608 XLI. CELASTRINE^:. (M. A. Lawson.) [Euonymus. 



2. El. indicus, Heyne in Roxb. Fl. hid. ed. Carey, ii. 409 : peduncles 

 1-3-flowered solitary or geminate. Wall. Cat. 4290; W. & A. Prodr. 160. 

 E. Gougbii, Wight III. i. 178 ; Ic. t. 215 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 47 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. Anal Gen. Lxiii. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; on the Ghats from the Concan southward. 



A shrub or small tree. Leaves 3-4 by 1^-2^ ip., subcoriaceous, ovate or lanceolate- 

 oblong, entire or obscurely serrate at the apex. Peduncles |-2 in., cylimlric, stoutish. 

 Petals nearly orbicular, about in., rust-coloured. Fruit f in., obovoid-clavate. 



** Flowers usually 5-merous. Petals entire. 



3. E. revolutus, Wiyht TIL i. 178 ; leaves H-2 by -*-l in. ovate or 

 roundish to obovate very coriaceous margins revolute, peduncles 1-3- 

 flowered usually geminate, petals in. orbicular flat. Tkwaites Enum. 73 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixiv. 



CEYLON; at Newera Ellia, ascending to GOOD ft. 



A small glabrous tree with subipiadran^ular shoots. Leaves rounded at the apex, 

 entire or obscurely serrate at the apex. 1\ <lunrl< x \ 1 in. cylindrical. Flowers brLht 

 red. Fruit -i- in., turbinate. 



4. E. crenulatus, Wai/. Cat. 4297 ; leaves 2-3 by 1-1 in. elliptic-oblong 

 to subovate coriaceous margins revolute, peduncles 3- or more-flowered, soli- 

 tary, petals 1, in. orbicular flat. W. d> A. Prodr. 101 ; Wiyld Ic. t. 973: 

 Bedd. Fl. ,sy*'. t. cxliv. 



V\'I>TKI:N IV.MNsri.A ; Nilghiri hills, \Viylit, <lv. 



A small glabrous tree: young liraiifhcs lightly crinijtrossod. Leaves crenulate-serrate 

 towards tin.- ajicx. J'i il/mdi-.-s 1 or nmn- in., ci'iujirrssud, usually 3-lln\\ crcd. but smiK 1 - 

 times twice divided and T-llowci-.-d. /',t ,l.t rust-coloured. Fruit \ in., turbinate. Very 

 nearly allied to the last species, of which it may prove to be a variety. 



5. E. Thwaitesii, Lmr*. ; leaves \\ by ',' in. broadly lanceolate subovate 

 acute or blandly subacuminate snbcoriaceoua margins flat or wrinkled, 

 peduncles 1 in. filiform solitary 3-flowered, petals \ in. orbicular with un- 

 dulate margins. 



CEYLON; alt. 2000ft., Wll:< r, Tlnrn'.tc*. 



A small tree with twiggy branchleis and rough dark bark. Leaves entire. 

 Fruit i in., qbovoid, cl,; 



6. E. Walkeri, Wi<jli1 III. i. ITS ; leaves U-4 by ^-l 1 , in. lanceolate to 

 ovate or acuminate subcoriaceous margins flat, peduncles 1-flowered e 



or in subsessile cymes |-| in. in the axils of the upper leaves, petals ,\, in. 

 orbicular with undulate margins. Thwaites Enum. 73; Btdd. Fl. tiylv. 

 Anal. Gen. Ixiv. E. zeylanicus, Moon Cat. 17. 



CEYLON ; ascending to 3000 ft. 



A small tree. Leaves crcnate-serrate towards the apex. Peduncles slender. 

 Flowers almost sessile, exceedingly small. Fruit turbinate. Small-leaved specimens 

 of this species closely ix-M-mbl" //. (Jlrhotomovs, and it is possible that Wii;ht in de- 

 scribing the inflorescence as dichotomously branched may have confounded the two. 



*** Flowers 4-merous. 



7. E. g-randiflprus, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. I ml. ed. Carey, ii. 404; Cat. 

 4282; Tent, Fl. Nep. 41, t. 30; PI. As. liar. iii. 35, t. 254; peduncles 

 2-3 in. slender. E. lacerus, Ham. in Don Prodr. 191 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 5. 

 Lophopetalnm grandiflorum, Ant. in Ann. flat. Hist. iii. 151. L. lucidum, 



mss. 



WI:STT:I;N TKMI-ERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon. alt. 3000 ft. to Nepal. KHASIA 

 MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft., Griffith, &c. 



