Gymnosporia.] XLI. CELASTRINE.E. (M. A. Lawson.) 619 



sinuate or lobed. Ovary attached by a broad base, or immersed in the 

 disk, 2-3-celled ; style short, 2-3-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule 

 obovoid, or nearly globose. Seeds 1-2 in each cell, aril completely or par- 

 tially covering the seed, or 0, albumen fleshy; cotyledons foliaceous. 

 DISTKIB. Species 60, natives of the hotter parts of the whole world. 



* Brandies unarmed. 



1. G. acuminata, Hook. f. ; leaves 5-8 by 2-3| in. ovate-oblong 

 acuminate serrate membranous glabrous. Celastrus oxyphylla, Wall. 

 Cat. 4312. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2-5000 ft., J.D.H.; KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft.; EASTERN 

 PENINSULA and BIRMA, Griffith. DISTRIB. Yunan. 



A shrub with somewhat slender branches. Flowers in very delicate fasciculate 

 dichotomous cymes -1 in. long. Petals -^ in., oblong-elliptic, reddish. Fruit ^- in., 

 roundly obcordate, somewhat compressed, 2-celled, 2-seeded, black. 



2. G. neglecta, Wall. Cat. 4341 (under Celastrus) ; leaves 4-6 by 2-2 1 in. 



ovate-elliptic acute or subacuminate entire or very faintly serrate towards 

 the apex very coriaceous glabrous. C. ? attenuata, Wall. Cat. 431 9. 1 Bseo- 

 botrys acuminata, Watt. Cat. 2321. 



NIPAL and SILHET, Wallicli. 



A shrub ? with thick stout branches. Flowers \-\ in. long, in very delicate ^ di- 

 chotomous cymes. Petals as in G. acuminata. Fruit nearly globose, about \ in., 

 light yellow, 3-celled, 1-3-seeded. 



3. G. salicifolia, Laws. ; leaves 3-4 by -|-| in. narrowly lanceolate 

 serrate glabrous. 



ASSAM, Simons. 



A shrub ? with erect slender dark-coloured branches. Flowers in slender di-tricho- 

 tomous cymes l-2 in. long. Petals ^ in., suboval, concave, pinkish-white. Fruit? 



4. G. oblanceolata, Laws.; leaves 3-4 by f-f in- oblanceolate 

 tapering into*the petiole serrate in the upper half coriaceous glabrous, mar- 

 gins revolute in the lower half. 



BIRMA, Griffith. 



A tortuous shrub with smooth blackish branches. Flowers in delicate trichotomous 

 cymes |-1 in. long. Fruit ? 



5. G. puberula, Laws. : leaves 2-2^ by li~l I in. broadly obovate 

 subacuminate serrate-creuate membranous puberulous on the nerves 

 beneath. 



BOMBAY, Law. 



A shrub with stout branches, young branches and peduncles puberulous. Flowers 

 in slender dichotomous cymes 2-3 in. long, which are axillary or fascicled at the ends 

 of short branches. Fruit obovate, 3 in. ? 



6. G. fruticosa, Thwaites Enum. 72 (under Catha) ; leaves f-l by 

 |-| in. oblong-spathulate crenate-serrate glabrous. 



CEYLON ; Central province, &c., Thwaites. 



A shrub, 8-10 ft. ; young branches angular. Flowers in corymbose cymes shorter 

 than the leaves ; pedicels J in., filiform. Fruit J- in., turbinate, reddish brown, with 

 faint transverse striae, 3-celled, cells 1-seeded. Seeds red, shining, aril small, whitish. 

 Very like some of the unarmed forms of G. montana, but it may be known from 

 them by the slender filiform pedicels and the colour of the capsules. 



7. G. ovata, Wall. Cat. 4308 (under Celastrus) ; leaves lf-3 by l|-lf in. 

 roundly ovate or subovate serrate coriaceous glabrous. W. & A. Prodr. 159. 

 Catha ovata, Walp. Ret>. i. 532. 



