Euonymus.} XLI. CELASTRINE^E. (M. A. Lawson.) 609 



A small branching tree, 12 ft. Leaves 3-4 in., obovate to obovate-oblong, rounded 

 finely and acutely serrate at the apex, shining and dark green above, pale beneath, 

 almost black when dry. Peduncles 3 in., slender, 3-flowered. Flowers in. across. 

 Petals white, nearly orbicular. Fruit ^ in., globose with 4 rounded angles yellow. 

 Seeds black, shining, with a scarlet aril. A very elegant plant both in flower and 

 fruit. 



VAE. Leaves \\ by \ in., oblong-lanceolate, flowers smaller perhaps a distinct 

 species. Bhotan, Griffith. 



8. E. calocarpus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, pt. ii. 299 ; 

 peduncles 1 in. or less stout. 



TEXASSERIM, Heifer. 



A shrub ? with glabrous terete branches. Leaves 4-6 by 2f-3 in., elliptic or elliptic- 

 oblong, acute or subacuminate, entire, subcoriaceous, green above, pale beneath. Flowers? 

 Capsule the size of a cherry, globose, obscurely 4-lobed. Seed 1 in each cell, aril 

 red. Closely resembling a Microtropis in the texture and colour of its leaves. 



SECT. II. Flowers in 7- or more-flowered dichotomous cymes. (See 4. 

 E. crenulatus.) 



* Flowers usually 5-meroiis. 

 t Branches cylindric. 



9. E. dichotomus, Heyne in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 410; 

 leaves 1^-2 in. lanceolate margins entire undulate, peduncles very slen- 

 der, flowers very small. Wall. Cat. 4289 ; W. & A. Prodr. 160 ; Thwaites 

 Enum. 73; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixiii. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Courtallam, Heyne. CEYLON, banks of streams at Galagama, 

 Thwaites. 



A small tree with twiggy branchlets. Cymes nearly as long as the leaves, exceed- 

 ingly slender, but firm. Petals T V in., orbicular, entire, flat. Fruit obconical. 



10. E. g-laber, Roxb. FL Ind. i. '628 ; leaves smooth elliptic-oblong 

 the upper half obtusely serrate, flowers white. Wall. Cat. 4281. ? E. ser- 

 rulata, Wall. Cat. 4296. 



EASTERN BENGAL, Griffith; ?Tavoy, Wall. 



A small tree with smooth shining dark-brown bark. Leaves 2| by 1-2^ in., dark- 

 green above, paler beneath. Peduncles stoutish, 1-2| in. Petals % in., orbicular, 

 margins slightly undulate. Fruit c { 



VAR. Leaves 3-5 in. oblong-elliptic quite entire. Bhotan, Griffith. 



11. E. serratifolius, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixiv. ; Ic. PI. Ind. 

 Or. 37, t. clxxi. ; leaves smooth lanceolate sharply and prominently 

 serrate. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; slopes of the Nilghiris, at Carcom Ghat, alt. 3000 ft., Bed- 

 dome. 



Leaves 3^-4 by f-1^ in., narrow to broad lanceolate, tapering at the apex to a short 

 obtuse point. Petals fa in., orbicular, sub-cordate at the base, crenulate. Fruit glo- 

 bose, with 5 rounded lobes. Apparently closely allied to E. paniculatus, from which 

 it differs chiefly in its longer narrowed and more sharply serrate leaves. 



12. E. paniculatus, lib. Wight; leaves 3|byl|in. smooth elliptic 

 crenate-serrate membranous, flowers purplish. E. crenulata var. laxiflora, 

 Wight Ic. i. 214. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; on the Shivagherry hills, Wight. 



Cymes lax and divaricating, 2 -4 in. Petals orbicular, entire, i in. across. Fruit ? 

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