456 XXXIX. CELASTRiNE^. [Hipfocrutea. 



country and borders of woods local. Singapore, Changi ; Pulau 

 Ubin (Hullett). Malacca (Griffith). Pahang, Gunong Senyum 

 (Evans). Penang, Waterfall (Curtis). 



Excluded 

 H. Maingayi Lawson, I.e. i. 635, is a Lophopetalum. 



12. SALACIA, Linn. 



Climbing or scrambling shrubs or treelets. Leaves opposite 

 rarely alternate. Flowers small in fascicles or small cymes in leaf- 

 axils. Calyx 5-lobed. Petals 5 imbricate. Stamens 3 continuous 

 with the disc. Ovary conic immersed in disc 3-celled; ovules 



3 to 8 in a cell ; style very short. Fruit baccate red or orange 

 I- to 3-celled. Seed imbedded in white pulp large angular. Species 

 about 130, tropics generally. 



Leaves alternate ...... 



Leaves opposite. 



Flowers in pedunculate cymes, very short. 

 Flowers campanuloid ..... 



Flowers with spreading petals 

 Flowers in panicled cymes, i'5 in. long 

 Flowers fascicled on axillary tubercles. 

 Flowers "35 to '45 in. long. 



Leaves 6 to 12 in. long coriaceous. 

 Flowers 10 to 12 in a fascicle 

 Flowers 3 to 6 on a tubercle. 



Leaves broad shining, oblong to 



lanceolate ; nerves inconspicuous 

 Leaves elliptic ; nerves conspicuous, 



4-5 by 3 in 



Flowers •25 in. wide. 



Leaves elliptic to lanceolate, 3 in. long 

 Leaves oblong, 4 by 175 in. . 

 Flowers "i to -15 in. wide. 

 Leaves oblong, 7 in. long 

 Leaves elliptic, 3 "5 in. long; flowers on 



long slender pedicels 

 Leaves elliptic, cuspidate, 2*5 by i"25 in.; 

 pedicels short .... 



Leaves elliptic, cuspidate 3 by 1-5 in.; 

 pedicels 'i^ in. long 

 Flowers solitary or in pairs, not on tubercles 



(i) S. viminea Wall. Cat. 7267 ; Lawson, in Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 

 627; Kmg, I.e. 362. 



Slender climber. Leaves membranous, usually alternate, lanceo- 

 late acuminate both ends; nerves 5 to 7 pairs very faint, 2*5 to 



4 in. long, -8 to 1-5 in. wide; petioles '8 to 1-5 in. long. Flowers 

 •15 in. across, yellow; pedicels thin, 3 in. long, solitary or 2 to 3 

 together on small tubercles. Calyx flat, lobes triangular. Petals 

 5, round or ovate. Disc very convex. Stamens 3, filaments flat, 

 triangular. Fruit globose red, 4 in, through. Hab. Forests, Singa- 



