CELASTRACE^. 89 



longer miioli imbricated, often finally recurved at apex. Stamens 5, 

 alternipetalous ; filaments inserted between the lobes of 5-gonal disk 

 and exterior to them subulate ; anthers short introrse. Germen 

 immersed in base of disk, 3-gonal-pyramidal, 3-locular ; style 

 short, apex stigmatic variously 3-lobed or 3-gonal. Ovules in cells 

 2, ascending; micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit capsular sub- 

 membranous or subfleshy, 3-6-alate, loculicidally 3-valved ; valves 

 inwardly septiferous in the middle ; wings simple or 2 -fid to apex 

 Seeds ascending, either included in a membranous aril {Aster ocar pus) ^ 

 or exarillate compressed and marginately alate {Feripterygia}) ; 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of (green) embryo linear or elliptic ; 

 radicle rather long inferior. — Glabrous trees or shrubs; branches 

 angular ; leaves alternate coriaceous obovate ; stipules very small 

 glanduliform or ; flowers in axillary or terminal ramose-compound 

 often corymbiform cymes. [South Africa New Caledonia?') 



20. Kurrimia Wall.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle sub- 

 plane or cupular. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, longer, imbricate, 

 open -recurved. Stamens 5, inserted with alternate petals under the 

 margin of disk lining the receptacle ; filaments subulate ; anthers 

 introrse or laterally or 6xtrorsely dehiscent. Germen immersed 

 within disk ; cells 2, incomplete, or complete ; styles 2, filiform, 

 springing from woolly apex of germen, more or less twisted or corru- 

 gate in the bud, capitellate at stigmatic apex ; ovules in cells 2, 

 collaterally ascending subbasilar. Fruit capsular coriaceous, indehig- 

 cent or 2-valved; seeds elongate, enclosed in fleshy aril; testa 

 smooth glossy ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of axile embryo linear- 

 elongate. — Glabrous trees ; leaves alternate petiolate entire 

 coriaceous penninerved ; veins transverse ; stipules deciduous ; 

 flowers ■* in axillary and terminal racemes, simple or ramose. {South 

 Tropical Asia, Malaya,^) 



21. Perrottetia H. B. K.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite orpolygamo- 

 dioecious (nearly o^ Euonymus or Celastrus)^ 5-merous; petals valvate 



^ H. Bn. Adansonia, xi. 266. ^ White, " yellowish. Capsules brown. Aril 



2 Spec. 7, 8. Harv. and Sond. FL Cap. i. white or reddish." 



461. 5 Spec, about 3. Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 72.— 



3 Cat. n. 4334.— Arn. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. Walp. Rep. i. 538 {Bhesa). 



xviii. 328.— B. H. Gen. 365, n. 20.— H. Bn. ^ Nov. Gen. et Spec, vii., 73, t. 622.— Endl. 



Payer Fam. Nat. 325.— Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 621.— Gen. n. 5697.— B. H. Gen. 367, n. 29.—? Thca- 



Bhesa Ham. Fdinb. New Phil. Joum. xvi. 315 phT/llum '^vtt. {exTvncz.). —CaryospermumBT.. 



(part.).— Endl. Gen. n. 5692.—Pyrospermum Mus. Lu^d.-Bat, i. 176,— B, H. Gen. 367, n. 27, 

 MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. Suppl. 402. 



