626 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CelastVUS. 



obovate oblong- to lanceolar, glossy on both sides, serrulate, 

 obtusely pointed, from three to five inches long-, and one or 

 two broad. Panicles axillary and terminal, linear, thin of 

 branches, two, three, or even four times longer than the leaves, 

 smooth. Flowers numerous, small, pale greenish yellow. 

 Bractes subulate, small, smooth. Calyx five- parted, segments 

 short and rounded. Petals five, sub-orbicular, inserted, al- 

 ternate with the stamens under the margin of the flat repand 

 nectary, which embraces the base of the germ. Filaments 

 five, short. Anthers oval. Germ obovate, oblong, three-cell- 

 ed, with two ovula in each attached to the bottom of the cell. 

 Style short. Stigma trigonal. Capsu le the size of a field 

 bean, oblong, smooth, three-valved, but I never found more 

 than one cell. Seed solitary, covered with an orange-colour- 

 ed, pulpy tunic, under it a single, tender integument, of a 

 lioht brown colour. Perisperm conform to the seed, pure 

 white. Embryo erect, deep green. Cotyledons oblong. Ra- 

 dicle oval, inferior. 



11. C. robnslvs. R. 



Leaves alternate, lanceolar, entire, glossy. Racemes axil- 

 lary, length of the leaves. Capsule one-celled, two-seeded. 



Sheelko?l the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indi- 

 genous and grows to be one of their largest timber trees. It 

 blossoms in August, and the seeds ripen in March. 



Young shoots straight, round, and smooth. Leaves alternate, 

 petioled, lanceolate, entire, acuminate, firm, and even glos- 

 sy ; about six inches long, and one and a half or two broad. 

 Stipules small, caducous. Racemes axillary, single, or pair- 

 ed, simple, cylinrlrie, length of the leaves. Flotvers numer- 

 ous, and over every part of the raceme, small, greenish yel- 

 low. Bractes conical, one under each pedicel. Calyx five- 

 parted ; segments oblong. Petals five, oblong, spreading-. 

 Nectary, a fleshy, fi ve lobed ring round the base of the germ. 

 Filaments five, rather longer than the petals. Anthers two- 

 lobed. Germ superior, round, with a little long white wool 



