Celastrus. pentandria monogynia. 



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in the vertex, the other two-thirds filiform, below slightly in- 

 curved, above recurved ; colour a bright orange. Nectary 

 five-cleft, yellowish, divisions fleshy, truncate, shorter than 

 the lower portion of the petals. Filameyits short, inserted into 

 the fissures of the nectary, recurvate. Anthers two Iobed. 

 Germ round, hairy. Style short, five-grooved. Stigma mi- 

 nutely quinquidentate. Capsulesthe size of a filbert, round, 

 armed with long, rigid bristles; texture hard, approaching- 

 to that of a nut, five-celled, ten-valved. Seeds solitary, small 

 in proportion to its cell, and attached to its inner angle, ovate- 

 oblong, rather pointed at the apex, and obliquely truncate 

 at the base. Integuments three ; the exterior and interior 

 membranaceous ; the middle one hard and thick. Perisperm 

 none, or very thin. Embryo inverse, yellow. Cotyledons 

 large, two Iobed ; and rolled spirally up. Plumula two-lob- 

 ed. Radicle < \ limbic, nearly as long - as the seed, superior. 



2. B. hcrbacea. Roxb. Corom. i. N. 29. 



B. cordata. Willd. spec. i. 1119. 



Unarmed, herbaceous, erect. Leaves cordate, serrate, 

 downy. Nectary one-leaved, five-toothed. 



An erect herbaceous plant, a native of the tops of the Cir- 

 car mountains. 



Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, serrate, downy, two 

 inches and a half long', and one and a half broad. Stipules re- 

 flexed, small, acute. Peduncles axillary, one or more, three- 

 flowered. Leaflets of the calyx large, reflexed. Nectary 

 one-leaved, five-toothed ; teeth converging over the pistil lum. 

 Fi In mints five, very short, from the fissures of the nectary, 

 reflexed. Anthers double ; singly oval. 



CELASTRUS. Schreb. gen. N. 372. 

 Calyx five-cleft. Corol five-petalled. Germ three-cell- 

 ed, with two or more ovula in each cell ; attachment inferior. 

 Capsule superior, from one to three-celled, from two to three- 



