CELASTBACEM. d7 



ascending, dorsally inserted, oftener produced below to a membranous 

 wing and imbricate ; raphe produced to a wing from base to apex ; 

 testa of nucleus coriaceous or crustaceous, sometimes rugose ; 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo fleshy conferruminate ; radicle 

 short inferior. — Small trees or climbing shrubs ; leaves opposite 

 entire or serrate ; petiole articulate ; stipules small, caducous ; 

 flowers in axillary or terminal simple or oftener compound racemose 

 cymes. (All tropical regions.) See p. 13. 



36. Salacia L. 1 — Flowers of Hippocratea: petals 5, open imbricate. 

 Anthers 2-dymous, 2-locular; cells transversely rimose (Tontelea 2 ) or 

 longitudinally dehiscent (Eusalacia, Diplesthes, 3 ) sometimes confluent 

 in 1 transversely elongate and finally 1 -rimose cell (Anthodon.*) 

 Gynsecium and other characters of Hippocratea. Fruit baccate, 

 spherical, ovoid or obovoid, thickly corticate ; pulp mucilaginous. 

 Seeds l-oo, oftener angular, sometimes arillate; cotyledons of 

 exalbuminous or more rarely (Calypso 5 ) albuminous embryo thick, 

 free or conferruminate ; radicle short inferior. — Erect sarmentous or 

 climbing glabrous shrubs; leaves opposite or more rarely (Diplesthes) 

 alternate, entire, or crenate or serrate ; stipules very small or ; 

 flowers 7 axillary, solitary, 2-nate or oftener cymose-oo , sometimes 

 in terminal compound cymiferous racemes. 8 (All tropical regions. 9 ) 



37. Campylostemon Welw. 10 — "Flowers (nearly of Hippocratea) 

 5-merous ; petals open. Stamens 5, inserted in scarcely visible disk ; 

 filaments incurved; anthers 4-locellate, introrsely transversely rimose. 

 Germen 3docular ; stigma sessile 3-fid ; ovules in cells 6-8, 2-seriate. 



1 Mantiss. 293. — J. Gen. 424. — Poir. Diet. vi. fi A genus distinguished from Hippocratea 

 450. — DC. Prodr. i. 570. — Spach, Suit, à Buffon. only by the nature of its fruit. 



ii. 400.— Exdl. Gen. n. 7502.— B. H. Gen. 370. 9 Species about 60. Wight, Book. Bot. Misc. 



n. 37.— H. Bs\ Payer, Fam. Nat. 326.— Hook. iii. Suppl. t. 36 ; III. t. 46 ; Icon. t. 962.— Wight 



Fl. Ind. i. 625. and Arn. Prod,: i. 104.— H. B. K. Nov. Get,, et 



2 Aubl. Guian. i. 31, t.— Lasix. III. t. 26.— Spec. v. 140, t. 443 {Tontelea).— A. S. H. Fl. 

 Endl. Gen. n. 5701. — Tonsella Schreb. Gen. n. Bras. Mer. ii. 104, t. 104 (Calypso). — Bl. Bijdr. 

 74.— Sicelium P. Br. ex Poir. op. cit. v. 146.— 218.— Tul. Jim. Sc. Nat. sér. 4, viii. 93.— 

 Johnia Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 168. — Anthodiscus Guillem. et Perk. Fl. Sen. Tent. i. 113, t. 27. 

 Mart. Sclmlt. Mantiss. i. 253 (not Mey.). Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 230.— Oliv. Fl. 



;l Harv. Hook. Bond. Journ. i. 19. Trop. Afr. i. 372.— A. Gray, Amer. Expl. Exp. 



4 R. et Pay. Fl. Per. et Chil. i. 45, t. 74.— Bot. i. 286.-Griseb. Fl. Brit. TF.-Ind. 148.— 

 Clercia Velloz. Fl. Flum. 29, t. 73, 74. — Bad- Korth. Yerh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 38. — Mia. Fl. 

 disia Leandr. Munch. Benkschr. vii. 244, t. 15 Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 597.— F. Muell. Fragm. v. 

 (Endl.). 202.— Tr. Ann. Sc. Nat. loc. cit. 373.— H. Bs. 



5 Dup.-Th. Hist Yég. Iles Afr. Auslr. i. 29, Adansonia, x. 184 ; xi. 272.— Walp. Hep. i. 400, 

 t. 6. 401; v. 146; Ann. i. 130; ii. 193; iv. 368; 



6 Sometimes green. vii. 584. 



' Small, yellowish or white. 10 Ex B. H. Gen. 99S, n. 35 a. 



