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stout thonis. Leaves obovate, very obtuse, 1^ to 2^ or rarely 3 in. long, en- 

 tire or minutely creuulate, nan'owed into a petiole of 2 or 3 lines, membranous 

 or tliinly coriaceous, of a pale-green. Cymes 2 or 3 together in the axils or 

 on the old nodes, rarely above 1 in. long, with slender dichotomous branches. 

 Calyx-lobes 5, verj^ short, broad, ciliate. Petals 5, obovate, about 1 h^e 

 long. Ovary 3-celled; style very short, with 3 spreading stigraatic lobes. 

 Capsule flat at the top, obtusely 3-angled, about 3 lines diameter in the 

 Australian specimens, usually smaller in India. Arillus of the seeds cup- 

 shaped.— aVd:5^;v/5 wontanus, Koxb. ; W. and Arn. I.e., with all the syuo- 

 uyms quoted; Wight, Ic. PL t. 382. 



Queensland. Cape York, M'GilUvray. Common in the Indian Peninsula, and ap- 

 parently the same as the tropical African Celasirus senegalensis, Lam.; I have seen tio 

 spccnriens from the Indian Archipelago. The Australian specimens arc unarmed, hut that 

 IS frequenily the case with Indian ones, with which tliey au;rce in every respect except the 

 larger capsules. 





40O xxxTV. celasthine^. - [Celastriis, 



IHowers small, in short loose axillary or lateral racemes, occasionally growing 

 out into leafy-branches. Pedicels slender, 2 to 3 lines long. Calyx-lobes 5, 

 orbicular, not ciliate. Petals broadly ovate, about 1 line long. Disk rather 

 thick, but less so than in Gymnosporia. Ovary 2-celled, Avith a short style 

 and 2 short spreading stigmatic lobes. Capsule globidar or ovoid, 2 lines 

 diameter, or rather more, 2-valved, 1- or 2-seeded. Seeds enclosed in a pulpy 

 arillus. ^ — CatJia Cunnivghamii, Hook, in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 387. 



W. Australia, Victoria river, F. Mueller; islands of the Gulf of Cai-pentaria, K 

 Broivn, 



Queensland. Broad Sonnd, R, Brorvn ; Moreton Bay?, J, Cunningham; Roek- 

 hampton, Tliozet ; "VYai'wick, Beckler ; St. George's Bridge, 'MitchelL I 



N. S. "Wales. Port Jackson and Hunter's River, R.Brown; Hastings, Clarence, 

 and Macleay rivers, -B(?cZ7^r ; New England, C.Stuart; Blue Mountains, Miss Mkinson ; 

 Penrith and St. Aubyn's, Backhouse ; Paramatta, Woolls ; Lachlan river, A. Cunningham, 



This and the three preceding species appear to have the erect habit but not the cymosc ni- 

 floresceuce nor the thick disk of Ggnmosporia, and the stamens always proceed from the 

 margin of the disk, 



2. GYMNOSPORIA, W. and Arn. 



Calyx 4- or 5 -cleft. Petals 4 or 5, spreading. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted 

 under the disk; filaments sulndate; anthers short. Disk broad, sinuate or 

 lobed. Ovary attached by a broad base or partially immersed in the disk, 2- 

 or 3-celled ; style short ; stigma 2- or 3-lobed \ ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule 

 obovoid ov nearly globular, 2- or 3-celled, opening loculicidally. Seeds 1 or 

 2 in each cell, the arillus complete or imperfect, or sometimes wanting ; testa 

 roriaoeons; allnimcn fleshy; cotykdons leafy. — Shrubs or small trees, the 

 small branches often thorny. Leaves alternate, entire or serrate, without 

 stipules. Flowers small, in dichotomous cymes, either axillary or on the old 

 nodes. 



The geuns is widely diffused over the warmer regions of the Old \Yorld, oue species being 

 found as far north as Spain, and a few extending to the Pacific isLinds. The Australian 

 species is an Indian and African one. 



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