388 FENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Celastrus. 



ous, armed with the same large, sharp leaf and flower bearing thorns 

 as in the last. — Leaves alternate, short-penoled, obovate, slightly 

 serrate, smooth, shining; about two inches long — Panicles axillary, 

 dichotomous, many-flowered.— .F/oaws small, while. — Petals many 

 times longer than the calyx. Nectary as in C. emarginatus. 

 Germ round, three-celled, cells with two ovula in each, attached to 

 the bottom of the cell. Styles three, shoit, clubbed. — Stigmas 

 emar°inate.— Capsules small, not inflated, in other respects like the 

 last. — Seeds one or two in each cell, small, nearly round, attached 

 as in the germ. Aril white, sebaceous, embracing the lower half of 

 the seed. Integument single, polished, brown. — Perisperrn conform 

 to the seed, dull white, and hard — Embryo nearly as long as the 

 perisperrn, erect. Cotyledons roundish. Radicle ovate, inferior. 

 The wood of this tree is hard, and durable, 



3. C. pankulata, Willd. sp. i. 1125.* 



Unarmed, shrubby, scandent. Leaves round, oval, serrate. Panicle 

 terminal. Stamens inserted into a nectarial ring. 



A large, climbing shrub; a native of the drear mountains. Flow- 

 ering time March and April. 



Branches twiggy. Bark covered with g ey, scabrous specks. — ■ 

 Leaves alternate, petioled, broad-oval, serrate, pretty smooth, about 

 two inches long, and one and half broad. — Petiols round, and one- 

 third the length of the leaves. — Panicles terminal, erect, thin, oblong. 

 — Bractes small, falling. — Flowers small, yel ! ow, numerous. — Calyx 

 inferior, five-toothed ; segments concave, emarginate. — Petals five, in- 

 serted between the nectary and calyx, spreading — Nectary cup-shap- 

 ed ; border five-toothed. — Filaments five, which area continuation 

 of the teeth of the nectary, rather shorter than the petals. Anthers 

 ovate.— Germ round. Style shorter. Stigmas three.— Capsule 

 round, size of a pea, one-celled, three-valved, opening from the apex. 

 — Seeds from three to six, suirounded with a yellow pulpy nidus, and 

 always separating into three lobes, whatever the number be. 



* C. Roihiana, Sjst. veg. 1. c. 423, Cqanolhus pankulata, Roth. 1. c. 15& 



