RRB 3 CELASTRINE. : { Salacia. 
x X Cymes penis, i. bi the pedicels arising directly from a 
tubercle 
O Petals gout 3. “4 5 long; pedicels 2-3 lin. — pe S. grandiflora. 
O © Petals less than 2 lin. long; filaments very s 
complana: 
+ Leaves tarnixi ing brown or blackish in drying 
Branchlets dark-brown, densely corky- so oem cera sities . S. verrucosa. 
Branchlets pale coloured, s sparingly lenticellate ; leaves serrate . 8S. Rowburghii. ~ 
+t 7 5 a ga a or ‘oilcania: , 
ying. : 
+ Berries by wesine 1- see and l-seeded . 8. prinoides. 
+ ies several-seed 
Leaves lanceolate ; —— 1-13 Ts. long. . S. flavescens. 
Leaves orate lanceolate ; ~— els numerous, longer than the 
. 8. multiflora. 
* sole Sedencied, waite abort. oe 
1. S. longifolia, Wall. (8. floribunda, Wight; Hf. Ind. Fl. 4, 
i. 629).—A large scandent shrub, the bra nehlets terete or slightly 
deoapteieat: minutely tubercled, all parts glabrous; leaves oblong 
or oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute or obtuse at the base, on | 
_ a 5-6 lin. long petiole, apiculate or bluntish acuminate, 4-5 in. 
, almost coriaceous, mi more or less_serrate-toothed, glabrous, | 
glossy, earner aia: Me in drying; eymes as long or much longer 
than the petioles, on } an in. long pediniche einen: once oF 
usually twice dichotomous; flowers small, greenish, on 6-8 8 lin. 
long thick pedicels, at base subtended by broad minute bractlets; 
sepals rotundate, small, entire; petals sessile, rotundate, about $ 
lo anthers 3, on very short dilated reflexed filaments; ; 
berries obovoid or almost globose, the size of a cherry, smooth, 2 
celled and 2 ed. 
ce Wunaitia: —Fr. Jan. 
2. S. tortuosa, Griff.—A large scandent shrub, all parts gb 
rous, the branches autnd and minutely lenticellate, the branchlets 
a 3- 
of binoieah and Ke Gat secikie: * Koletely ae char- 
taceous, glabrous, turning brownish in drying; cymes short and 
stiff, on a 3-4 lin. long peduncle, the dichotomous branchings MU0™ — 
shortened and terminating in a dense head of rusty-coloured much- 
fringed bractlets from among which the terete 4-6 lin. long” 
! ha 
sepals much imbricate and almost erect, more or less 4 
fringed ; petals about 3 lin. long, oblong, bluntish; stamens 3 
oneal broad ; filaments short, straight, terete; ovary set, 
the cells 2-ovuled. 
* aE Jan.-March. 
* %& Oymes sessile, i.e., the pedicels arising directly ee . 
tubercle or wart, 
