CELASTRAGE^. 33 



5-inerous ; calyx campanulate, 5-fid. Stamens 5, alternate with 

 sepals ; filaments short free ; anthers subcordate. Germen free sub- 

 cordate ; style short, apex stigmatic obtuse ; cells 2, co-ovulate. 

 Capsule obcordate, loculicidally 2-valvate ; valves septiferous in the 

 middle ; the intermediate septa forming the dissepiment. Seeds co , 

 winged, attached on both sides perpendicular to dissepiment, super- 

 posed in duplex order from the base to the apex. — A glabrous tree ; 

 branches ^ verticillate ; leaves opposite and verticillate petiolate wide 

 obovate entire coriaceous ; flowers ^ in terminal many - flowered 

 corymbs. ^ " [PeruJ^) 



7. Elseodendron Jacq. f I — Flowers of Euonymus ; germen 

 2-5-locular. Ovules in cells 2, ascending. Fruit drupaceous ; flesh 

 sometimes scanty ; cells of hard putamen 1-3, 1- or more rarely 2- 

 spermous. Seeds exarillate; testa thinly membranous or slightly 

 fleshy ; cotyledons of thickly or scantily albuminous embryo flat. — 

 Small trees or shrubs ; leaves (oftener persistent) opposite or more 

 rarely alternate, entire or crenate ; stipules minute, caducous ; 

 cymose inflorescence ^ and other characters of Euonymus, {Asia, 

 Malaya, Oceania, and tropical South AmericaP) 



8. Maurocenia Mill.^ — Flowers nearly of Elmodendron (or 

 Euonymus) 5-6-merous ; stamens exserted. Anthers widely oblong 

 laterally extrorse. Germen oftener 3-locular, free from shout disk; 

 ovules in cells 2, collaterally descending; micropyle introrsely 

 superior. Fruit baccate ; ^ mesocarp finally spongy. Seeds 1 - or 



1 Purplish. —Wight and Arn. Prodr. i. 157.— Wight, III. 



2 Yellowish. t. 71.— GiasEB. FL Brit. W.-Ind. 145.— Hakv. 



3 A very uncertain genus. Query if of this and Sond. FL Cap. i. 465 {Cassine), 467, 469 

 Order ? (Perhaps of SaxifragacecB ?) (Mi/stroxi/lo)]). —Tl'L. Ann. Sc. Nat, ser. 4, viii. 



* Spec. 1. A. verticillata R. etPAV. loc. clt. 106 {Mi/stroxf/lon), 107. — Benth. FL Austral i. 



5 In Act. Ilelvet. i.36.— J. Gen. 452 {Elccodcn- 402.— Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. i. 365.— Reiss. Mart. 



drum). — GiiaiTN. Fruct. i. 274, t. 57. — Lamk. FL Bras. Celastr. 'S2,t. 5. — B-.B-s. Adansonia,xi. 



Diet. iv. 537 ; III. t. 132.— DC. Prodr. ii. 10 267.— Walp. Sep. i. 536, 539 {Cassine) ; v. 402 



(part.).— Endl. Gen. n. 5688.— B. H. Gen. 367, 403 (Cassine); Ann. i. 191; ii. 264; vii. 577 



n. 28.— H. Bn. Pai/er Fam. Nat. 325.— Hook. FL (Cassine), 581. 



Ind. i. 623.— Baker, i?'/. Maurit.i^.—Sihrebera s j)ict. x L. Gen. (ed. 1737), n. 2U.—Cas4ne 



RuTZ. Obs. vi. 25, fig. Z.—Rubeutia Commers. Mill. ex. L. Gen. (ed. ead), n. 845 (nee. alior.). 



ex J. Gen. 378.— Portenscklaffia Trattin. Arch. —J. Gen. 378.— G-^rtn. FrticL ii. 72, t. 92.— 



250.~Neerija Roxb. FLInd. i. &iQ.—Mijstroxij- Lamk. Bid. i. 651 ; Suppl. ii. 130 ; IlL t. 130. 



Ion Eckl. et Zeyh. Enum. 12o.—Crocoxtjlon —DC. Prodr. ii. 11.— B. H. (rm. 363, n. 12.— 



EcKL. et Zeyh. loc. cit. 128.— Lamarckia Hortul. H. Bn. Fai/er Fam. Nat. 325. 



(ex Endl.). 9 Ovoid or globular; epicarp reddish, finally 



^ Flowers white or greenish, dark violet ; mesocarp white. Said to be gene* 



' Spec, about 35 Vent. Jard, Malm, t 117. rally drupaceous. 



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