. p. 89; Wall.* 
p n: 401-0 a Schult.; DC. prod. 2. p. 8.—Ceanothus panicula- 
tus, Heyne! in nov. sp. p. 154; Spr. syst. 1. p. 772.—Scutia paniculata, 
G. Don in Mill. dict, 9, p. 34. buta: 
Roxburgh first of all gave the specific name we have retained, when deu : 
ceived specimens from the Circar mountains from his collectors: and un 
the same Heyne and the missionaries transmitted specimens to Willdenow 
and Roth, by whom they were published in Europe either as Celastrus of 
Ceanothus. Roxburgh not having seen the plants growing, has erroneously 
figured and described the panicles erect ; so that afterwards when he obtain 
living plants from Mysore, sent by Heyne to the Calcutta garden, he did not 
recognise his own plant, but made another figure and description under the 
name C. nutans. allich’s L. n. 4810. has a somewhat different aspect, per zs ; 
we scarcely think it differs as a species. C. dependens, Wall., or C. multifio- —— 
rus, Roxb. (in E. I. C. mus. t. 1806.) appears to belon gto this eectiutt, ^^ 
