250 CELASTRINER. [ Microtropis. 
petals and stamens 4, the former about 2 = long, rotundate; 
ovary smooth, d and -celled. 
Has.—Not anneal t in the damp hill-forests of ee a hills, at 
ae to-7,000 ft. elevation. —Fl. March-Apr.—s.—SS.—M i 
5. E. scler SC DETTAR Kz. (Glyptopetalum elec 
Hf. Ind. Fi. i. 613).—An evergreen tree (8—12+43 sr as ‘the 
branchlets terete or compressed, all parts glabrous; bark red ; leaves 
oblong- to elliptically lanceolate, on a 3-4 lin. long thick petiole, 
acuminate at both ends, 6-8 in. long, coriaceous, serrate ; flowers 
greenish purple, on long slender pedicels, forming lax, glabrous, 
itary or more usually clustered peduncled cymes in the axils 
of the leaves or above the scars of the fallen ones; sepals white, 
broadly semi-orbicular ; petals almost concave-orbic ular, green out- 
side, purplish green inside ; 3 stamens 4 ; anthers sessile on the obso- 
le etely 4-gonous green broad disk ; stigma sessile, obsoletely 4- 
cornered ; capsules more or less globular or 2-lobed, the size of a 
see pea, very rough from scurfy fissures and warts ; 
lood-red. 
Has.—Rather foe in the Eopost forests around the Kambala in the Pega 
Yomah.—Fl. & Fr. §.—SS.=SiS. 
fe Woe white, soft, straightly and finely fibrous, close-grained. 
MICROTROPIS, Wall. 
Wwers sometimes unisexual. Sepals 5, imbricate, persistent 
Petals 5 (rarely none), more or less erect and united at base m @ 
persistent ring, either free or confluent with the disk. Stamens 5. 
Disk annular or none. Ovary free, perfectly or imperfectly 2-3- 
celled, with 2 ovules in each cell. penewe coriaceous, 1-celled, 
leaves. Flowers Pasig in nee phe or clusters. Seeds us 
red, the testa often arillus-like succulen 
- Leaves wrinkled, ially — and more coriaceous é . MW. longifolia. 
Leaves smooth, of a 
Cymes pone tadings on an 1- Ibi in, long slender peduncle ; leaves 
Spa a Reet ad ah rt; the mere 
fegadan vtec haired very saat ars © peduncles es tin long 5 wade garcinifolia. ” 
1. M. longifolia, Wall. eee evergreen shrub (?), all parts glab- 
rous ; leaves oblong-lanceolate or oblong, on a thick 4-5 lin. long 
petiole, acute at base, 6-7 in. long, shortly acuminate, entire, eorla- 
ayes on both sides (especially above) wrinkled ; flowers 
in Sea mes ; peduncle 4-6 lin, long ; capsules obovate, seeds red : 
fie laces Octob. . 
