CELASTRACE^. 



414. C. paniculatus Willd. sp. i. 1125. Roxb.fi. ind. i. 621. 

 DC.prodr. ii. 6. W. and A. i. 158. — C. nutans Roxb.fi. ind. 

 i. 623. DC.prodr. ii. 6. C. Rothianus DC. prodr. ii. 8. — 

 Circar mountains, Mysore, &c. 



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 ter- 

 minal, compound or supra-decompound, elongated, much longer than 

 the uppermost leaves. Calyx-lobes rounded, ciliated. Margin of the 

 disk thin, free. Capsule globose, 3-celled, 3-6-seeded. Seed with a 

 complete arillus. W. and A. — A stimulant and useful medicine according 

 to Dr. Royle. (Illustr. 167.) 



MAYTENUS. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx 5-cleft, small, permanent. Petals 

 5, spreading. Stamens 5. A fleshy disk round the ovary. 

 Capsule 1-4-valved, loculicidal. Seeds a few in the bottom of 

 the cells, furnished with an aril. Embryo plane, in fleshy albu- 

 men. DC. 



415. M. chilensis DC.prodr. ii. 9. Dot. Reg. xx. 1. 1702. — 

 Senacia Maytenus Lam. ill. n. 2712. Celastrus Maytenus Willd. 

 L 1127. — Mayten Feuill. obs. iii. 39. t. 27. — Chili. 



A small tree. Leaves alternate, simple, coriaceous, evergreen, ovate- 

 lanceolate, tapering a little at the base and very much at the apex, 

 serrated. Flowers axillary, fascicled, herbaceous, minute. Petals 

 oblong, obtuse, concave, much larger than the teeth of the calyx. 

 Stamens shorter than the petals. Capsules the size of a pea, turbinate, 

 cinereous, coriaceous, 2-valved, 2-seeded. Seeds 2, erect, with an 

 orange-coloured aril. — A decoction of the young branches used in 

 ChibT as a wash for swellings produced by the poisonous shade of the 

 tree Lithi. DC. 



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