XLI. CELASTRINE^E. (M. A. Lawson.) Gil 



19. E. fimbriatus, Wdl. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey -, ii. 408; 

 Cat. 4287 ; leaves ovate-acuminate biserrate membranous, fruit with 

 4 tapering wings. ? E. micranthus, Don Prodr. 191. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon, alt. 8-10,000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 10-12,000 ft., 

 J. D. H. 



A tree? Leaves 1^-3 by \-l\ in., elegantly fringed with sharp deep hiserratnres, 

 dark-green. Peduncles 2-3 in.; pedicels branching subumbellately. Petals -^ in., 

 white, broadly ovate, entire. Fruit leathery, the pize of a cherry. the woodcut given 

 in Paxton's Flower Garden, ii. 55, t. 316, can hardly belong to this species; the leaves 

 resemble more those of E. pendulus or E. frigidus. 



20. E. frigidus. Watt, in Roxb. FL Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 409 ; Cat. 4288 ; 

 adult leaves 3-5 by f-1^ in. oblong-lanceolate acuminate somewhat sharply 

 serrate, fruit with 4 long tapering wings. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 8-12,000 ft., J.D.H.; BHOTAN, Griffith; KUMAON, Wallick. 



A small tree ? young shoots succulent, lowers very small, on weak succulent fili- 

 form peduncles and pedicels, the latter 4 in- long. Petals orbicular, entire. Fruit as 

 in the last species. 



VAR. Apparently a shrub, leaves 1 ft. by ^ in. faintly and distantly serrate. 



tt Style manifest. 



a. Fruit armed with spines. 



21. E. cinereus, Laws. ; branches rough with minute tubercles, leaves 

 obovate, fruit f in. globose armed with pale-coloured spines. 



EAST BENGAL, Griffith. 



Scandent? Branches destitute of rootlets. Leaves 2| by l\ in., broadly obovate, 

 rounded at the apex, serrate, pale-coloured. Flowers ? 



22. E. echinatus, Watt, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 410; 

 Cat. 4285 ; branches smooth radicant, leaves ovate-lanceolate, fruit % in. 

 globose armed with dark-coloured spines. Royle III. t. 31 ; Bot. Mag. 

 2767 ; Voigt Hort. Sub. Cak. 165 ; Brand. For. Fl. 80. E. scandens, Graham 

 in Jameson's Ed. New. Phil. Journ. 1827, 386. G. vagans, Wall. Cat. 4284, 

 in part. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Garwhal to Sikkim, alt. 7-10,000 ft. 



Climbing over trees and rocks, to which the stems adhere by means of dense adven- 

 titious rootlets. Leaves 1-2 by ^-| i n -> serrate, dark-green above, pale beneath. 

 Peduncles mostly 3 times divided. Petals fa in., orbicular, crenulate. Style -^ in. 



b. Fruit unarmed. 



23. E. vag-ans, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed~ Carey, ii. 412; Cat. 4284, 

 in part; stem climbing, leaves 1-2 by - in. ovate-lanceolate serrate, fruit 

 the size of a pea nearly black minutely tubercled. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; Sikkim and Nipal, Wallich, &c. 



Branches smooth and never radicant. This and the smooth fruit are the only charac- 

 ters by which to distinguish this species from the last. In Bot. Mag. 54, t. 2767, Sir 

 W. Hooker suggested that it might be a variety only, and he founded this opinion on 

 the circumstance that he believed he had seen a tendency in some of the fruits of E. 

 vagans to become echinate. 



24. E. G-riffithii, Kurzin Journ.' As. Soc. Beng. 1872, pt. 2, 73; stem 

 scandent acutely 4-angled or -winged,.- leaves 3-4 by 1-1| in. ovate or 

 oblong-lanceolate. Hippocratea angulata, Griff. Notul. iv. 473 ; Ic. PI. 

 As. iv. t. 581, f. i. 



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