266 CelastraceCB. {Euonymns, 



XXXVIL— CELASTRACE.^. 



Shrubs, sometimes climbing, or trees; 1. simple, opp. or alt., 

 with or without stip. ; fl. regular, bisexual (rarely polygamous), 

 small; cal. more or less deeply 5- (rarely 4-) lobed, persistent, 

 lobes or sep. imbricate ; pet. 5 (rarely 4 or 6), imbricate 

 (rarely contorted), slightly connate in Microtropis ; disk usually 

 large and conspicuous, often lobed ; stam. 5 or 4 or 3 (rarely 2), 

 inserted on or outside disk ; ov. free or immersed in disk, 

 2-5-celled, with 2 or more erect (rarely i pendulous) ovules 

 in each cell, style short, more or less 3- (or 2-) fid ; fruit a 

 2-5-valved loculicidal capsule, i-many seeded, or a i-seeded 

 drupe (in the Hippocratai; a berry or of distinct carp.) ; seed 

 with or without a fleshy aril, usually with copious endosperm, 

 rarely without endosperm, cotyledons flat, usually foliaceous. 



Stam. 5 or 4, fil. subulate. 

 Leaves opposite. 

 Fruit a capsule. 

 Seeds not winged. 



Capsule 5-valved with several seeds. 



Pet. 5; ovules 2 in each cell . , i. Euonymus. 



Pet. 4 ; ovule solitary in each cell . 2. Glyptopetalum. 



Capsule 2-valved, i-seeded . . .3. Microtropis. 



Seeds winged 4. Kokoon.\. 



Fruit a drupe. 



Stam. inserted outside small disk . . 5. Pleurostylia. 

 Stam. inserted on surface of large disk . 6. El/eodendron. 

 Leaves alternate. 



Climbing shrub 7. Celastrus. 



Shrubs; capsule 3-valved . . . .8. Gymnosporia. 



Tree; capsule 2-valved 9. Kurrimia. 



Stam. 3, fil. flattened {Hippocratecc). 



Fruit of 1-3 two-valved carpels . . . ,10. Hippocrate.a. 

 Fruit a fleshy berry 11. Salacia. 



Of our 19 species, 10 are found in the moist low country, and 2 of 

 these, Kokoona^ and KurriJiiui, extend upwards into the lower montane 

 zone. Six are species of the dry region, of which one, Elawdendron, has 

 also a montane variety. Microtropis and Eiionyinus revoluitis are con- 

 fined to the hills. 



I. EVONVmUS, L. 



Trees or shrubs ; fl. in small axillary infl. ; cal. deeply 

 5-fid, persistent; pet. 5, flat, rotundate, spreading; disk large, 

 fleshy, 5-lobed; stam. 5, inserted on margin of disk; ov. sunk 



