Glyptopetalum.'] CELASTRACEAE. 203 



2. EUONYMUS ORENULATTJS, Wall.; F. B. I. i. 608; W. & A, 

 161 ; Wt. Ic. t. 973 ; Bedd. PI. t. 144. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiris, Pulneys and the Hills of Travan- 

 core and Tinnevelly ; common in Nilgiri and Pulney Sholas 

 up to 8,000 ft., apparently at lower elevations in Travancore. 

 A small evergreen tree with reddish flowers and a brownish- 

 white, hard, close-grained wood. 



3. EUONYMUS DICHOTOMUS, Heyne ex Wall. ; P. B. I. i. 609 ; 

 W. & A., 160. 



W. Ghats, in the Anamalai, Pulney and Tinnevelly Hills, 

 up to 4,500 ft., Travancore. 



A small evergreen tree with pale green flowers and drooping 

 habit, sometimes planted in Travancore. Vern. Tarn. Yini. 



4. EUONYMUS ANGULATUS, Wt. Ic. t. 1,053 ; F. B. I. i. 610. 

 W. Ghats, in Coorg, Nilgiris below Sispara, about 5,000 ft., 

 Bolampatti Hills of Coimbatore, in evergreen forest. 



A small tree with dull purple flowers, the margins of the 

 leaves thickened. 



5. EUONYMUS SERRATIFOLIUS, Bedd. ; F. B. I. i. 609 ; Bedd. 

 Ic. t, 171. 



W. Ghats of S.-E. Wynaad and Malabar (Carcoor Ghat) 

 at 3,000-5,000 ft., Hills of Travancore. 

 A shrub or small evergreen tree. 



6. EUONYMUS PANICULATUS, Wight; F. B. I. i. 609. E. 

 crenulatus var. laxiflora, Wt. Ic. t. 214 and t. 973 (letter- 



W. Glmts, in the Sivagiri Hills of Tinnevelly. 



2. Glyptopetalum, Thwaites. 



Erect shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite or subalternate, 

 exstipulate. Flowers in axillary or extra-axillary, dichasioid cymes, 

 sometimes reduced to 3 flowers only. Calyx .small, 4-lobed. 

 Petals 4, with 2 pit-like depressions on the upper surface. Disk 

 large, quadrangular. Stamens 4, inserted at the angle of the 

 disk, connective enlarged ; anther-cells divergent. Ovary im- 

 mersed in the disk, 4-lobed, 4-celled ; style short ; stigma minute ; 

 ovule 1 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit a loculicidal 1-4-celled 

 and -seeded subglobose capsule, the walls coriaceous. Seed more 

 or less covered by a red fleshy aril ; testa thick ; albumen fleshy , 

 cotyledons flat, leafy ; radicle superior. 



