260 CELASTRINEXZ. [ Salacia. 
. Has.—Not —— in the te: cesenk of Martaban and Tenasserim ; 
also Chittagong $8.—=Met 
REMARKS. Wood reddish, the annual rings ele 
. S: prinoides, DC. ; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 626.—A straggling small 
ess or rather large half-scandent shrub, all parts glabrous, the 
branchlets smooth, grey, more or less 4-cornered ; leaves lanceolate to 
oblong-lanceolate, : acute at the base, on a slender petiole 4-5 lin. long, 
shortly and bluntish acuminate, about 1}-3 in. long, crenate- serrate, 
coriaceous, glossy above, turning gl t in drying; flowers small, 
dull yellowish green, on 4-6 lin. long rather sake radiate several 
together arising from an axillary tubercle @; calyx-lobes rotundate, 
more or less puberulous along the borders; petals about a line long, 
broadly obovate or almost rotundate, contracted in a short claw, 
waved or almost entire ; anthers 3, on short but slender terete fila- 
ments arising from the inner margin of the cup-shaped fleshy disk — 
which almost completely encloses the 3-celled ovary already before 
——— on ; ; rries globose or nearly so, the size of a small 
cherry, red, glossy, with a thin aie sappy, by abortion 1-celled 
a. — PPYs J. 
ee =" 4 
emailed 
Has arte, in the tidal forests all along the mets ee Brace. and 
Pegu down to Tenasserim and the Andamans. “TL Jan 
vescens, Kz.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 625. sie scandent — 
ish in - drying ; owers minute, white, on 1-2 lin. 
arising from minutely bracted tubercles in the axils of: the ee or 
laterally ; sepals oblong-lanceolate, bluntish ; petals }- lin. long, 
eee blunt; anthers 3, on very short dil lated filaments; ovary 
smoot. 
Has.—Tenasserim, 
8. S, multiflora, Wight. ; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 627.— ica ae 
rous ; leaves broadly evate-lanceolate, rounded at the base, slightly 
acuminate and blunt at the apex, coriaceous, oe entire, with the 
margins slightly revolute, 8-10 in. long by 4 broad, turning 
green in drying; pedi cels numerous, from axillary tubercles, ba 
ny petioles ; calyx deeply 5-cleft ; petals orbicular ; an 
: transversely across the apex of the filament and 
bial: ovules about 8 in each cell, in 2 collateral rows 
