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XLVII. STAPHYLEACEJE. 



1. TURPINIA, Vent. 



1. T NEPALENSIS, Wall. A tree; leaves opposite unequally 

 pinnated ; leaflets 3 to 5-oblong lanceolate acuminated, coriaceous ; 

 flowers white, in opposite panicles ; berry of the size of a large pea, 

 scarcely fleshy, 3-celled ; cells 1 to 3-seeded. Wight Ic. t. 972. 

 Parwar Ghaut. 



XLVIII. CELASTRACEJE. 

 1. PLEUROSTYLIA, W. and A. 



1. P WIGHTII, W. and A. Prod. 1, 157. A shrub ; leaves 

 elliptic-oblong, entire whitish, opposite, shortly-petioled ; peduncles 

 axillary and terminal, very short, few-flowered, fruit small, in- 

 dehiscent, 1 to 2-celled. The Ghauts, Wight Ic. t. 155. 



2. EUONYMUS, Linn. 



1. E GOUGHII, Wight Ic. t, 215. Shrubby, glabrous, ramuli 

 compressed ; leaves somewhat triple-nerved, shortly-petioled, quite 

 entire, oblong, ovate, acute at both ends, peduncles axillary, short, 

 1 to 3-flowered ; petals 5, orbicular, fringed. Mangellee Ghaut. 



3. CELASTRUS, Linn. 



1. PANICULATA, Willd. sp. i, p 1 125. A climbing unarmed 

 shrub ; leaves alternate, broadly oval, or ovate or obovate, with a 

 sudden short acumination, slightly serrated, glabrous ; racemes 

 terminal, compound, elongated, erect or pendulous ; flowers white ; 

 capsule globose, 3-celled, 3 to6-seeded. Common on the Ghauts 

 and in the Concans. The ghaut variety has an erect abbreviated 

 panicle; oil is extracted from the seeds for burning and for 

 medicine used in rheumatism. Maratha name " Kangoonee." Roxb. 

 Fl Ind. i, 621 ; Syn. C nutans Roxb. loc. cit. ; C rothiana, Schult ; 

 DC. Prod. 2, p 8 ; Ceanothus paniculata Heyne in Roth. nov. 

 sp. p 154; Scutia paniculata, Don in Mill. Diet, ii, 34 ; Wight 

 Illust. i, .72; Ic. PL t. 158. 



2. ROTHIANA, W. and A. Prod, p 159. A shrub unarmed; 

 leaves coriaceous, glabrous, broadly obovate, crenate, serrated, 

 euneate at the base, and tapering suddenly into the petiole; cymes 

 much shorter than the leaves, dichotomous, fascicled from the 

 tubercles of the older branches ; capsules turbinate, 3-lobed, bright 

 red when ripe, each lobe the size of a pea. Jungly hills in the Con- 

 can and Ghauts, common. Syn. C serrulata, Roth. nov. sp. p 156. 



