Solatia.] XLI. CELASTRINE.E. (M. A. Lawson.) 629 



20. S. floribunda, Wight III. i. 134 ; flowers small umbellate in di-tri- 

 chotornous cymes. S. densiflora, Wall. Cat. 4224. S. longifolia, Wall. Cat. 

 4225. S. pomifera, W. & A. Prodr. 105. ? non Wall. 



SILHET, De Silva; ASSAM and the KHASIA MTS., Griffith, &c. ; TENASSERIM, at 

 Mergui, Griffith. 



A scandent shrub. Leaves 3-6 hy |-2f in., elliptic-lanceolate, shortly and obtusely 

 acuminate, serrate, subcoriaceous, shining. Petals orbicular. Ovules 2 in each cell. 

 fruit 1J in. diam., globose, black. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



S. latifolia, Wall. Cat. 4222 ; leaves 2|-3 by lf-2 in., flowers? 

 fruit ripe? the size of a cherry pyriform smooth. 

 SINGAPORE, Wallich. 



13. SIFHONODON, Griff. 



A small glabrous tree. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, entire or cre- 

 nate ; stipules minute, deciduous. Peduncles axillary, short, 3-4-flowered. 

 Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5, spreading. Disk not distinct from the base of the 

 calyx. Stamens 5, connivent round the pistil, filaments flattened. Ovary 

 half immersed in the disk, conical, the summit hollowed out and stigma- 

 tose in the cavity round a central column, cells numerous in 2-4 series ; 

 ovules solitary in each cell, ascending and pendulous. Drupe globose, hard 

 and fleshy, with numerous 1-seeded bony stones superposed in rings round 

 the central axis, testa membranous, albumen sub-horny. DISTKEB. Species 

 2 ; Malayan Peninsula, Java, Australia. 



Mr. Bentham in his Flora Australiensis remarks that the ovary must probably be 

 regarded as being 5-celled, with many ovules in each cell separated by spurious trans- 

 verse dissepiments. 



1. S. celastrineus, Griff, in Cole. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 247, t. 14; 

 Wall. Cat. 9019 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Eat. i. pt. ii. 592; Hook.f. in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxii. t. 26. Astrogyne coriacea, Wall. mss. 



PEGU, Kurz ; PENANG, Griffith. DISTRIB. Java. 



Leaves 4-8 by 2-2^ in., oblong or oblong-elliptic, acute or subacuminate, crenate- 

 serrate, coriaceous. Peduncles under 1 in. Flowers yellowish. Fruit globose, 1-1 ^ in. 



ORDER XLIL RHAMNEJE. (By M. A. Lawson, M.A., F.L.S.) 



Shrubs or trees, erect or scandent (cirrhose in Gouania). Branches un- 

 armed spinous or aculeate. Leaves simple, alternate (opposite or sub- 

 opposite in Scutia and Sageretia] usually coriaceous, often 3-5-nerved ; sti- 

 pules small, deciduous or changed into prickles. Flowers hermaphrodite or 

 polygamous, small, greenish, in lax or dense axillary cymes, which are 

 solitary or disposed in spikes or panicles. Calyx 4-5-fid ; lobes triangular, 

 erect or recurved, usually carinate within, valvate. Petals 4-5, rarely 0, 

 inserted on the throat of the calyx-tube, usually shorter than its lobes, 

 cucullate or involute. Stamens 4-5, inserted with the petals and opposite 

 to them, often enclosed within their folds ; anthers versatile, 2-celled, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Disk fleshy and filling the calyx-tube, or thin 

 and lining it, entire or lobed, glabrous, rarely tomentose. Ovary sessile, 

 free or immersed in the disk, wholly free from the calyx- tube or more or 



