CELASTRIAC^. 8l 



into the leaf-axils. Sepals two to four, scarious persistent. 



No disc. Style with four-notched stigma. Fruit oblong ; 



Yz by 1/5 inch, asymmetric, the small stylar point to one 



side of the top. Wight Ic. t. 975. 



Nilgiris : Ootacamund on Elk hill, Kotagiri. Fyson 2015, 

 2592. 



Gen» Dist. Western Peninsula, Mysore, Concan. 



Microtropis ovalifolia Wight ; F.B.I, i 614, III 6 ; a 

 shrub. Leaves smaller and narrower and more pointed 

 than the last species, but like them hard, smooth, and 

 with recurved margin. Flowers in cymose panicles on 

 axillary peduncles ; buds % inch egg-shaped or 

 obconic ; petals united. Fruit Yz by 1/5 inch, seated on 

 the enlarged calyx and containing one crimson seed, 

 t. 62. 



Nilgiris : (JVig/if, Bourne). 



CEL ASTRUS. f.b.i. 41 vii. 



Climbing shrubs with alternate leaves and panicles 



of small flowers, of the family type : characterised by the 



ovary being free of, or but half immersed in, the disc ; the 



stamens inserted on the margin of the disc ; style with 



three-lobed stigma ; fruit a dehiscent capsule. 



Species 40 in Asia, Australia, Polynesia, and North 

 America. 



The na7?ie is of Greek origin and connected with the word keelas 

 meaning the latter part of the year, because the seeds ripened rather late on 

 in the atittanH and hung some time on the tree. Btit the Greek KELASTROS 

 was probably a eugnymus. 



Cclastrus paniculata Willd. ; F.B.I, i 617, VII I. A 

 large woody climber or straggler over trees, characterised 

 by the numerous short leafy shoots of the current year, 

 rising each from a cup or swelling marking the bud 

 scales, covered with shiny grey skin studded with 

 numerous pale lenticels, and ending during the early 

 summer months in large drooping panicles of small 

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