020 XLI. CELASTRINE^:. (M. A. Lawson.) [Gh/mnosporia. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; Nilghiri Mts., Xoton, &c. 



A shrub, drying blackish. Flowers small, in fasciculate sessile dichotomous cymes 

 \-\ \ in. Fruit broadly obovate, in., drying black, 3-celled ; cells 1-2-seeded. 



VAR. ; stems more slender and straight, leaves oblong narrowed below rounded at 

 the apex not turning blackish when dried. Malabar, W'ujld. 



8. G. Rothiana, W. & A. Prodr. 159 (Celastrus) ; leaves 3-4 by lf-2 in. 

 elliptic or obovate subcuneate at the base coriaceous glabrous. /)./:. <( 

 Gibs. Bomb.FL 47. C. serrulata, Roth Nov. 8j>. l.v, /// part. C. Wallichiana, 

 Wall. Cat. 4304, c in part, Catha Kothiana, W'rtp. Hep. i. 532. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; the Concan and Canara, ffeyne, &c. 



Branches thick and coarse, sometimes armed. Leaves crenulate. Flowers in cymes 

 so reduced that they become sessile and clustered. Fruit obovate, 4 i n -> 3-celled ; cells 

 3-seeded. 



** Branches armed ; spines naked. (See 8. G. Rotliiana.) 



0. G-. rugrulosa, Lmvs. ; leaves 6 by 2. in. oblong subacuminate, 

 fruit \ in. solitary on pedicels f in. obovoid transversely wrinkled. 



MISIIMI Hn.i.s, tirifntli. 



A tree ? brnncln-s with smooth bark, very sparingly armed ; spines very short. Leaves 

 faintly serrate, coriaceous. Flowers ? Fruit 3-celled ; cells 1-seeded. 



10. Cr. Heyneana, W. & A. Prndr. 159 (Celastrus); leaves 3-4 by 



liJ-2.1 in. elliptic crenate-serrate, fruiting cymes :j in. dieliotomous, capsule 

 obovoid .', in. smooth. Celastrus Heyneana, /,'/// /// Htrtn. <(' Schnlt. Synt.v. 

 421 in part ; J)C. I'md,: ii. 7. C. serrulata, Roth Nov. Sp. 155 in part. 

 C. Wallichiana, Spreiifj. in Wall. Cat. 4304 c in part. Catha Heyneana, 

 Walp. Rep. i. 532. 



WESTKKN I'I.MNM i,\. U<i/ne; Pulney Mts., Wight. 



A tree? branches with smooth bl.ickMi bark, spines straight, in. Flowers in 

 axillary dichotomous cymes 2-3 in. r,tals broadly ovate, | in. Fruit turbinate, 

 3-celled, cells 1-2-seeded, drying blackish. 



11. G-. Falconer!, Laws. ; leaves 2 by 1] in. obovate or subelliptic 

 serrate scabrous above pubescent beneath, fruit i in. diam. solitary, 

 on short peduncles or in small dichotomous cymes. - in. long globose 

 smooth 3-celled 1-2-seeded. 



NOKTH -Wi;--r I\ni\. Herb. Falconer. 



A tree ? branches thickish, sparingly armed; spines 4 in- Flowers'? Known from 

 all the other Oymnottporics by its pubescent leaves. 



12. O. rufa, Walt, in Roxb. Fl Ind. ed. Carep, ii. 397 (Celastrus); 

 leaves 3-5 by 1-1 \ in. lanceolate acuminate serrate subcoriaceous glabrous, 

 cymes 1-2 in. capillary dicliotomous fascicled, fruit J-j in. obtriangular 

 3-celled, cells 1-seeded. Celastrus rufa, Cat. 4309 ; Brand. For. FL 80. 

 Catha rufa, Don Gen. tiyst. ii. 10; II '<*//>. Up. i. 532. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon, alt. 2-5000 ft., to Sikkim and Bhotan, alt. 

 3-6000 ft. KHASIA Mrs., alt. 2 4800 ft. 



A large branching tree, with slender sparingly-armed branches ; spines slender, 

 4-1 in. Leaves green above, pale beneath. Flowers small. Petals T V in. Fruit pale- 

 yellow inside. Seeds black. 



13. G. Royleana, Wall. Cat. 4317 (Celastrus); leaves 1-1| by f-1 in. 

 ovate to obovate glabrous, cymes dichotomous shorter than the leaves, 

 fruit turbinate -| in. diam. 3-celled, cells 1-seeded. C. spinosus, Royle 

 III. 157; JSoiss. FL Orient, ii 11 ; Brand. For. FL 80. 



