228 XL. CELASTRACE^. 



flat, foUaceous ; radicle almost always inferior.— Distrib. Throiighout 

 tropical and temperate regions of the world ; genera 39 ; species 

 about 400. 



Stamens 4-5 (rarely 10) ; filaments usually ineurTed ; seeds 

 albuminous. 



Leaves opposite (sometimes alternate in Lo^phopetalum). 

 Fruit capsular, dehiscent. 

 Ovules 1-2 in each cell. 



Petals free 1- Euony.mus. 



Petals connate 2. MirRoTiiopis. 



Ovules 4 or more in each cell 3. Loi'Iiopetalum. 



Fruit indehiscent, coriaceous 4. Pleurostylia. 



Leaves alternate ; fruit capsular and dehiscent. 

 Cells 2-ovuled. 



Shrubs, usually scandent ; ovary free 5. Celastrus. 



Erect often spinous shrubs; ovary confluent 



with the disk 6. Gyiwosporia. 



Leaves alternate and opposite ; fruit drupaceous and 



indehiscent 7. El.eodendron. 



Stamens 3 ; filaments recurved ; seeds exalbuminous. 



Fruit dry; seeds winged 8. Hippocratea. 



Fruit baccate; seeds not winged 9. Salacia. 



1. EUONYMUS, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, usually glabrous. Leaves opposite ; stipules caducous. 

 Flowers axillary, small. Calyx 4-5-fid, persistent. Petals 4-5, inserted 

 on the disk ; filaments usually very short ; anthers broad, 2-celled. 

 Disk large, fleshy, 4-5-lobed. Ovary sunk in the disk, 3-5-celled ; 

 ovules 2 in eacli cell; style short or 0; stigma 3-5-lobed. Capsule 

 3--5-celled, 3-5-lobcd, angled, or winged, sometimes echinate, loculi- 

 cidally 3-5-valved, cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds enclosed in a fleshy aril, 

 albuminous; cotyhdons broad, foliaceous. — Distbib. India, China, Japan, 

 Malaya, Europe and N. America ; species about 40. 



1. Euonymus indicus, Ifeyne, ex Wall, in Eoxh. Fl. Incl. (ed. 

 Carey) v. 2 (1S24) p. 40!). A small tree. Leaves coriaceous, 2^-4 by 

 ]_2l in., e]li|)tic or oblong-lanceolate, acute or sometimes shortly 

 acuminate, entire or with a few obscure serrations towards the apex, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, smooth and shining above, base acute ; 

 petioles g-g in. long ; stipules linear-subulate, very caducous. Flowers 

 about i in- across, axillary, solitary or in peduncled umbellate cymes ; 

 peduncles 1-2, variable in length, from O-ll in. long ; pedicels 1-3, 

 glabrous, when more than 1 and on the top of a peduncle about \ in. 

 long, when not peduncled reaching 1 in. long. Calyx glabrous, fleshy, 

 deeply divided ; lobes semicircular, entire. Petals reddish, orbicular- 

 oblong, fringed at the ajjex. Stamens inserted on the disk near its 

 margin ; filaments short, flattened. Disk \ in. in diam., 5-lobed, fleshy. 

 Ovary sunk in the disk. Fruit g in. long, obovoid-clavate, 5-winged. 

 Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 608; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 47; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. M (18{l7) p. 270. Eiumymns Gouf/hii, Wight, 111. 

 V. 1, p. 178; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 47; Wight, Icon. t. 215.— Flowers : 

 Dec.-Feb. 



S.M. Country: Castlcrock, Woodrow, KnnUl-ar\ F\anara : fvcrgrecn forests of 

 N. Kanara Olii'ifs ; common on the S. Ghats of N. Kanara, Talhot \ Devimana GhAt, 

 N. Kanara, Wimdrnw] - DisTRin. Lidia (W. Peninsula). 



