Hippocratea.] XLI. CELASTRINEJS. (M. A. Lawson.) 625 



W. & A. Prodr. 104: Dak. & Gibs, Bomb. Fl 32; Thwaites Enum. 52; 

 Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 368; Brand. For. Fl. 83. H. disperma, Vahl 

 En am. ii. 28; Wall. Cat. 4210 in part. H. euonymoides, Vahl Enum. ii. 

 28. H. obtusifolia, Roxb. Wall. Cat. 4211. Tonsella disperma, Poir. 

 Celastrinea ? Wall. Cat. 9013. 



In the hotter parts of INDIA from Behar, the Concan, and Tenasserim southwards, 

 and in CEYLON. UISTRIB. Malay Archipelago and Africa. 



A shrub with climbing branches. Leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, acute or subacu- 

 minate or lanceolate, finely serrate, membranous, glabrous. Flowers glabrous, exceed- 

 ingly small. Cymes many times divided ; partial cymes subumbellate. Petals -^ in., 

 usually 6, elliptic oval-oblong, concave. Ovules 2-4 in. each cell. Fruit oblong. Wall. 

 Cat. 4111 B ? is evidently the same plant. 



7. H. arborea, Koxl. Hort. Eeng. 5 ; Fl. Ind. \. 167 ; Cor. PI. t. 205 ; 

 leaves 4-7 by 2|-3i in., cymes and fruit 3 in. Wall Cat. 4212; DC. 

 Prodr. 569; Brand. For. Fl. 83. ? H. disperma, Wall. Cat. 4212 B. 



Interior parts of INDIA, Roxb. ; BHOTAN and the KHASIA MTS., Griffith ? Morung Mts., 

 Hamilton. 



Subarboreous, with climbing branches. Leaves ovate-elliptic, subacuminate, serrate, 

 membranous, glabrous. Fruit of 3 carpels, cuneiform, 3 by 1| in. This ought probably 

 to be considered a variety of H. Indica, from which it differs apparently iu nothing but 

 size. In the description given by .Roxburgh of H. obtusifolia (Fl. Ind. i. 166) the 

 flowers are those of H. indica proper, while the leaves belong to H. obtusifolia, Wight. 



*** Erect trees. 



8. H. lHaing-ayVZaws. ; cymes 3-flowered, racemose. 



MALACCA, Maingay. DISTRIB. ? Borneo. 



Branches terete. Leaves 3 by f in., lanceolate, glabrous, coriaceous. Carpels tri- 

 quetrous, 4-5 in., woody. Seeds 34-4| in., oblong. . 



12. SALACIA, Linn. 



Scandent or sarmentose shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 

 exstipulate. Flowers few or many, clustered in the axils of the leaves or 

 extra-axillary, more rarely in cyrnes. Calyx small, 5-parted, Petals 5, 

 imbricate. Stamens 3, rarely 2 or 4, continuous with the disk, recurved. 

 Ovary conical, immersed in the disk, 3-celled ; style very short, stigma 

 simple or 3-lobed ; ovules 2-8 in each cell, in 1-2 series, inserted on the inner 

 angle. Fruit baccate, 1-3-celled, sub-woody or fleshy. Seeds large, angular. 

 DISTEIB. (Species about 70, natives of the tropics of both hemispheres. 



* Flowers 1-6 from an axillary or extra-axillary tubercle. 

 a. Leaves coriaceous mostly 6-12 in. 



1. S. flavescens, Kurz inJourn. As'Soc. Beng. 1872, pt. ii. 300 ; leaves 

 6-12 by 2-3| in. oblong-lanceolate acute or subacuminate margins recurved, 

 flowers about 3 very small. Dryptopetalum coriaceum, Arn. in Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. i. 373. Microtropis coriacea, Wall. Cat. 4338. M. longifolia, 

 Wall. Cat. 4339, in part. 



EASTERN PENINSULA, from Tenasserim, Gomez, &c., to Penang, Wallich, &c. 



A small tree with black branches. Leaves green glabrous and shining above, paler 

 beneath, drying light-yellow. Flowers axillary and extra- axillary, sessile or on pedicels 

 under | in. Fruit I The dark stems and light-coloured leaves, together with a general 

 aspect of a Microtropis, serve to distinguish this species from its allies. 



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