(322 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CelastrilS. 



surrounded with a yellow pulpy nidus, and always separat- 

 ino- into three lobes, whatever the number be. 



4. C. mnltifora. R. 



Shrubby, scandent, unarmed. Leaves alternate, oblong-, 

 acuminate, serrate. Panicles terminal. Stamens alternate, 

 with an equal number of reniform nectarial glands. 



A native of Nepal, from thence Dr. Buchanan sent the 

 seeds to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1802. In July 

 1808, the plants therefrom blossomed for the first time and 

 ripened their seed seven months afterwards. 



Trunk short, about as thick as a man's arm. Bark brown, 

 soft and spongy. Branches numerous, spreading much, and 

 having their extremities often twining, but the scandent habit 

 prevails most. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, drooping, ob- 

 lono-, acuminate, serrate, smooth on both sides ; about six 

 inches long, and from two to three broad. Stipules minute, 

 soon withering and drooping. Panicles terminal, ovate-ob- 

 long, composed of many, simple, diverging-, short, smooth ra- 

 cemes. Flowers numerous, small, pale greenish white. Brac- 

 tes very small, caducous. Calyx obscurely five-toothed. Pe- 

 tals oblong, inserted on the calyx, alternate with the stamens, 

 soon after expansion recurved. Filaments shorter than the 

 petals, alternate, with as many semi-lunar nectarial glands. 

 Germ superior, ovate, three-celled, with two ovula in each, at- 

 tached to the bottom of the cells. Style about as long as the 

 stamens. Stigma of three emarginate lobes. Capsule roundish, 

 somewhat three-lobed, three-celled, three-valved, and gene- 

 rally with a single seed in each cell. Seeds obovate, entirely 

 covered by a thin, pulpy, scarlet aril. Integuments (exclu- 

 sive of the aril), single, tender, white and smooth. Perisperm 

 of a soft cartilaginous texture. Embryo erect. Cotyledons 

 two, round-cordate, and so large as to divide the perisperm. 

 Radicle inferior, pointing obliquely to the umbilicus. 



