260 XXXVI. CELASTRINE^. [El^odmdron. 



2. Xa. melanocarpum (blaok-fruited), F. r. M. Fraffm. iii. 62 ; Benth. FL 

 Aii.'itr. i. 403. A glabrovTS tree. Leaves opposite, obovate or oval-elliptical, 

 broadly crenate, scarcely to be distinguished from those of E. aiistrale, except 

 that the veins are more conspicuous on the upper as well as the lower side. 

 Flowers smaller than in E. australe, the males more numerous, in slender cymes 

 like those of the small-flowered Indian Uippocrateas, usually 3-merous. Female 

 flowers in less-branched cymes and often 4-merous. Ovary 3-celled, but very 

 imperfect in the flowers examined. Drupe ovoid or globular, shining-blaok, 

 rather larger than in E. amtrale, the hard putamen always 3-celled, or showing 

 the traces of a second or third cell when reduced to one. Albumen copious. 



Hab.: Keppel Bay, Port Bowen, Eockingham Bay, Fitzroy and Lizard Islands, Port Denison, 

 Bockhampton. 

 Wood tough, of a light colour and fine grain. — Bailey'x Cat. Ql. Woods No. 79. 



9. HIPPOCRATEA, Linn. 

 (After Hippocrates, the father of physic.) 

 Calyx small, 5-cleft. Petals 5, valvate or imbricate. Stamens usually 3, the 

 filaments thick at the base, eonnivent round the ovary, recurved at the top ; 

 anthers at first divided into 2 or 4 cells, at length confluent into 1 transverse cell. 

 Disk conical or broad. Ovary 8-celled, style short, stigma 3-lobed ; ovules 2 or 

 more in each cell. Fruit of 3 distinct, flat, coriaceous carpels, opening along the 

 middle in 2 boat-shaped valves. Seed compressed, usually produced at the base 

 into a wing adnate to the raphe ; albumen none ; embryo in the upper end of the 

 seed ; cotyledons flat, connate ; radicle inferior. — Small trees or woody climbers. 

 Leaves opposite, entire or serrate. Stipules very small and deciduous. Flowers 

 in axillary cymes or panicles. 



A large genus, widely distributed over tropical Asia, Africa, and America, the Australian 

 species being one of the common Asiatic ones. It belongs to the section with comparatively 

 large flowers and valvate petals. The other section common in India, including H. indica, with 

 minute globular flowers and imbricate petals, has not yet been observed in Australia. — Benth. 



1. H. obtusifolia (obtuse-leaved), Boxh.; W. and Aiti. Prod. 104, var. 

 barbata ; Benth. FL Amtr. i. 404. A tall, woody, glabrous climber. Leaves 

 ovate, obovate, or oblong, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, 2 to 4in. long, entire, 

 coriaceous, somewhat shining. Flowers in short, loose, axillary cymes, the upper 

 ones forming sometimes large leafy lerminal panicles. Petals fully 2 lines long, 

 lanceolate, rather thick, valvate in the bud, and in the Australian specimens 

 bearded inside above the middle, the disk and ovary also occasionally villous or 

 piabescent. Ovules 6 to 10 in each cell of the ovary. Carpels about 2in. long, 

 either broadly oblong and entire or broader and emarginate at the top.— H. 

 macrantha, Korth. Verhand. Nat. Geseh. Bot. 187, t. 89 ; H. barbata, F. v. M. 

 in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. iii. 23. 



Hab.: Taylor's Range, Moreton Bay. Bipe in November. 



The Species is widely distributed over tropical Asia. The common Indian form, figured in 

 Wight,' Ic. t. 963, has glabrous petals, but the variety with bearded petals as described by 

 Korthals from Borneo, and of which we have specimens from Ceylon, is the same as the 

 Australian one ; and the amount of hairiness both on the petals and ovary appears to be variable. 

 — Benth. 



10. SALACIA, Linn. 



(After Salacia, the wife of Neptune.) 



Calyx small, 5-parted. Petals 5, imbricate. Stamens 3, rarely 2 or 4, 

 continuous with the disk, recurved. Ovary conical, immersed in the disk, 3-celled. 

 Style very short, stigrna simple or 3-lobed, ovules 2 to 8 in each cell, in 1 to 2 

 series, inserted on the inner angle. Fruit a berry, 1 to 3-celled, sub-woody or 



