Mtcroiropis.] 



XXXIX. CELASTRINE^. 



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Order XXXIX. CELASTRINE^E. 



Trees or bushes, or lianes, sometimes spiny. Leaves opposite 

 rarely alternate coriaceous often serrate. Flowers generally 

 cymose small, usually bisexual. Calyx small 4- or 5-lobed. Petals 

 4 or 5 insert below disc imbricate. Stamens 4 or 5 (except Hippo^ 

 cratea and Salacia 3 only). Disc usually large and conspicuous. 

 Ovary sessile on disc or immersed in it, 3- or 5-celled; style short 

 or none ; ovules 2 to 4 in eaCli cell anatropous, rarely i pendulous or 

 many attached to axis. Stigma triangular. Fruit capsular, baccate 

 or a drupe or samaroid. Seed often arillate, sometime? winged. 

 Species 500, whole world (King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixv. 339). 



Stamens 4 or 5 ; filaments slender. 



Fruit dehiscent; leaves generally opposite. 

 Ovules 2 in a cell. 



Petals connate .... 



Petals free, clawed .... 



Ovules solitary; petals bifoveolate 

 Ovules 4 or more in a cell; seeds winged in 

 large capsule ; trees 

 Disc free from ovary; stamens insert on 



edge; capsule 3-celled . 

 Disc confluent with ovary; stamens from 



beneath it ; capsule 3-celled . 

 Ovary free, with tuft of hairs at top ; styles 2 



capsule entire or 2-lobed ; trees 

 Drupe unilocular i or 2 seeds 

 Fruit a dry compressed indehiscent drupe i or 

 seeds ...... 



Fruit a berry ; seeds 3 or 4 

 Stamens 3 ; filaments broad flat. 



Climbers ; fruit flat dehiscent ; seed winged 

 Climbers or shrubs; fruit pulpy indehiscent 



MiCROTROPIS 



eugnymus 

 Glyptopetalum 



4. lophopetalum 



5. Celastrus 



6. Gymnosporia 



7. Kurrimia 



8. Pleurostylis 



9. El.eodendron 



10. Perrottetia 



11. HiPPOCRATEA 



12. Salacia 



1. MICROTROPIS, Wall. 



Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers in 

 sessile clusters or pedunculate, cymes axillary or supra-axillary 

 small sometimes unisexual. Sepals 4 or 5 imbricate. Petals 4 or 

 5 connate at base or erect. Stamens 5, insert on disc or corolla. 

 Disc o or small. Ovary free ovoid 2- or 3-celled ; ovules 2 in each 

 cell; style very short or o. Stigma minute. Capsule ovoid or 

 oblong coriaceous 2-valved, i-seeded, dehiscing on one side and 

 falling, leaving the red pulpy arillate seed still attached. Species 

 about 12, India, Ceylon, Java. 



Cymes sessile condensed under -5 in. long . 

 Cymes and peduncles i in. long or less. 



Leaves thin coriaceous oblong-lanceolate acuminate . 



Leaves coriaceous ovate-lanceolate blunt 

 Cymes on long thin peduncles, 3- to 5-flowered ; peduncles 



75 in. long; petals ovate . . . . ■ (4) M. bivalvis 



(r) M. elliptica 



(2) M. discolor 



(3) M. ophirensis 



