Satacia.] XXXVl. CELASTRINE^. 261 



fleshy. Seeds large, angular.— Scandent or sarmentose shrubs or small trees. 

 Leaves opposite, petiolate, exstipulate. Flowers few or many, clustered in the 

 axils of the leaves or extra-axillary, more rarely in cymes. 



The species belong to the tropics of both hemispheres.— Jl/. A. Laiimm in Hook. Fl. Brit, 

 hid. i. 625. 



1. S. prinoides (Prinos-like), DC. Pmtl. A small straggling tree or large 

 climbing shrub. Branchlets somewhat terete. Leaves petiolate, very coriaceous, 

 H to 3in. long, f to l^in. broad, oblong, obtusely acuminate, serrate, slightly 

 repand. Flowers mostly axillary, 3 to 6 (1, 2, or 3, F. „. M.) from each tubercle, 

 pedicels under |in. Sepals puberulous, ciliate. Petals clawed, entire, about 1| 

 line, broadlyK)vate. (Anther cells divergent, F. c. M.) Fruit globose, size of a 

 small cherry, smooth 1-celled, 1-seeded, black (2-seeded, F. v. M.) 



Hab.: Recorded from Queensland by F. v. M. without locality. 



11. SIPHONODON, Griff. 



(Teeth united into a tube.) 



Calyx 5-eleft. Petals 5, spreading. Disk not distinct from the base of the 

 calyx. Stamens 5, connivent round the pistil, the filaments flattened. Ovary 

 half immersed in the disk or base of the calyx, conical, the summit hollowed and 

 stigmatic in the cavity round a central style-like column ; cells numerous, in 2 to 

 4 series ; ovules solitary in each cell, alternately ascending and pendulous. Drupe 

 globular, hard-fleshy, with numerous 1-seeded bony pyrenes superposed in rings 

 of about 10 round the central axis. Testa of the seed membranous ; albumen 

 almost horny ; cotyledons large, flat ; radicle short. — Glabrous tree. Leaves 

 alternate, entire or crenate. Stipules minute, deciduous. Peduncles short, 

 axillary, few-flowered. 



Besides the Australian species, which are endemic, it comprises only one from the Indian 



Archipelago. 



Leaves coriaceous, pale-coloured, oblong, obtuse, 3 to 4Jin. long, l|in. 

 broad, unequal-sided and tapering much towards the base. Fruit 

 usually oval, about lin. long . 1. S. australe. 



Branches drooping. Leaves falcate, about 5Jin. long, lin. broad, texture 

 thin, pale-coloured, obtuse, tapering at the base. Fruit globose, about 

 2in. diameter . . . 2. S. pendulum. 



Leaves of thin texture, 4J to 6in. long, 1 to If in. broad, apex sharply 

 acuminate, slightly ouneate at the base. Fruit globose-turbinate, 2in. 

 diameter, smooth, more or less sunk at the apex, and often deeply 5- 

 sulcate .... 'A. S. iiiembranaceum. 



1- S. australe (Australian), Benth. Fl. Austr, i. 408. A tree of 60ft. or 

 more. Leaves obovate or broadly oblong, obtuse, 2 to Sin. long, entire or slightly 

 sinuate, coriaceous, drying of the pale colour so frequent in Celastrinea. Peduncles 

 very short. Calyx irregularly 5-partite. Lobes imbricate. Petals cuneate- 

 orbicular, imbricate before expansion, white, deciduous, about 2J lines. Stamens 

 5, alternate with the petals ; filaments broad, scarcely 1 line long. Anthers 2- 

 celled; cells broadly divergent. Disk very short. Drupe globular, f to lin. 

 diameter, the flesh hard and dry, with the stigmatic scar at the top, and the scar 

 of the calyx at the base, as in S. celastrinem. Nuts numerous, appearing to have 

 been arranged in two rows in each of 6 cells, irregularly ovoid, somewhat 

 compressed, 3 to 4 lines long. Testa of the seed brown ; albumen not very thick ; 

 cotyledons broadly ovate. 



Hab.: Scrubs of southern Queensland. 



Wood white, very close in grain, firm, and easily worked ; an excellent wood for the cabinet- 

 maker, and might serve for engraving.— Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 80. 



Var. Keysii. Leaves coriaceous, pale-coloured, obovate, 2Jin. long, 2in. broad, tapering and 

 equal-sided at the base. Fruit nearly globnlar, IJin. long. Hab.: Mount Perry, J. Key.s. 



