LXIII. CELASTEINE.E. 



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Elton y m u. i. 

 Seed with its aril (mag.). 



E. latifolius. 

 Pemlulous ovules (mag.). 



K. linifoliuf. 

 Upright ovules (mag.). 



COROLLA polypetalous, perigynous, isostemonous, aestivation imbricate. PETALS 

 4-5, inserted on a fleshy disk, surrounding the ovary and occupying the bottom of the 

 calyx. STAMENS 4-5, inserted like the petals. OVARY 2-3-5 -celled, cells l-2-ovuled. 

 OVULES ascending or erect, anatropous. FRUIT dry or fleshy. SEEDS usually arillate, 

 albuminous. STEM woody. LEAVES simple, stipulate. 



Small TREES or SHRUBS, often climbing. LEAVES alternate, or rarely opposite, 

 simple, entire or tootlied, often coriaceous ; stipules small, very caducous. FLOWERS 

 $ , or unisexual, regular, axillary, cymose, small, greenish or reddish. CALYX 4-5-fid 

 or -partite, segments equal, imbricate in aestivation, persistent. DISK fleshy, 

 annular or orbicular, lining the bottom of the calyx, and sometimes adnate to the 

 ovary. PETALS 4-5, alternate with the sepals, inserted under the edge of the 

 disk by a broad base, sessile, imbricate in aestivation, deciduous. STAMENS 4-5, 

 inserted under, on, or within the edge of the disk ; filaments short ; anthers in- 

 trorse, erect, fixed by the base or back, connective often dilated, dehiscence longi- 

 tudinal. OVARY sessile, more or less buried in the disk, and sometimes adhering to 

 it by its base, of 2-3-5 1-2-many-ovuled cells ; style short, thick ; stigma of 2-3-5 

 lobes ; ovules usually 2, collateral, erect or ascending, with a ventral raphe, some- 

 times pendulous, and then with a dorsal raphe (rarely many-2-seriate). FRUIT 2-5- 

 celled, sometimes an indehiscent drupe or samara with 1-seeded cells, sometimes a 

 loculicidal capsule with semi-septiferous valves. SEEDS erect or ascending, usually 

 furnished with a pulpy coloured sometimes very much developed and cupular aril ; 

 testa crustaceous or membranous, traversed by a longitudinal raphe. EMBRYO 

 straight, occupying the axis of a fleshy copious albumen ; cotyledons foliaceous, flat ; 

 radicle cylindric, inferior. 



[Disposition of the tribes and genera of Celastrinece in the c Genera Plantarnm,' 

 including Hippocrateacece, which are omitted in the original of this work : 



TRIBE I. CELASTRE^E. Stamens 4-5, very rarely 10, inserted (except Sclicefferia) on or 

 beneath the margin of a conspicuous disk. Filaments subulate, often incurved. Seeds 

 albuminous (exalbuminons in Hartogia, KoJcoona, and some species of Maytenus). Euonymus, 

 Microtropis, Maytenus, Eheodendron, Catha, Lophopetalum, Gymnosporia, Perrottetia, Kokoona, 

 Hartoyia, Kurrimia, Cassine, Celastrus, Myginda. 



TRIBE II. HIPPOCRATIE.E (order Hippocrateacece, Endl., Lindl.). Stamens 3, rarely 2, 4, or 

 8, inserted on the face of the disk ; filaments flattened, recurved, sometimes adnate to the disk ; 

 anthers extrorse from the reflexion of the filaments. Seeds exalbuminous. Leaves usually 

 ouposite. Hippocratia, Salacia. ED.] 



