XL. celastr.vce.t:. 233 



KoNKAN : liilld ill the Koiikan, conmion, Dahell lJ- Gibson ; Mathiran, Kunitkar ! 

 S. M. Coi NTUV : Raingbat, liitrhic, 141! Deccan : Paiioligani, Woudrow; Maba- 

 bleslnvar, Cooke \, Graham. Kanaka: Ward'.; Katgal (^N. Kauara), Talbot.— Distiub. 

 Apimrently eiideiiiio. 



3. Gymnosporia montana, Benth. Fl. Austral, v. 1 (1SG3) p. 400. 

 A tall ^h^llb or sometimes a small tree ; young branches often spinescent 

 at the extremi'ies and bearing leaves and flowers. Leaves turning very 

 pale in drying, coriaceous, about l|-2 by |-1^, variable in size and 

 shape, elliptic or obovate, usually rounded at the apex, entire or crenu- 

 late, tapering at the base into the petiole ; petioles §-§ in. long. 

 Flowers iu axillary usually f urcately-branched cymes ; peduncles slender, 

 solitary or fascicled ; pedicels tiliform, jointed below the middle ; bracts 

 small, lanceolate, acute. Calyx-lobes broadly elliptic-oblong, rounded at 

 the apex, ciliate. Petals g in. long, elliptic-oblong. Filaments flattened 

 and dilated at the base. Disk fleshy, 10-lobed. Ovary glabrous, 

 orbicular ; style in the fertile flowers deeply 2-3-cleft. Capsules about 

 as large as a good-sized peppercorn or small pea, purple when ripe. 

 Seeds glabrous, chestnut-brown, rugose, arillate. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 621 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 48; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) 

 p. 270. Cchistrus montamt, Eotb, Nov. PI. Sp. (182 L) p. 154 ; Eoxb. Fl. 

 Ind. V. 1, p. 020 ; Grab. Cat. p. 38 ; Dalz. &. Gibs. p. 48. Oelastras senegal- 

 ensis. Lam. Encyc. v. 1. p. 661 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p.lxvi, 

 t, 10, tig. 2; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 239.— Flowers : Oct. 

 A^EBN. Helel ; Mdl-lcdnguni. 



KoNKAN : Law \, Sfocks ! Deccan : bills near Alandi (Poona districts), Kanifkar ! ; 

 ICaiiiatki Gbat, abundant, JVoodrow; Kartriz bills (Poona districts), KunitJcarl ; 

 ])ongergaou(near Abmednagar), CookeX ; Kiiandesb, Edc/eworth] Gvjahat: Koodiana, 

 Balzell tf- Gibson. Kanaka: Sirsi, Hohenhacker, 734! Sind : Dahcll cf- Gibson. — 

 DisTiuB. India (Central, Soutb-westeru, and North-western jjarts); Afghanistan, Central 

 Africa, Malaya, Australia. 



7. EL-ffiODENDRON, Jacq. f. 



Trees and shrubs, usually glabrous. Leaves opposite and alternate ; 

 stipules minute, caduccms. Flowers in axillary cymes, small, sometimes 

 polygamous, usu illy white or green ; peduncles solitary or fascicled. 

 Calyx 4-5-partite. Petals 4—5, spreading. Stamens 4-5, inserted 

 beneath the margin of the disk; filaments short, subulate; anthers 

 Hubglobose. Disk thick, 4-5-sinuate, -angled or -lobed. Ovary pyra- 

 midal, confluent with the disk, usually 3-gonous, 2-5-celled; ovules 2 in 

 each cell ; style very short ; stigma 2-5-lobed. Drupes dry or succulent ; 

 stone 1-3-celled, cells 1- (rarely 2-) seeded. Seeds erect, exarillate ; 

 albumen fleshy; cotyledons flat. — Distmb. Tropical Asia, America and 

 Australia, S. Africa ; species 30. 



1. Elseodendron glaucum, Ptrs. Syn. v. 1 (1805) p. 241. A 

 small tree. Leaves 2^-6 by 1-2^ in., extremely variable, elliptic, acute 

 or acuminate, often twisted at the apex, crenate-serrate or subentii'e, 

 glabrous, base acute or rounded ; petioles \-^ in. long. Flowers 

 numerous, in divaricate axillary or extra-axillary paniculate dichoto- 

 mously branched cymes ; pedicels slender, glabrous ; bracts small, ovate, 

 acute. Calyx very deeply divided ; lobes unequal, orbicular, with 

 membranous margins. Petals ^ in. long, oblong, obtuse, distant. 

 Stamens much shorter than the petals ; anthers roundish. Disk thick 



