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Tribe 2. Hippocrateae. Leaves opposite, stamens 3, in- 

 serted on the face of the disk. 



3 HIPPOCRATEA. Disk conical or cup-shaped surrounding 

 the ovary, stigmas 1 to 3, fruit of 3 flattened carpels joined at 

 the base, seeds winged. 



4. SALACIA. Ovary immersed in the disk, fruit a berry, 

 seeds large and angular. 



Note. The 3 stamens found in the genera of this tribe are an un- 

 common peculiarity in exogenous plants. 



1. CELASTRUS. 



C. paniculata. A largo straggling shrub all smooth, branches 

 warty, leaves broad ovate with a s-hort sudden point slightly 

 serrated. Flowers in long compound racemes greenish-yellow, 

 petals turned back, ovary large, capsule 3-celled. Pengi, Kdn- 

 goni, Karang-Kdngoni. 



Common in the Konkan and Ghauts; and throughout the hilly 

 parts of India (II.). 



2. GYMNOSPORIA. 



G. montana. (Celastrus m. D.). A shrub or small tree with 

 white smooth bark and long stout thorns : leaves small, smooth, 

 ovate or obovate, minutely crenate, flowers in short panicles, 

 small, white, pretty and fragrant, capsule 3-lobed, size of a 

 pea. Mdl-Kdngoni t Zekadi. 



Konkan and W. Deccan. Also Guzerat and Sind (D.). 



A variable plant ranging from the Mediterranean, through tropical 

 Africa, to India (H.). 



* G. Rothiana (Ctlastrus R. D.) a shrub, sometimes armed, leaves 

 obovate crenulate, flowers greenish-yellow, capsule obovate, red, 

 3-lobed, seeds brownish-orange. Konkan hills and Ghauts (D.). 



* G. emarginata, leaves emarginate, flowers below them, fruit pear- 

 shaped, red, 3-celled. Not in D., common on the Ghauts (G.). 

 Both of these are called Ytnkal, ingli, Ikari. 



The four following genera, consisting of trees and shrubs with 

 usually opposite leaves, also belong to this tribe. 



Euonymus, disk large fleshy, 4 or 5-lobed, ovary sunk in it, capsule 

 angled or winged. * E. Indicus, leaves oval lanceolate, petals 

 fringed, rust coloured, fruit obovoid, small. Gangellee Ghaut (D.). 

 To this genus belong the English spindle tree, and other species, 

 commonly planted as hedge shrubs in gardens near the sea in 

 England. 



Lophopetalum, disk entire or lobed, capsule angled, not winged. 



* L. Wightianum, a tree with leathery oblorig wings, and flowers in 

 panicles, disk 5-lobed, petals crested, fruit 4 inches long, sharply 

 triangular, seeds winged. No hab. (Z>.). Bolpdle. 



