CELASTRINEJS 



343 



foliaceous, ovate or oblong-ovate, obtuse, flat, applied to each other 

 face to face, pale green, 4-25 mm. long, 8 mm. broad; radicle 

 cylindrical, obtuse, 1'25-1'5 mm. long. 



Seedling (fig. 243). 



Primary root tapering, flexuous, giving off flexuous lateral 

 rootlets. 



Hypocotyl woody, erect, terete, glabrous, deep green, with 

 scattered white points and short lines, about 3-8 cm. long. 



Cotyledons large, foliaceous, oval-oblong, rounded at the end, 

 alternately penninerved and reticulate, petiolate, glabrous, deep 

 green above, pale beneath, cori- 

 aceous, rather persistent ; lamina 

 21 cm. long, 1*3 cm. broad ; petiole 

 grooved above, 2-5 mrn. long. 



Stem woody, erect, subangled, 

 deep green, glabrous, marked with 

 white spots (lenticels) ; 1st inter- 

 node 1'5 cm. long ; 2nd 3'5 mm. 



Leaves simple, serrulate, cauline, 

 opposite, stipulate, petiolate, gla- 

 brous, irregularly penninerved, reti- 

 culate, deep green above, paler be- 

 neath ; petioles semiterete, grooved 

 above ; stipules very small, lacerated, 

 brownish. 



1st pair lanceolate-elliptic, acute, 

 irregularly serrulate. 



2nd pair similar but smaller. 



Ultimate leaves ovate-oblong or 

 oblong, suddenly narrowed at both 

 ends, or lanceolate-elliptic, tapering 

 to both ends and acute, slightly 

 irregularly crenate-serrulate, gla- 

 brous, deep green above, paler 

 beneath. 



FIG. 244. 

 Maytenus boaria. 



Celastrus paniculatus, Willd. 



Ilypocotyl woody, erect, terete, densely pubescent, soon becom- 

 ing brown, To cm. above the soil. 



Cotyledons foliaceous, oblong, obtuse, more or less distinctly 

 emarginate, petiolate, coriaceous, obscurely penninerved with alter- 

 nate, ascending nerves, glabrous, green above, much paler, almost 



