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Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. — By George King, 

 M.B., LL.D., F.R.S., C.I.E., Superintendent of the Eoyal Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta. 



No. 8. 



[Reed. 18th May, Read 3rd June.] 



Order XXXI. Celastrine^. 



Erect or climbing trees or slirubs. Branches sometimes spinescent. 

 Leaves opposite or alternate, more or less coriaceous, simple, petioled, 

 rarely subsessile, entire or serrate ; stipules caducous or 0. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite or polygamous, usually cymose. Calyx small, with 4 or 

 5 imbricate lobes, persistent. Petals 4-5, rarely 0, inserted below the 

 disc or continuous with its margin, imbricate. Stamens 3-5, rarely 2, 

 filaments subulate or flattened, anthers 2-celled. Disc usually conspi- 

 cuous, pulvinate or flattened, lobed or entire, rarely 0. Ovary sessile, 

 the disc free at the base or confluent with it, 3-5-celled ; style short or ; 

 stigma triangular, rarely 3-partite. Ovules 2 or 4 in each cell, anatro- 

 pous, erect, rarely 1 and pendulous ; or many, ascending and attached 

 to the axis. Fruit capsular, baccate, drupaceous or saraaroid. Seed 

 arillate or exarillate, sometimes winged, albumen fleshy or ; embryo 

 usually large ; cotyledons foliaceous, flat. — Distrtb. Species about 500, 

 scattered over the tropical and temperate regions of the whole world. 



Tribe I. Celastrine^e, Stamens 4 or 5 ; the filaments slender, 

 often recurved, inserted on or beneath the margin of the disc. Seeds 

 (except in Kokoona) albuminous. 



Fruit dehiscent, leaves opposite (sometimes alternate in Lophopetalum). 

 Ovules 2 in the axis of each cell, petals 

 efoveolate. 



Petals connate, seeds not arillate . ... 1. Microtropis. 



Petals free, seeds arillate ... 2. Euonymus. 



Ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous ; petals 

 bifoveolate, seeds arillate ... ... 3. Glyptopetalum. 



Ovules 4 or more in each cell ; seeds winged. 



Petals inappendiculate ; disc cupular, 



the stamens inserted on its edge or on 



the inner vertical surface of its up- 

 turned edge ; ovary not buried in the 



disc ... ... ... 4. Kokoona. 



Petals lamellate or crested on the upper 



surface ; disc broadly orbicular, flat, the 



stamens inserted half way between the 



