Kakoow.] XLI. CELASTRINE.E. (M. A. Lawson.) 617 



green above and glabrous, paler beneath and with numerous dark-red glandular dots. 

 Petals broadly ovate. Fruit 1-4 in., bluntly triangular. An oil is expressed from the 

 seeds and used for burning in lamps. Thwaites. 



2. KL. littoralis, Laws. ; leaves entire, petals sublamellate dotless, 

 fruit ovate-lanceolate acute. Trigonocarpus littoralis, Wall. Cat. 6520. 



MALACCA, Maingay; SINGAPORE, Lobb. 



A tall tree, always growing in the water. Leaves 34-4J in., elliptic, dotless. Petals 

 ovate. Fruit 1J-2 in. 



6. FLEUROSTYLIA, Wight. 



A glabrous shrub. Leaves opposite, shortly petioled, entire, exstipulate. 

 Cymes axillary, very short, few-flowered. Calyx small, 4-lobed. Petals 5, 

 much larger than the calyx.. Stamens 5, inserted below the disk ; con- 

 nective dilated at the back. Disk thick, crenulate. Ovary half immersed 

 in the disk, 2-celled or more commonly by abortion 1-celled ; style short, 

 stigma broadly peltate; ovules 2 in each cell, erect. Fruit 1 -2-celled, 

 coriaceous, indehiscent. Seed 1 rarely 2, erect, covered by the arillus-like 

 endocarp, albumen fleshy abundant ; cotyledons orbicular. DISTEIB. 

 Species 1 or 2 ; mountains of India, Ceylon, Mauritius and Madagascar. 



1. P. Wig-htii, W. & A. Prodr. 157; Wight Ic. 155; Thwaites 

 Enum. 71 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 47. P. Heynei, W. & A. Prodr. 157. 

 Celastrus opposita, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 398 ; Cat. 4314; 

 C. ?? Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 4322. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Mountains of Malabar, Nilghiris, Quilon, and Courtallam. 

 CEYLON ; in the hot dry parts of the island. DISTRIB. Mauritius and Madagascar. 



Leaves elliptic-oblong to narrow oblong-lanceolate. 



7. CELASTRUS, Linn. 



Scandent shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled ; stipules minute and deci- 

 duous, or 0. Flowers polygamous, in terminal or axillary panicles or 

 racemes. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5, spreading. Disk broad, concave. 

 Stamens 5, inserted on the margin of the disk. Ovary not immersed in the 

 disk, 2-4-eelled ; style short, stigma 3-lobed, rarely 3-fid with the segments 

 recurved ; ovules 2 in each cell, erect. Capsule globose or obovoid, 

 1-3-celled,, 1-6-seeded. Seeds enveloped in a fleshy aril, albumen fleshy 

 cotyledons foliaceous. DISTRIB. Species scarcely 15, natives of tropical 

 Asia, China, Japan, Australia and North America. 



I. Branches covered with pale lenticular warts. 



1. C. paniculata, Willd. Sp. PL i. 1125; calyx-segments half-orbi- 

 cular, petals s in. obovate-oblong entire/style acute not lobed, fruit 3-celled 

 3-6-seeded, seed in. ovoid brown. Wall. Cat. 4310 ; Roxb. FL Ind. i. 621 ; 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 6; W. & A. Prodr. 158; Wight III. 179, t. 72; Ic. t. 158; 

 Brand. For. FL 82 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 47 ; Thwaites Enum. 72 ; Voigt 

 Hort. Sub. Calc. 166. C. alnifolia, Don Prodr. 190 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 6. C. 

 dependens, Wall. Cat. 4302; Voigt Hort. Sub. Calc. 166. C. multiflora, 

 Roxb. FL Ind. i. 622. C. nutans, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 623; Wall. Cat. 4301. 

 C. Ptothiana, Rosm. & Schult. Syst. v. 423 ; DC- Prodr. ii. 8. C. Metziana, 

 Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1858, 447. Ceanothus paniculatus, Roth Nov. 

 Sp. 154. Scutia paniculata, Don Gen. Syst. ii. 34. 



TROPICAL and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 1-4000 ft., ; PANJAB, and throughout 

 the hilly districts of INDIA, ascending to 3000 ft. ; CEYLON, ascending to 2000 ft. 

 DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago, and Philippine Islds. 



