FLOKA OF MADRAS. 



Family XLIY. CELASTRACEAE. 



Trees or erect or climbing shrubs, sometimes thorny. Leaves 

 opposite or alternate, simple ; stipules caducous or 0. Flowers 

 regular, hermaphrodite or polygamous, usually in dichasia. 

 Calyx small, 4-5-lobed, persistent ; lobes imbricate. Petals 4-5, 

 inserted below the disk or continuous with its margin, imbricate. 

 Disk usually conspicuous, flattened or pulvinate, lobed or entire, 

 rarely 0. Stamens as many as petals and alternate with them, 

 inserted under on or on the margin of the disk ; filaments 

 subulate ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary on the disk or immersed in 

 it, 2-5-celled; style short or 0; stigma simple or lobed; ovules 

 1-2 in each cell. Fruit capsular or drupaceous. Seed usually 

 arillate; albumen fleshy or 0; cotyledons, when present, 

 foliaceous. 



Fruit a dehiscent capsule : 



Leaves opposite, rarely alternate : 



Petals free ; disk flattened, broad, thick, 4-5-lobed : 



Ovules 2 in each cell ; petals not pitted 1. Euonymus 



Ovules 1 in each cell; petals pitted 2. Glyptopetalum. 



Ovules 4 or more in each cell ; petals usually crested 



3. Lophopetalum 

 Petals more or less combined with the annular disk ; ovules 2 in 



each cell 4. Microtropis. 



Leaves alternate : 



Inflorescence paniculate or racemose : 



Flowers hermaphrodite ; large trees ; capsule deeply 2-lobed 



5. Kurrimia. 

 Flowers polygamous ; climbing shrubs ; capsule 1-3-celled 



6. Celastrus. 



Inflorescence axillary, cymose ; small trees or shrubs, often 

 thorny; capsule 2-3-celled 7. Gymnosporia. 



Fruit indehiscent : 



Seeds albuminous, arillate; leaves small, entire; style lateral in 



fruit 8. Pleurostylia . 



Seeds exalbuminous, exarillate; leaves usually crenate; style 



terminal in fruit 9. Elaeodendron. 



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