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TnniE III. HippocrateBB. - StoiKois 3, rarely 2, 4, or 5, inserted on tJie face of the disk. 

 Filaments flattened, sometimes adnate to the ovary, recurved and causing the anthers when 

 dehiscing to become extrorse. Seeds albuminous. Leaves opposite, except in Siphonodon. 

 Fruit flattened, dehiscent. Seeds winged. Seandent shrubs. Leaves 



opposite 9. HiPPOCBATEA. 



Fruit a berry. Seeds not winged. Erect shrubs. Leaves opposite . 10. Salaoia. 

 Fruit indehisoent. Seeds not winged. Reaves alternate 11. Siphonodon. 



1. EUONYMUS, Linn. 



(Well named.) 



Calyx 4 or 5-fid, spreading or recurved. Petals 4 or 5. Stamens 4 or 5, 

 inserted on the disk ; anthers broad, 2-celled. Disk large, fleshy, 4 or 5-lobed, 

 Ovary sunk in the disk, 3 or 5-celled. Style short or none, stigma 3 or 5-lobed ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell, attached to the inner angle, ascending and suspended. 

 Capsule 3 or 5rCelled, 3 or 5-lobed, angled or winged, coriaceous, rarely echinate ; 

 'cells 1 or 2-seeded, loculicidal. Seeds covered by the aril, albuminous. — Trees or 

 shrubs, erect, rarely seandent, glabrous. Leaves petiolate, rarely subsessile, 

 stipules caducous. 



The species are natives of the mountainous regions of tropical Asia, the Malayan Archipelago, 

 a few scattered over Europe and North America, and one in Australia (Queensland). 



1. H. australiana (Australian), F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 118, vi. 202. A tall 

 evergreen shrub with pale smooth bark, the branchlets compressed-angular, at 

 length terete. Leaves opposite, 2 to 3in. long, 1 to Ifin. broad, subovate, lanceo- 

 late, or orbicular-ovate, repand-crenulate, entire below the middle, shining on 

 both sides, pale beneath, the apex obtuse or very shortly and obtusely produced. 

 Cymes axillary, on bony peduncles, solitary, bearing many or few flowers, dichoto- 

 mously branched. Flowers pedicellate. Bracts opposite, minute, almost deltoid, 

 soon deciduous. Sepals unequal, 1 to 2 lines, glabrous, imbricate, fimbriate, 

 the 2 outer ones almost semi-orbicular, 3 inner ones almost rotund. Petals 

 ochroleucus, deciduous, orbicular, about 2 lines, fimbriate on short broad claws. 

 Stamens glabrous, inserted on, the disk ; filaments setaceous, about 1 line long. 

 Anthers scarcely 1 line long, almost renate, cells divaricate, distinct, extrorse. 

 Style conioo-subulate, f line long. Ovary 5-celled, cells 2-ovulate. Capsule 4 to 

 6 lines long, loculicidally 5-valved, cells 1 rarely 2-seeded, dark-brown, ovate, 

 glossy, about 2 lines long. Arillus cupular, about 1| line long. Albumen white, 

 amygdaline-cartilaginous. Cotyledons pale-green, plane, ovate-orbicular. Eadicle 

 inferior, very short. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v. M., I.e.) 



2. CELASTRUS, Linn. 



(Name referring to the late time of ripening its fruit ; Kelas, the latterseason.) 

 Flowers polygamous. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5, spreading. Disk broad, con- 

 cave. Stamens 5, inserted on the margin of the disk ; filaments subulate, flat- 

 tened at the base ; anthers ovoid or oblong. Ovary not immersed in the disk, 2 

 to 4-celled ; style usually short, the stigma lobed, spreading ; ovules 2, collateral, 

 erect, the funicle cup-shaped. Capsule globular, oblong, or obovoid, coriaceous, 2 

 to 4-celled, opening loculicidally. Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, usually enveloped 

 partially or wholly in a fleshy arillus, sometimes connecting the seeds in a mass, 

 sometimes nearly or quite wanting ; testa membranous or almost crustaceous ; 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons leafy.— Trees or shrubs, often climbing, unarmed. 

 Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, or serrate. Stipules minute and deciduous, or 

 none. Flowers small, in terminal or axillary oblong panicles or racemes, 

 Pedicels articulate. Bracts very small. 



