624 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CelastTUS» 



nic garden, of these one only is hermaphrodite and fertile, all 

 the rest are male, or male-hermaphrodite, and barren. 



6. C. trigyna. R, 



Unarmed. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oblong, entire. 

 Flowers on small, axillary, dichotomous, round heads. Nec- 

 tary of five scales, alternate in the stamen. Styles three. 



A native of the Moluccas. 



7. C. verticillata. R. 



Arboreous, unarmed. Leaves scattered, broad-lanceolate, 

 waved, entire, smooth. Panicles terminal, umbelliferous. 

 Capsules one celled, two-valved, few-seeded. 



Reared in the Botanic garden at Calcutta from seeds sent 

 from Nepal by Dr. Buchanan in 1802, under the vernacular 

 name Tibiliti. The young trees flowered for the first time, 

 in the rainy season of 1S05, when they were from twelve to 

 fifteen feet high. The seeds ripen in Jauuary. 



Trunk straight ; the branches and branchlets have a strong 

 tendency to be verticillate. Bark of the trunk, and larger 

 branches greenish ash-coloured, dotted with some small, ele- 

 vated, lighter-coloured specks. Leaves numerous, droop- 

 ing, scattered, more crowded towards the ends of the branch- 

 lets, and like them having a tendency to be verticillate, peti- 

 oled, broad-lanceolate, acute, entire ; margins waved, smooth, 

 upper surface polished ; about six inches long, by two broad. 

 Petioles rounded on the under side, flattish above. Stipules 

 none. Panicles terminal, with alternate, spreading-, umbel- 

 liferous, simple ramifications. Peduncles and pedicels round, 

 and smooth. Bractes lanceolate. Calyx five-leaved. Leaf- 

 lets ovate-oblong, slightly ciliate. Petals five, alternate 

 with, and three times ionger than the leaflets of the calyx, 

 linear-oblong, entire, obtuse, at first spreading, afterwards 

 recurved, with the edges revolute. Germ ovate-oblong, a 

 little compressed, two, rarely three-celled. Style erect, 

 permaneut. Stigmas two, rarely three-lobed, about even 



