[ 1. Celastrus. 



Fani. 36. CELASTRACE/E. 



Trees or shrubs with simple alternate or opposite leaves; 

 and stipules small caducous or 0. L. entire or crenate, 

 more rarely serrate. Fls. small 2-sexnal or polygamous in 

 cymes or axillary clusters. Calyx 4-5-lobed, persistent, 

 lobes imbricate. Petals 4-5, inserted outside the disc rarely 

 continuous with its margin, imbricate. St. 3-5, inserted 

 either on the disc or on its margin cr arising from its inner 

 side in which case the filaments are often connate as a 

 membrane closely investing the ovary (e.g. Salacia sp,). 

 Anthers 2-celled. Disc usually well developed. Ovary 

 sessile free or somewhat Bunk in the disc, 3-5-celled 

 (sometimes 2-celled in Elaeodendron cells very many in 

 Siphonodon). Style short or 0, Stigma simple rarely 

 3-5-lobed. Ovules 2 in each cell, anatropous, erect (1 in 

 each cell in Siphonodon, or more than two or pendulous in 

 genera outside our area). Fruit various, often only 1 -celled 

 and 1-seeded. Seed arillate, sometimes winged, with or 

 without albumen. Embryo usually large with flat foliaceous 

 cotyledons. 



L. alternate. Fruit dehiscent (Tribe Celastrese)- 



Soandent shrub. Fls. in elongate panicled 

 cymes 1. Celadrus. 



Ereot shrub. Fls. in small dichotomous cymes 2. Gymnosporia. 

 L. mostly opposite and sub-opposite. Fr. indehisc- 



ent— 



A tree. Fls. in fax dichotomous cymes . 3. Elaeodendron. 



Anomalous genus. L. alt. Ovary with numer-* 

 ous cells .4. Siphonodon. 



I. Celastrus, L. 



1. C paniculata, Willd. Knjri, K„ S. ; Konjri, Kharw.; 

 Chiron, Mai. Pah. ; Mai Kangni, Beng. 



A scrambling or climbing shrub with long lenticellate 

 branches, alternate obovate serrulate leaves, green flowers |* 



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