36 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



13. Pleurostylia Wight and Arn. 1 — Flowers 4, 5-merous ; 

 sepals 2 imbricate. Petals longer imbricate. Stamens 5 alternipe- 

 talous ; filaments interior to lobe of disk and alternate with tliem ; 

 anthers snbbasifixed, introrse ; connective iucrassately dilated at back 

 (dark). Germen free, immersed at base in cavity of receptacle ; 

 style short, apex stigmatic 3-gonal or unequally dilated ; cell in germen 

 1, eccentric ; ovules in coll 2, ascending ; raphe dorsal. Fruit slightly 

 fleshy, finally dry, marked with eccentric scar of style, Seeds 1 or 

 more rarely 2 ; testa coriaceous, externally clothed with pulp (aril ?) ; 

 albumen copious ; cotyledons of rather large embryo wide suborbicu- 

 late. — A glabrous shrub ; leaves opposite entire coriaceous ; flowers 3 

 in axillary cymes. [East Indies, New Caledonia, Malacca.*) 



14. Cathastrum Tuecz. 5 — Flowers nearly of Pleurostylia; sepals 

 and petals 5, imbricate. Stamens 5, exterior to thin 5-gonal disk ; 

 anthers short introrse. Germen free oblique ; style short, apex stig- 

 matic subpeltate ; ovules in eccentric cell co (6-8), inserted in 2 series 

 in parietal placenta, ascending. Fruit . . . ? — A glabrous shrub; leaves 

 opposite oblong, entire or undulate ; stipules minute, flowers in 

 axillary or subterminal compound ramose corymbiform cymes ; pedi- 

 cels articulate at base, 2-bracteolate. (South Africa?') 



15. Celastrus L. 7 — Flowers (nearly of Euonymus) hermaphrodite 

 or 1-sexual ; receptacle very various in form, shortly convex, subplane 

 or more or less concave cupular or suburceolate. Disk very various 

 in form, lining the receptacle, or flattened, 4-5-lobcd (Gh/mnosporia, 6 ) 

 or thick cupular sinuate-lobed (Denhamia, 9 ) or more or less concave, 

 obconical or urceolate. Sepals 4, 5 and petals same in number 

 alternate, longer, inserted at margin of receptacle, more or less peri- 



1 Prodi: i. 157.— Endl. Gen. n. 5G86.— B. H. 167, t. 36.— A. Gray, Gen. 111. t. 170.— B. H. 



Gen. 363, n. 14.— H. B.w Payer Fam. Nat. 325.— Gen. 364, 977, n. 16.— Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 617.— 



Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 617.— Baker, Fl. Maurit. 49. Baker Fl. Maurit. 60— H. Ex. Payer Fam. Nat. 



"■ Minutely glandular. 324 (incl. : Daihamia Meissx. Gymuosporia 



3 Small and few, white. Wight and Arn. Mai/tenus Feuill. Ptitter- 



4 Spec, about 2. Wight, Icon. t. 155.— Tul. UeTcia Endl.). 



Ann. Se. Nat. sér. 4, viii. 104 (Pkurostylia).— s Wight and Arn. Prodi: i. 159.— B. H. Gen. 



WjlLT. Hep. i. 636 ; Ann. vii. 577. 365, n. 18; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 618.— Catha 



6 Bull. Mose. (1858), ii. 448 B. H. Gen. Endl. Gen. n. 5678. (not Forsk.)— Encentrus 



3C2 > n. 7. Phesl, Bot. Bun. 33.— Polyanthus Presl, 



6 Spec. 1. C. capense Trara.— Hahv. and he. cit. 



Bond. Fl. Cap. i. 527.— Walp. Ann. to. 576. 9 Meissn. Gen. 18; Obmm. 16.— Endl. Gen. 



7 Gen.n. 270.— J. Gen. 378.— Gjertn. Fruel.i. n. 5065.— B. H. Gen. 36G, 997, n. 23.— Leuco- 

 t.95.— Lamk. Diet. i. 660; Suppl. ii. 143; III carpon A. Etch. Voy. Astrol. Bot. 46, t. 46.— P 

 t. 130.— DC. Prodr. ii. 5.— Spach. Suit, à Buffon, Eedraianthcra F. Mubll. Fragm. v. 58. 



U. 410.— Endl. Gen. n. 5679.— Payer, Oryanng. 



