Gymnosporia.} XLI. CELASTRINEJE. (M. A. Lawson.) 621 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; in Kumaon and Garwhal, alt. 1-4500 ft. ? CONCAN, Stocks. 

 DISTRIB. Affghanistan. 



A shrub with very thorny straight or slightly zigzag branches ; spines slender, 

 -1 in. Leaves serrate. Petals |-& in., white, oblong-ovate. 



** Branches armed. Spines bearing leaves and flowers. 



^ 14. G. Wallichiana, Spreng. Syst. 5, Index 150 (under Celastrus 

 rigida) ; leaves 1-1^ by f-1 in. obovate crenate, fruit turbinate | in. 

 Celastrus Wallichiana, W. & A. Prodr. 159 ; Wall. Cat. 4304. C. rigida, 



Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 396. C. buxifolia, Roxb, Hort. Seng. 

 18. Catha Wallichii, Don Gen. Syst. ii. 10 ; Walp. Rep. i. 532. 



PAXJAB, at Peshawur, Falconer; WESTERN PENINSULA; Courtallam, Wight; Maisor, 

 G. Thomson^ EASTERN BENGAL, Herb. Griffith. 



A shrub with zigzag branches, profusely armed with stout spines 1-3 in. long, 

 coriaceous, glabrous. Cymes shorter than the leaves, axillary and on the spines. 

 1 ; , ',t somewhat inflated, 3-celled ; cells 1-seeded. 



15. C-. emarg-inata, Roth Nov. Sp. 155 (Celastrus) ; leaves 1-2| by 

 |-U in- obovate- cuneate entire, flowers fascicled in'the axis of the leaves 

 'an don the spines, fruit turbinate in. C. emarginata, W. & A. Prodr. 160 ; 



DC. Prodr. ii. 8 ; Wall. Gat. 4305 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind, i. 620 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. 

 PL 39 ; Voigt Hort. Sub. Calc. 166. Catha emarginata, Don Gen. Syst. ii. 9 ; 

 Thwaites Enum. 72; Walp. Rep. i. 532. 



WESTERN PENINSULA. Shuter; Concan,^ Graham ; Anamallay hills, Wight. CEYLON, 

 in hot dry parts of the Island. 



A shrub with stout zigzag branches, profusely armed with spines l-2 in. long. 

 Leaves sometimes broadly ovate, emarginate, very coriaceous. Flowers on slender deli- 

 cate pedicels ^ in. long. Fruit 3-celled, 1-seeded. 



16. G. montana, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 620 (Celastrus) ; leaves 1-3 by -2 in. 

 linear obovate to orbicular-obovate crenulate, cymes rigid divaricating 

 shorter than the leaves, fruit globose in. black 1-3-celled, cells 1-seeded. 

 Celastrus montana, W. & A. Prodr. 159 ; Grah. Cat, Bomb. PL 381 : Wall 

 Cat, 4306 ; Wight Ic. 382 ; Voigt Hort. Sub. Calc. 166 ; Roth Nov. Sp. 154 : 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 9 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. Ixvi. ; Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 48. C. pallida, Wall. Cat, 4307 \ Voigt Hort. Svb. Calc. 167. C. cre- 

 natus, Roth Nov. Sp. 156, not ofForst. 1 C. senegalensis, Lam. ; DC. Prodr. 

 ii. 8; Boiss. Fl. Or. ii. 11 ; Brand. For. FL 81. Catha montana, G. Doii 

 Gen. Syst. ii. 10. 



Throughout the drier parts of CENTRAL, SOUTH-WESTERN, and NORTH-WESTERN 

 INDIA. DISTRIB. Afghanistan ; Central Africa ; Malay Archipelago ; Australia. 



Branches straight, or only slightly zigzag, profusely armed, rarely unarmed. Cymes 

 axillary or borne on the spines, forking many times. Capsules numerous, with the size 

 and look of a pepper corn. Although the extreme forms of this species are very dis- 

 tinct, it is impossible to find characters to limit them. Celastrus faontana, Eoxb., com- 

 prises those forms which have the branches less profusely armed, and the leaves larger 

 and broader ; C. senegalensis, Lam. , those in which the stems are more robust, and 

 profusely armed, and the leaves smaller and narrower. C. pallida, Wall, may prove 

 to be a distinct species. De Candolle regards Koxburgh's and Koth's montana as 

 different species, but I follow Wight and Arnott in uniting them. 



9: K.URRZMIA, Wall. 



Trees, usually quite glabrous, young branches tipped with the deciduous 

 stipules. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate, towards the ends of the 

 branches, coriaceous, entire, shining, peuninerved ; petiole slender. 



