Celastrus, pentandria monogynia, 387 



from one to three-celled, from two to three- valved; seeds few, covered 

 with a coloured aril. Embryo erect, and furnished with a peiisperni. 



3. C. emarginata, Willdf. sp. I 1128. 



Shrubby, aimed. Leaves obovate, entire, smooth. Flowers nu- 

 merous, axillary. Capsules inflated; cells two-seeded. 



Telinga. Chennee Cluntao. 



]s one of the most common, rather poor looking shrubs in these 

 parts of India, it grows every where and in every soil. Flowers 

 during the cold season. 



Stem nothing deserving the name, but branches innumerable, bent 

 in every direction, and armed with exceedingly strong, large, straight, 

 very sharp thorns. — Leaves alternate on the young shoots, on the old 

 wood or thorns fascicled, very short-petioled, obovate, emarginate, 

 smooth, shining ; about an inch long. — Stipules small, withering. — 

 Umbellets very ahort-peduucled, many-flowered, one or two from the 

 centre of the fascicles of leaves. Pedicels many times longer than 

 the peduncle, one-flowered. — Flowers small, whitish, yellow. — Petals 

 twice the length of the calyx. — Nectary, a saucer-formed, crenulate 

 body surrounding the base of the germ. — Germ conical, three-celled, 

 two ovula in each, attached to the bottom of their cell. Style sin- 

 gle, half three-parted. Stigmas emarginate. — Capsule inflated, tur- 

 binate, three-sided, three-celled, three- valved. Seeds two in each 

 cell, small, shining, red, resting on a white rleohy leceptacle. 



It makes good fences ; and fuel. 



2 C. montarta, JR.* 



Arboreous, thorny. Leaves obovate, serrulate, smooth. Panicles 

 axillary, small, dichotomous. Capsules with cells two-seeded. 

 Telinga. Pedda-cln'utoo. 



A small tree, a native of mountains. Flowering time the cold season. 

 Trunk erect, though generally a little crooked. Branches uumer- 



* Syst. yeg, v. 427. Roth. nov. spec. 154— N. W, 

 W v, 2 



