RHAMNACE/E 2$ 



ovate, acuminate, prominently rugose above, the nerves 

 obscure on both surfaces. Flowers small. Capsule 3 to 

 4 inches ellipsoid. [G.RM.P.] 



Western Nilgiris, Bolampatti Hills, 2,000 to 6,000 feet. 



CELASTRUS. 

 Cclastrus paniculata IVilld,; Vol. I p. 81, and II t. 63. 

 Add: 



Ripe capsule a brilliant orange colour. 



GYMNOSPORIA. f.b.i. 41 viii. 



Trees with alternate leaves, and dichotomous axil- 

 lary cymes of small flowers. Fruit a globose or obovoid, 

 often angular, capsule with one or two arillate seeds in 

 each cell. 



Species about 60 in the hotter parts of the world. 



Gymnosporia ovata Lawson ; F,B.L i 619, VIII 7. A 

 shrub, no thorns. Leaves very hard and thick, drying 

 dark green or blackish and roundish, about two inches 

 long, crenulate. Flowers very small, in dense fascicles of 

 5^ to 1^/2 inches, on short peduncles. Fruit J^ inch, 

 broadly obovate, three-celled : seed with aril only at the 

 base. t. 306. 



Nilgiris : on the plateau at Kodanad, etc. Fyson^ 6364. 

 Pulneys : Poombarai, etc. Buurne 837. 



RHAMNACE^. 



See Vol. I p. 82, and substitute for the key to the 

 genera : 



r Flowers egg-shaped, very woolly .... pomaderris. 



\ Flowers flat, not woolly ........... b 



, (Leaves opposite ornearly so ....... scutia. 



\ Leaves alternate distinctly .......... c 



f Thorns stipular, curved ; flowering branches leafless . . . 



ZIZYPHUS. 



I Branches spiny or not ; fruits in axillary fascicles . . . 



j^ RHAMNUS. 



