364 XLI. CELASTRACE^ (olivfr). \_Celastri(s. 



10. C. lancifolius, &/*/m. ct Thonu. PL Gu'm. 132 {ex descr.) A 

 small unarmed tree of 7-10 ft., with green, terete, glabrous or glabrescent 

 branches, and a sharp decurrent line on each side from the petiole. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, shortly but distinctly petiolate, elliptical or ovate-elliptical, 

 acute, often shortly acuminate, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, serru- 

 late or nearly entire, glabrous, 3-6 in. long, U-2f in. broad; petiole 1-3 

 lines. Plowe'rs small, white, in axillary many-flowered fascicles, but little ex- 

 ceeding the petioles ; pedicels 2-3 lines, 1-flowered. Ovaiy 3-celled, half-im- 

 mersed, surrounded by a fleshy disk. Stigma subsessile, 3-sulcate. Fruit 

 crimson, obtusely trigonous. Seeds solitary in each cell, half-immersed in a 

 whitish arillus. 



Upper Guinea. Adah, Guinea, Thonning. 



Iiower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, Br. Welwitsch ! 



Celastrus macrophyllus, of Dr. Welwitsch's mss. 



11. C. laurifolius. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 130 {ex descr.). A small tree 

 or shrub, with pale green, glabrous, unarmed branches. Leaves very corin- 

 ccous, oblong-lanceolate or oval, obtuse or scarcely acute, more or less nur- 

 rowed to the petiole, obtusely dentate-serrate, glabroi-s, paler or glaucescent 

 beneath, reticulation not conspicuous, pale green when dry, 2^-5 in. long, 

 f-lf in. broad ; petiole 2-3 lines. Flowers in rather dense, many-flowererl, 

 axillary fascicles ; pedicels simple, 1-2 lines. Ovary nearly free, surrounded 

 by a broad disk. Capsule glabrous, size of a pea, 3-valved. 



Nile Ijand. Abyssinia, Billon ; Captain Pullen ! 



Var. )3. ? Leaves dark brown when dry, ])aler beneath, serrulate, Pedicels pubescent. 



Mozamb. Distr. Lake Nyassa, Br. Kirk ! 



12. C. huillensis, Welw. mss. A small, much-branched, glabrous, 

 evergreen, unarmed tree. Extremities pale green. Leaves coriaceous, oval, 

 narrowed to each end, obtuse, rather finely and equally serrate, glabrous, 

 1^-2 in. long, \-\ in. broad ; petiole 1-2 lines. Flowers greenish, 

 polygamous, axillary, solitary or in fascicles of 2-5 ; pedicels 2-3 lines. 

 Ovary half-immersed in the disk. Capsule glabrous, 3-valved. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, "Dr. Welmtsch! 



Celastrus multiflorus, Lam. Diet. i. 661, given as a doubtful African species, I do 

 not know. It may be a Cape species. It is described with branches ' horriblement herisses ' 

 with sphies and numerous lateral pedunculate umbelliform cymes of white flowers. 



2. CATHA, Forsk.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 361. 



Calyx 5-lobed, small. Petals 5. Stamens 5, inserted on the outer margin 

 of a thin notched disk. Ovary free, surrounded by the disk, 3-celled ; style 

 very short, 3-fid, with spreading or recurved stigmatose lobes. Ovules 2 in 

 each cell, ascending. Capsule oblong or clavate-oblong, dehiscing from above 

 loculicidally in 3 valves, 1-3-seeded. — A glabrous shrub. Leaves opposite, 

 or alternate on the leafy shoots, coriaceous. Flowers in shoit axillary 

 cymes. 



