CELASTRACEiE. TJ 



Stamens in the male flowers attached to the base of 

 the corolla, anthers heart-shaped, filaments stiff and 

 thickened at the base. Fruit the size of a small pea. 

 t. 59. Wight Ic. I2i6. 



Very common both in sholas and in the open. Nilgiris : 

 in Ootacamund itself in many gardens, e.g., Rosemount. 

 Snowdon, Pykara, on the open hill-sides as small rounded trees, 

 lo to 15 feet high. Pulneys : in sholas, sometimes as very large 

 trees. Fyson 1904, 2201, 2474, 2475, 2537j 2543. 



Gen. Dist, Mountains of South India. 



CELASTRACE/E. 



Shrubs and trees with opposite or alternate simple 

 leaves ; small perfectb^ regular flowers, yellowish or 

 greenish or purplish brown in colour, in some kind of 

 cymose inflorescence ; and two erect ovules to each cell 

 of the ovary. There is usually, but not always, a well 

 marked disc round and above the ovary on which the 

 stamens are borne ; and there is usually also an aril, 

 often brilliantly coloured, on the seed. 



Species about 300 in the warmer parts of Europe, North 

 America and Asia. 

 Leaves alternate : large climber, flowers yellowish in drooping 



panicles celastrus. 



Leaves opposite. 

 Leaves stiffly erect ; flowers yellowish, without disc ; capsule two- 



valved ; seed one only without aril .... microtropis. 

 Leaves spreading ; flowers brownish purple, three or seven on 



slender axillary peduncles ; disc well marked ; capsule red, 



five-valved ; seeds five with red or orange aril . etjonymus. 



EUONYMUS. F.B.L 41 L 



spindle-tree- 

 Small trees and shrubs with opposite simple leaves 

 and flowers in peduncled cymes with large disc covering 

 the ovary, but chiefly distinguished by the angular or 



