612 i. CELASTRINE^:. (M. A. Lawson.) [Euonymus. 



BIRMA; on rocks at Loonkaram and Delvi Nempean on the north from Assam, 



Leaves sessile or subsessile, serrate, subbullate. Peduncles twice divided. Petals 

 T V in., white, orbicular, entire, shortly clawed. Style -^in. Fruit? 



25. E. theaBfolius, Wall. Cat* 4293 ; a small erect shrub, branches 

 terete, leaves 2-3 by |-H in. ovate or oblong-lanceolate coriaceous. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Nipal, Wattich; Sikkim, alt. 5-8000 ft., /. D. H. ; 

 KHASIA Mrs., alt. 4-6000 ft., Griffith, &c. 



Peduncks about twice divided, short, slender. Petals reddish, orbicular, entire, 

 & in. Style ^ in. Fruit the size of a large pea, nearly round, obscurely 4-angled, 

 1-seeded. 



26. E. pendulus, Watt, in Roxb. Fl. Intl. ed. Carey, ii. 406; 

 Cat. 4280 ; a small tree with slender pendulous branchlets, leaves 4-6 in. 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate sharply serrate coriaceous smooth and shilling 

 above, petals fimbriate. Brand. /V. /'/. 7!). E. lucidus, Don Prodr. I'.U 

 ? DC. Proilr. ii. 4. E. jupouieus, Wall, in R.,-b. Fl. J nd. ed. Caret/, ii. 

 405 (not Thunb.). 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Garwhal, Falconer, to Nipal, Wattich; EAST BKM;AL, 

 Grift //. 



tranches terete. Peduncles much compressed, fasnVl.-d. Pital* 4, | in., white, 

 ovate-oblong, linil.riatr. -V<////. n and ,s////. ,\ in. Fruit }, in., obtxiangalar, with 4 layer- 

 ing wings. This is .[uiir distinrt I'n.in E. japonicus, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 100, of which 

 there is a good plate in AV////</'. Jc. Select, t. 8. 



27. E. Hamiltonianus, Wall, in Roxb. Fl ///</. ?d. Carey, ii. 403 ; 

 Cat. 4279; a shrub with terete branches, leaves 3-(> in. ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate very finely serrate membranous, pi-tals entire. Brand. For. Fl. 

 78, t. xvi. E. atropurpureus, Roth. Fl. //></. i. (\-i~ ("<>" Jacq.). 



TKMI'I:KAII: HIM M.AVA, alt. 5-6000 ft., from Kashmir, Falconer, to Kumaon, Strach. 

 ( (- \\"n,t.; KHASIA MTS., alt. 5-6000 ft., Griffith, &C. 



Peduncles about 7-flowered. 1'iinl.* ,' ; in.. cordateJanoeolate with revolute margins. 

 Stamens and stijk J in. Fruit turbinate, 4-lobed. 



2. OliVPTOPETAliUM, Thwaites. 



Erect shrubs or small trees, glabrous. Leaves opposite, petipled, ex- 

 stipulate. Cym>-x 3- or more-fit >\veml. (. '<(/</.< witli 4 short spreading lobes. 

 Petals 4, with 2 pit-like depressions on the upper surface. Stamens 4, in- 

 serted above the disk ; the connective dilated ; anther-cells diverging. 

 Jjitk 4-lobed. Ovary immersed in the disk, 4-lobed, 4-celled ; style short, 

 stigma capitate ; ovules solitary and pendulous from the top of each cell. 

 Capsule subglobose, coriaceous, 1-4-celled, 1-4-seeded. Seeds as in 

 Euonymm.Disxmv. Species 3. Ceylon, Southern India, and Malayan 

 peninsula. 



1. G-. zeylanicum, Thwaites in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 268, t. vii. B ; 

 Enum. 73; leaves 4^-6 by 1^-2| in., cymes not half as long as the leaves. 

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



WESTERN PENINSULA; Anamallay hills, Beddome; CEYLON, in the Central province, 

 alt. 3000 ft., Thwaites. 



A large shrub or tree, 30-40 ft. Leaves subconaceous or membranous, oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate or elliptic, serrate or entire. Cymes short, robust, 2-3 times divided, 

 supra-axillary. Petals | in., oblong. Fruit the size of a small cherry, greenish, smooth; 

 pedicels 4 in-, straight. 



