210 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Gymnosporia. 



3. GYMNOSPORIA ACUMINATA, Hook. f. ; F. B. I. i. 619. 



E. Ghats, Mahendragiri Hill in Ganjam at 4,500 ft. 



(Gamble) ; Hills of Yizagapatam at 3,500-4,500 ft. (A. W. 



Lushington). 



A large shrub with small straight sharp thorns and rather 



thin leaves. 



4. GYMNOSPORIA HEYNEANA, Lawson ; F. B. I. i. 620. 

 Celastrus Heyneana, W. & A. 159. 



W. Ghats, in N. Nilgiris, Pulneys and Travancore Hills, in 

 dry deciduous forest. 



A shrub with rather large leaves, rather large flowers, and 

 few straight stout thorns. Yern. Tarn. Nandunarai. 



5. GYMNOSPORIA OVATA, Lawson ; F. B. I. i. 619, Celastrus 

 ovata, Wall. ; W. & A. 159. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri and Pulney Hills at 3,000-6,000 ft., 



most frequent in Nilgiris, N. slopes. 



An unarmed shrub with coriaceous, ovate or orbicular 



leaves and very small flowers, in dense fascicles '5 to 1*5 in. 



long. 



6. GYMNOSPORIA EMARGINATA, Lawson ; F. B. I. i. 621. 

 Celastrus emarginata, Willd. ; W. & A. 160. 



N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, in dry deciduous forests, 

 often on laterite, extending west to the slopes of the 

 Nilgiris and Anamalais. 



A shrub with pale leaves, long straight thorns frequently 

 bearing leaves and flowers, whitish-grey bark and white 

 hard wood. Yern. Ur. Gouro kosai ; Tel. Chinta. 



7. GYMNOSPORIA WALLICHIANA, Lawson; F. B. I. i. 621. 

 Celastrus Wallichiana, W. & A. 159. 



Deccan, in Mysore (G. Thomson) ; S. Camatic, in the 

 Thine velly Hills (Wight, Barber, Fischer). 

 A shrub with zigzag branches and long straight thorns 

 frequently bearing leaves and flowers. 



8. Pleurostylia, W. & A. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, entire, coriaceous, 

 exstipulate. Flowers in axillary few-flowered cymes. Calyx 5- 

 lobed, very small. Petals 5. Disk thick, crenulate. Stamens 5, 

 attached below the margin of the disk; filaments short, flat; 

 anthers with the connective broad at the back. Ovary half 



