C22 XLI. CELASTRINE^:. (M. A. Lawson.) [Kurrimia, 



Flowers in simple or paniculately disposed racemes. Calyx 5-fid or-lobed, 

 recurved. 'Petals 5^ inserted under the margin of the disk, spreading or 

 recurved. Stamens inserted with the petals. Disk fleshy, 5-lobed. Ovary 

 free, glabrous or puberulous at the base, crowned at the top with a tuft of 

 hairs ; styles 2 filiform, stigmas small capitate ; ovules 2 in each cell, erect. 

 Capsule entire or 2-lobed, 1-2-celled, dehiscing slowly with 2 valves, 1-2- 

 seeded. Seeds erect, completely or partially covered by a fleshy aril, 

 albumen abundant fleshy; cotyledons linear-oblong. DISTKIB. India, 

 Ceylon, Malayan Peninsula. 



* Flowers in simple spikes. 



1. X. pulcherrima, Watt. Cat. 4334 ; petals elliptic-oblong ^ in., disk 

 slightly puberulous forming a shallow crenate cup round the glabrous base 

 of the ovary, fruit narrowly oblong. K. calopbylla, Wall. Cat. 4335. K. 

 robusta, Kurz mss. Rhesa Moja, ll-nn. mss.ex Arn. /'// AW. /'////. Jouni xvi. 

 315 ; Walp. Rep. i. 538. Celastrus robustus, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 626. Nothoc- 

 nestis sumatrana, Miq. Fl. Intl. lint. S>i}>},l. i. 531. 



The KITASIA Mrs., SM.HKT an.l PinTTAOOKo; ascending to 3000ft. ; BIRMA, Griffith; 

 TENASSERIM, Heifer; SINCAPOIM:, Wu'licli. iM-nni!. Sumatra. 



A tree. Leaves 4-7 by 1-2 in., oblong-lanceolate, acute or .-icuminate, glossy above. 

 Spikes glabrous. Fruit l-2 in., the apex often produced into a beak, 'l -celled, 

 1-seeded. 



2. K.. IVIaing-ayi, Laws. ; petals ^ in. linear-oblong, disk puberulous 

 forming a crenate cup round the puberulous ovary, fruit broadly oblong 

 acute. 



SINGAPORE, Mdingay. 



A tree. Leaves 5-9 by 3^-4 in., elliptic-oblong. ty/Vyx glaucous. Fruit 1-1^ in. 

 Closely allied to the last species, of which it may prove to be a variety. 



** Flowers in panided spikes or racemes. 



3. K,. paniculata, JJV/. Cat. 4336; fruit f- in. unequally 2-lobed, lobes 

 diverging. Jlln-sa jKiniculata, Arn. 'in E<1. Phil. Journ. XVL 315; Walp. 

 Eep. \. 538. Trochisandtra indica, Ifald. Fl. ,v///<'. t. 120; /-'/. ,S///y. Anal. 

 Gen. Ixvii. ryrospermum calophyllum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Siq^l. i. 402. 



PENANG, Wallich, &c. ; SINGAPORE, Maingay ; abundant in Anamallay Hills, Bed- 

 dome DlBTRXB. Sumatra. 



A tree. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 6-12 by 2-3 in. Flowers shortly pedicellate, in 

 stoutish paniculate racemes. Petals obovate- oblong, flat. 1 >ixl; lobcd, glabrous. Ovary 

 glabrous beneath the tuft of hairs. J-'nn't with the smaller lobe abortive, the larger 

 1-seeded. I have seen no specimen of Beddome's Trochisandra indica, but from his 

 description and figure I am not able to distinguish it from the above. 



4. K. foipartita, Laws. ; fruit li in. divided nearly to the base into 

 2 equal nearly parallel lobes. 



WESTEKX PENINSULA; Shi vagherry hills, Wight. 



Leaves 3-8 by l|-3 in., elliptic-oblong. Panicles stoutish. Flowers? Fruit-lobes 

 narrowly oblong, rounded at the apex, black, 1-seeded. Seed not half covered by the aril. 



5. XL. ceylanica, Arn. Pug. in Act. A>-<?. Xat. Cur. xviii. pt. i 328; 

 fruit f in. elliptic or elliptic-oblong not lobed. Thwaites Enum. 72 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 147. 



CEYLON ; warm moist parts of the island. 



