CELASTRACE2E. 41 



fleshy, umbouate at apex ; pyrenes co , thickly woody compressed, 

 obliquely superposed, 1-spermous. Seeds glabrous, ascending and 

 descending ; albumen subcorneous ; cotyledons of axillary embryo 

 foliaceous suborbiculate ; radicle very small. Small glabrous trees ; 

 leaves alternate petiolate crenatc or serrate ; stipules minute 

 caducous ; flowers l axillary few (2-5) spuriously umbellate ; pedicels 

 minutely bracteolate. [Australia, Java?) 



24. Plenckia Eeiss. 3 — Flowers nearly of Celastrus (or Elœoden- 

 dron), 5-merous ; germen immersed in disk 2-locular ; ovules in cells 

 2, collaterally ascending. Fruit dry, indéhiscent samaroid ; pericarp 

 subglobose, at apex marginally produced equally on both sides to 

 straight linear-oblong membranous venose wing slightly dilated and 

 obtuse at apex. Seed in very elongate cell 1, suberect cylindrical 

 acute glabrous ; testa coriaceous ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of thin 

 axile (greenish) embryo linear elongate ; radicle short inferior.— 

 Glabrous trees; leaves alternate long and slenderly petiolate, generally 

 ovate, 4 serrate veined (poplar like) ; stipules minute, flowers 5 in 

 compound axillary pedunculate cymes. {Brazil. 6 ) 



25. Tripterygium Hook. F. 7 — Flowers of Celastrus, 5-merous ; 

 anthers broadly oblong. Germen free, 3-goual ; style short, apex 

 stigmatose obtusely 3-lobed. Ovules in 3 incomplete cells in pairs 

 ascending. Fruit 8 dry, apiculate to style, 3-gonal. 3-alate ; wings 

 widely membranous. Seed in cell 1, solitary suberect; embryo 

 small, at base of copious fleshy albumen; cotyledons oblong; radicle 

 inferior. — A glabrous (climbing ?) shrub ; leaves alternate petiolate 

 ovately elongate serrate venosely striolate ; stipules ; flowers 

 (small) in short terminal axillary racemes. (Formosa. 9 ) 



26. Mortonia A. Gray. 10 — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 very concave obconical or subcampanulate and lined with glandulous 

 disk. Sepals, 5 inserted at mouth of receptacle, imbricate at scarious 



Petals 5, alternate with sepals, sessile concave eroded, 



1 Yellow, purple striped. 4 One variety, very narrow. 



- Spec. 2. Mia. Fl. Lid. -Hut. i. p. ii. 592. 5 Small, white or yellow. 



— Hassk. in Itetzia, i. 150. — Hook. f. Trans. c Spec. 1,2. Fruit, nearly of Fraxin w. 



Linn. Soc. xxii. 133, t. 26.— Bentii. 11. Amiral. 7 Gen. 368, n. 32. 



i. 403.— Walp. Hep. v. 401; Ami. iv. 431; » Semi-uncial, 



vii. 585. 9 Spec. 1. T. Wilfordii Hook. p. 



Mart. Fl. Bras. Celastr. 30, t. 5, 10.— B. H. lu PI. Writ/lit. i. 35, t. 4 ; ii. 28.— B. H. 



Gen. 368, n. 33. Gen. 368. n. 30. 



