208 FLORA OF MADRAS. \_Kurrimia. 



W. G-hats, in the Anamalai Hills and Hills of Tinnevelly and 

 Travancore, in evergreen forests, at 3,000-6,000 ft. 

 -A very large tree with coriaceous conspicuously-nerved large 

 leaves, pale yellow flowers and a capsule with 2 oblong equal 

 (when both fertile) lobes 1-5 in. long. The wood is pale 

 greyish-brown and moderately hard. Vern. Tarn. Kadapla. 



6. Celastrus, Linn. 



Climbing unarmed shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or crenu- 

 late ; stipules or minute and deciduous. Flowers polygamous, 

 in terminal or axillary racemes or panicles. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes 

 imbricate. Petals 5, spreading. Disk broad, concave, 5-lobed. 

 Stamens 5, inserted on the margin of the disk, in $ more or less 

 rudimentary ; filaments short ; anthers oblong. Ovary in <$ 

 flowers rudimentary, conical, 3-lobed ; in $ flowers globose, 

 3-celled ; style short, thick ; stigmas 3, recurved ; ovules 2 in 

 each cell, collateral, erect. Fruit a globose or ovoid, 1-3-celled, 

 loculicidal capsule, 1-6-seeded. Seeds erect, enclosed in a fleshy 

 aril ; testa- chartaceous ; albumen copious, fleshy ; embryo erect 

 with leafy cotyledons. 



CELASTRUS PANICULATA, Willd. ; F. B. I. i. 617 ; W. & A. 158 ; 

 Wt. 111. t. 72, Ic. t. 158. 



In all Districts, chiefly in deciduous forests. 

 A large climbing shrub with ovate or obovate crenulate leaves, 

 small white flowers in pendent panicles and yellow capsules 

 opening to show the brown seeds covered with a scarlet aril. 

 Vern. Hind. Malkagni ; TJr. Korsano ; Kan. Kariganne ; 

 Tarn. Valuluvai. 



7. Gymnosporia, W. & A. 



Shrubs or small trees, usually thorny. Leaves alternate, ex- 

 stipulate. Flowers hermaphrodite, in axillary, solitary or fascicled 

 dichotomous cymes, sometimes on the thorny branchlets. Calyx 

 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, spreading. Disk broad, lobed or sinuate. 

 Stamens as many as petals, inserted below the disk ; filaments 

 slender ; anthers broad. , Ovary attached by a broad base to or 

 sunk in the disk, 2-3-celled ; style usually short ; stigmas 3, 

 capitate or spreading ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit a globose or 

 obovoid 2-3-celled 1-4-seeded capsule. Seeds usually arillate, 



