Eiionymus.] Celastracecs. 267. 



in disk, 5-celled, with 2 superposed ovules in each cell, style 

 very short ; fruit a 5-celled, 5-valved, locuHcidal capsule ; 

 seeds more or less covered with fleshy aril, embryo in axis of 

 copious endosperm. — Sp. 40; 27 in Fl. B. Ind. 



L. entire ; inflor. pedunculate. 



Pedicels very short I. E. revolutus. 



Pedicels \ in. or more 2. E. Thwaitesii. 



L. serrate-crenate ; inflor. nearly sessile . . . 3. E. Walkerii. 



1. E. revolutus, Wight, III. i. 178 (1840). 

 Thw. Enum. I-})- C. P. 579. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 608. 



A small or moderate-sized tree, young parts glabrous ; 

 1. often 3 at a node, ii-3 in., oval or rotundate, acute or 

 rounded at base, obtuse, entire, margins usually strongly 

 revolute, glabrous, coriaceous, petiole very short ; fl. about 

 I in., shortly pedicellate, 1-3, on slender, axillary peduncles 

 often in pairs \-\ in. long ; cal.-segm. rotundate ; capsule 

 J-f in., turbinate, flat-topped; seeds angular, smooth, brown. 



Upper montane zone; rare. Nuwara Eliya; Adam's Peak; Horton 

 Plains. Fl. Jan., Feb.; bright flesh-pink. 

 Endemic. 

 The fl. are very pretty. 



2. E. Thwaitesii, Laws, m Fl. B. Ind. i. 608 (1875). 



E. dichotoimts., Thw. Enum. ']'iy (non Heyne). C. P. 171. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 608. 



A small tree, twigs slender, glabrous ; 1. \\-2\ in., rhom- 

 boid-lanceolate, tapering to base, obtusely acuminate, margin 

 not revolute, entire, glabrous ; fl. \ in., ped. \ in., slender, 

 jointed, in threes on slender axillary peduncle \-\'v!\. long; 

 cal.-segm. very obtuse; capsule \ in., obovate - turbinate, 

 glabrous ; seeds as in E. revohitiis. 



Moist low country; very rare (?) Ambagamuwa; Galagama. Fl. 

 May. 



Endemic. 



\E. die koto mils., Heyne, has been inadvertently given in Fl. B. Ind. 

 for Ceylon, the locality quoted being that at Galagama, above given for 

 E. Thwaitesii^ 



3. E. Walkerii, Wight, III. i. 178 (1840). 



E. zeylatiiciis. Moon Cat. 17. Thw. Enum. 73. C. P. 478. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 608. 



A small tree, branches dichotomous, twigs somewhat 

 quadrangular, glabrous ; 1. nearly sessile, i|-4 in., variable, 

 oval or lanceolate or subovate or sub-rhomboid, acute at 

 base, obtuse or acute or acuminate at apex, usually shallowly 



