Daphniphylium, | CELASTRINER. 247 
late, on a 1} to nearly 2 in. long petiole, acute at base, 3-4 in. 
long, acute or shortly acuminate, entire, chartaceous, giabrous, 
somewhat glancescent beneath, on both sides ( ly above 
laxly net-veined ; flowers on strong 1-2 lin. long pedicels, forming a 
short glabrous rather robust raceme in the axils of the leaves or 
above the scars of the fallen ones; anthers 5, dorsally compressed ; 
calyx deciduous ; drupes ellipsoid-oblong, about 4 in. long, smooth, 
on 4-3 in. long peduncles. 
Han —Rather rare in the ene A hill forests of the Martaban hills at about 
5,000 ft. elevation.—s. —SS.—Met 
2. D. majus, Muell, Arg. 5k parts asim, the branchlets 
glaucous ; leaves ovate-oblong to -ablengs on a 2-3 in. long petiole, 
rounded or acute at base, 5-6 in. long, ich ES entire, ¢ . 
ceous, glabrous, glaucous beneath; flowers on about 4 in. long 
icels, forming a short glabrous axillary raceme ; calyx appa- 
rently persistent in the males; stamens 8; the anche laterally 
compressed ; rest unknown. 
AB.—Tenasserim.—Fl. Febr. 
CELASTRINE. 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite. Calyx small, 4-5-lobed or 
~parted, persistent, imbricate. Petals 4 or 5, imbricate. Stamens 
3-5 (very rarely 2-10), inserted at the base of the disk or its lobes; 
filaments subulate, often si anthers 2-celled. Disk eonspicu- 
ous, cushion-like or explanate or lobed. Ovary sessile on the disk, 
free at the base or confluent with the disk, 3-5- (aly "1 celled, 
a5 usually 2 erect or rarely 1 or more ascendi ed 
es in each cell; style simple, rarely 3-5-cleft. Fruit various, 
id & capeule, berry, drupe, or samara. Seeds often arillate, sometimes 
winged. Albumen fleshy or almost horny, or none.—Trees or 
shrubs, sometimes thorny, rarely climbers, with opposite or alter- 
nate simple leaves often drying glaucous, Stipules very minute 
and deciduous or none. Flowers small or minute, in axillary cymes 
racemes or in terminal panicles. 
Most Celastrinee are readily recognized by the peculiar large 
disk ; from Rhamnacea pee! differ in having the stanens alter- 
e | 
* Stamens usually 5 or & sony rarely 10), insortedoxtsde outside 
the disk or tes Hil borders; filaments usually incurved, 
Seeds a 
me Beciee e faicic foo 
+ Ovules from the axis of oe cells ; leaves opposite. 
Petals free; disk fleshy, broad’; capsules 3-5-lobed and-celled =. Evonymus. 
