252 CELASTRINER. [ Celastrus. 
1. C. acuminatus, Wall. (@ymnosporia acuminata, Wall.; Hf. 
Ind. Fi. i. 619.)—An evergreen shrub (?), unarmed, all parts glab- 
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minutely but rather sharply serrulate, membranous, glabrous, glau- 
cous-green, 2-24 in. long; flowers small, whitish, on slender 
pedicels, forming dichotomously branched glabrous cymes on 3-2 
branchlets acute; petals about a line long ; capsules small, turbi- 
nate, hardly 4 or 5 lin. long, opening in 3 valves, containing in eac 
ell 2 small shining red seeds resting on a short white fleshy 
us. 
Has.—Burma, without locality—probably Prome. 
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beneath puberulous ; flowers small, yellowish, on slender puberulous — 
or glabrous pedicels, forming puberulous or almost glabrous elongate 
raceme-like panicles at the end of. the branchlets ; ealyx-lobes 
Has.—Not unfrequent from Ava to Pegu, in all leaf-shedding forests, especi- 
ally the dry and open ones.—Fr. Sept.-Oct.—I.—SS.— petrophilous, . 
4. C, monospermus, Roxb. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 618.—An evergreen 
scandent shrub, all parts glabrous ; leaves elliptical to oblong, acute 
or obtuse at base, on a 3-4 lin. long petiole, bluntish-acuminate, 
