294 pentandria monogyniaJ Celastrus. 



Major-General Hardwiek, in 1811. It blossoms in the month of 

 May. 



An elegant, perfectly smooth shrub or small tree, branching from 

 the base of the stem.' — Branches very slender, round, long, covered 

 with ash-grey baik; they have scarcely any tendency to climb or ram- 

 ble, but a?e nodding at the apex. Young shoots glaucous, surrounded 

 at the base by a number of small, withered bud-scnles. — Leaves 

 very irregulaily scattered, so closely approximate at the end of the 

 branches as io become almost fascicled; varying in their form on one 

 and the same branch, from linear to iauceoiate-oblong, or cuneate, 

 from two to three, or even four inches iong ; obtuse and rounded at die 

 apex, tapering towards the base ; the margins remotely semuate, the 

 serratures gibbous and very obliquely cuspidate ; of a thick, nearly 

 fleshy texture, pale-green, opaque, ash grey, and elegantly reticulate 

 underneath when dry, olhervuse neatly destitute of nerves and veins. 

 — Peduncle^ axillary, filiform, generally hah the length of the leaves, 

 compressed, once or twice dichotomous. J3i actes at the middle of the 

 pedicels, lanceolate, fringed, sub-verticillate. — Flowers small, white. 

 Hacinia of the calyx ovate, ciliate, four times shorter than the petals. 

 °^ Stigma obscurely three-lobed. — N. W. 



10. C. monosperma, R. 



Shrubby, scandent. Leaves oblong, glossy, serrulate. Panicles 

 thin, linear, axillary and terminal, longer than the leaves. Capsules 

 three-valved, one-seeded- 



Tiara the vernacular name in Sillier., where it is found wild 

 in thin forests, climbing, and twining up and over trees, &c. to a 

 great extent. Flowering time the month of April. Seeds ripe in 

 October. 



Young shoots smooth and brown, perfectly void of every kind of 

 pubescence. — Leaves alternate, short-petioled, from obovale-ob- 

 long to lanceolar, glossy on both sides, serrulate, obtusely point- 

 ed, from three to five inches long, and one or two broad.— Panicles 



