ElcEodcmiron?\ CelastvacecB. 271 



p. Wig-htii, W. and A. Prod. 157 (1834). Piyari, Panaka, 5. 

 Chiru-piyari, T. 



Thw. Enum. 71. C. P. 329. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 617. Wight, Ic. t. 155. 



A moderate-sized, much-branched tree, bark rough, pale, 

 young parts glabrous ; 1. 2-3 in., lanceolate-oblong or oval, 

 tapering to very short petiole, obtuse or rounded or emarginate, 

 entire, glabrous, rather thick, shining, stip. very minute, 

 deciduous ; fl. very small, in small, axillary, shortly stalked, 

 paniculate cymes, ped. short, divaricate ; cal. glabrous, lobes 

 very obtuse ; pet. rotundate, spreading or reflexed ; stam. 

 shorter than pet. ; drupe | in., ovoid, supported on persistent 

 cal., smooth, marked half way down one side with scar of 

 style, pure white, endocarp thin. 



Dry country ; common. A specimen (Gardner, 172) is labelled by 

 him ' Kalutara,' but this must be an error, unless cultivated there in the 

 old Botanic Garden. Fl. Sept., Oct.; pale green. 



Also in S. India, Mauritius, and Madagascar. 



Wood pale brown, close-grained, smooth, rather heavy. The pure 

 white berries are precisely like birds' eggs in miniature ; the embryo is 

 green. 



6. EZiiEODSNDRON, /^r^./. 



Trees; 1. opp., with minute stip.; fl. in dichotomous, 

 spreading cymes ; cal. deeply 5-fid, imbricate; pet. 5, imbricate; 

 disk large, tumid; stam. 5, inserted on disk; ov. immersed in 

 disk, 2-celled, with 2 collateral erect ovules in each cell, style 

 conical, very short ; fruit a drupe, stone i -celled, i -seeded ; 

 seed without an aril, embryo in copious endosperm. — Sp. 30 ; 

 I in FL B. Ind. 



E. g-laucum, Pets. Syn. i. 241 (1805). Neralu, S. Piyari, 

 Perun-piyari, T. 



Schrebera albens, Retz. Obs. vi. 25. Celastriis glaucus, Vahl, Symb. 

 Bot. ii. 42. Moon Cat. 17. Thw. Enum. q-^- C. P. 1227. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 623. Wight, 111. t. 71 {E. Roxburghii). Retz. Obs. vi. t. 3. 



A small tree, much dichotomously branched, bark worted, 

 thick, brownish-grey, twigs slender, young parts glabrous ; 

 1. opp., 2-3 in., variable, oval or roundish-oval, acute at base, 

 obtuse, often twisted at apex, shallowly serrate-crenate or 

 entire, glabrous, rather coriaceous, glaucous, reticulate, petiole 

 ^in. or more, stip. minute, triangular; fl. under \ in., numerous, 

 in very divaricate, axillary or extra-axillary, paniculate, dicho- 

 tomous cymes, ped. long, glabrous ; sep. almost distinct, 

 rounded ; pet. oblong, obtuse, distant ; stam. much shorter 



