XLI. CELASTRiNEJi:. (M. A. Lawson.) 607 



** Fruit indehiscent. 



Ovules 2 in each cell, erect. Fruit coriaceous, 1-2-celled . . . 6. PLEUROSTYLIA. ' 



SUBTRIBE II CELASTKE^:. Leaves alternate. Ovules 2 in each cell, 

 erect. Fruit dehiscent. 



Ovary free. Seeds arillate. Shrubs, usually scandent ; flowers 



paniculate or racemose 7. CELASTRUS. 



Ovary confluent with the disk. Erect shrubs or trees, often 



spinose ; flowers cymose 8. GYMNOSPORIA. 



Ovary free, surmounted by a tuft of hairs, styles 2. Flowers 



in simple or panicled racemes 9. KURRIMIA. 



SUBTKIBE TIT. ELEODENDKE^E. Leaves opposite or subopposite. Fruit a 

 dry or pulpy drupe. 



Ovary confluent with the disk, flowers cymose. Seeds exaril- 



late 10. EI^EODENDRON. 



TKIBE II. Hippocrateao. Stamens 3, rarely 2, 4 or 5, inserted on the 

 face of the disk. Filaments flattened, sometimes adnate to the ovary, re- 

 curved and causing the anthers when dehiscing to become extrorse. Seed 

 exalbuminous. Leaves opposite except in Siphonodon. 



Fruit flattened, dehiscent. Seeds winged. Scandent shrubs ; 



leaves opposite 11. HIPPOCRATEA. 



Fruit a berry. Seeds not winged. Erect shrubs ; leaves op- 

 posite 12. SALACIA. 



Fruit indehiscent. Seeds not winged ; leaves alternate . . 13. SIPUONODOIV. 



1. EUON-STMUS, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, erect rarely scandent, glabrous. Leaves petioled, rarely 

 subsessile ; stipules caducous. Calyx 4-5-fid, spreading or recurved. 

 Petals 4-5. Stamens 4-5, inserted on the disk ; anthers broad, 2-celled. 

 Disk large, fleshy, 4-5-lobed. Ovary sunk in t^e disk, 3-5-celled ; style 

 short or 0, stigma 3-5-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell, attached to the inner 

 angle, ascending and suspended. Capsule 3-5-celled, 3-5-lobed, angled or 

 winged, coriaceous, rarely echinate; cells 1-2-seeded, loculicidal. Seeds 

 covered by the aril, albuminous. DISTBJB. Species about 40 ; natives of the 

 mountainous regions of Tropical Asia and the Malayan Archipelago, a few 

 also scattered over Europe and North America. 



SECT. I. Peduncles 1-3-flowered. 



* Flowers usually 5-merous. Petals fimbriate. 



1. E. javanicus, Blume Bijdr. 1146; peduncles 1-flowered fascicled. 

 Benn. PI. Jav. liar. 130, t. 28. E. sumatranus, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 

 512. E. sphoerocarpus, Hassk. Cat. PL Hort. Bog. 229. 



EASTERN PENINSULA ; from Tenasserim to Penang and Malacca. DISTRIB. Sumatra, 

 Java. 



A tree 30-40 ft. Leaves 4-6 by li-2 in., thick and coriaceous, oblong, elliptic or 

 elliptic-oblong, acute or subacuminate, entire or obscurely crenate-serrate towards the 

 apex. Peduncles f-lf in., terete. Petals oblong, about | in. Fruit f in., obovate- 

 clavate. E. sumafranus, Miq., has fruit 1 in. or more long, but in all other respects it 

 resembles E. javanicus. 



