.r. ] ILICINE*. S-'i 



3. I. insignis, Hook, f.; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 599; Gamble 18. Vern. 

 Lasuni, Nep. 



A small evergreen tree, with smooth grey bavk. Wood white, soft, 

 close-grained. Pores very small, numerous, often in radial lines. 

 Medullary rays very line and broad, the latter longer than in /. theafolia y 

 prominent on a radial section, giving the wood a mottled appearance. 



Darjeeiing, above 6,000 feet. 



Weight, 40 Ibs. In winter it has clusters of bright red berries like common holly, 

 and is used for similar purposes of decoration. 



Ibs. 



E 355. Gumpahar Forest, Darjeeling, 7,000 feet .... 40 



H 256, from the Garhwal Hills, is a specimen sent by Mr. R. Thomp- 

 son in 1868. It has been much eaten by insects, but shews a structure 

 similar to that of /. insignia. We refer it to /. odorctta, Ham. Weight, 

 32 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



ORDER XXXI. CELASTEINEJE. 



An Order of trees, shrubs and climbers, sometimes thorny, and recognised by the 

 flowers having a conspicuous disk. It contains 13 genera, 4 of which are found 

 in North- West India, and the remainder in the Eastern and Western moist zones. 



The Order is divided into 2 Tribes, the first being subdivided into 3. These are 



Tribe I. Celastreae 



Sub-Tribe I. Euonymoa; . . Euonymus, Glyptopetal niii. 



Microtropis, Lophopctalu in 

 and Pleurostylia. 



II. Celastreae . . Celastrus, Gymnosporia and 



Jurrimia. 



III. ElsBodendreao . . Elceodendron. 



Tribe II. Hippocrateae ..... Sippocratea, Salacla ;>iul 



Siphonodon. 



Glyptopetalum contains 3 shrubs or small trees, of which G. zeylanicum, Thw. 

 and 6r. grandiflorum, Beddonie Ixv., are large shrubs of the Western Ghats; and G. 

 sclerocarpum (Euonymus sclerocqrpus, Kurz i. 250), with a white, close-grained 

 wood, of the Pegu Yoma. Microtropis contains 7 species, of which 4 occur in Southern 

 India, 3 in Burma, and 2 in the Eastern Himalaya and Eastern Bengal. The chief 

 species is M. discolor, Wall; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 614; Kurz i. 251; Gamble 18. 

 (Euonymus garcinifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 628) Vern. Suglim, Lepcha ; Mori, 

 Svlhet. Pleurostylia Wightii, W. and A., Hook. Fl. Ind. 'i. 617, is a small tree 

 of Southern India. Kurrimia contains 3 trees, of which K. paniculata, Wall.; 

 Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 622 (Trochisandra indica, Beddome t. 120), is a handsome tree of 

 the Anamalai Hills, said to yield a good timber, and K. pulcherrima, Wall. (K. robusta, 

 Kurz i. 253) Vern. Kwaydouk, Burm., an evergreen tree of Burma with a brown , 

 heavy, close-grained wood. Bippocratca contains 6 species of climbing shrubs, of 

 which two, H. indica, Willd. Vern. Kurzati, Bombay; and H. arborea, Koxb. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 167 ; Brandis 83. Vern. Katha-paharia, Beng., reach to Northern India. 

 Salacia contains also 14 species of climbing shrubs, of which 8 occur in Burma and 6 in 

 South India: while Siphonodon celastrinens, Griff'. , Hook. Fl. Ind. i, 629; Kurz i. 254. 

 Vern. Myoukopshit, is an evergreen tree of Burma, with a pale yellowish heavy wood. 



Wood even-grained, not very hard; generally without heartwood 

 (except Elceodendron) . Pores uniformly distributed, very or extremely 

 small. Medullary rays very fine, very numerous. 



