CELASTRAOE^. 31 



lobes of a thick disk ; filaments free ; anthers introrse j connective 

 rather thick. German immersed in base of disk, attenuated to a 

 capitate style with stigmatic apex ; cells 2, incomplete alterni- 

 petalous. Ovules in each cell 2, ascending ; micropyle extrorsely 

 inferior. Fruit capsular oblong, loculicidally 2-valvate, tardily 

 dehiscent. Seeds oblong, enclosed in membranous multifid aril ; ^ 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of straight embryo^ oblong. — A glabrous 

 under-shrub ; leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, minutely stipu- 

 late, entire or serrate; flowers in axillary cymes.^ {North-western 

 mountainous America.^) 



3. Catha Forsk.^ — Flowers nearly of Euonymus, 5-merous ; 

 receptacle shortly concave. Calyx short 5-lobed, imbricate. Petals 

 6, longer erect, imbricate, finally opening at apex. Stamens 5, alter- 

 nipetalous, exterior to cupular disk ; filaments subulate erect ; 

 anthers short sub-2-dymis, introrsely 2-rimose. Gtermen free, 3- 

 locular ; style short, apex shortly 3-lobed stigmatic ; ovules in cells 

 2, ascending ; micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit capsular, linear- 

 oblong or subclavate, obtjisely 3-gonal, loculicidaUr 3-valved ; septa 

 thickened in the middle. Seeds ^ 1-3, elongate, produced below to a 

 thin (arillate ?) membranous unequally 3-angular wing ; testa crusta- 

 ceous slightly punctulate-rugose ; albumen fieshy ; cotyledons of 

 (green) axile embryo foliaceous elliptic ; radicle rather long inferior. 

 — A glabrous shrub ; leaves oftener opposite oblong-lanceolate coria- 

 ceous, serrate or subentire ; stipules minute ciliolate ; flowers in 

 axillary short dichotomous ramose cymes. {Arabia^ warm Eastern 

 and Southern Africa!^) 



4. Microtropis Wall.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous ; 

 receptacle cupular. Sepals 5, unequal, much imbricate, persistent. 

 Petals 5, the alternate longer, imbricate, slightly fleshy or subcoria- 



1 White. n. 567S (part.).— B. H. Gen. 361, n. 4.— H. Bn. 



2 Green. Payer Fam. Nat. Z'ii.—Methyscophynwm. Bctl. 

 ^ A genus distinguished from JK(0«ymoMs only et Zbxh. Enmn. Wi.—Trigonotheca Hoohst. 



hy the forms of its floral parts and fruit, and Flora (1841), 662. 



hy its incompletely 2-celled germen. ° Nearly of Hippoeratea (or Canotia). 



* Spec. 1. P. myrsiniies Eafin.— Wats. Expl. ' Spec. 1. C. eduUs Fotsk. loc. eit.—X. Rich. 



Fort. Parall. £ot. 50. — Myffinda myrtifolia Fl. Aiyss. Tent. i. t. 30.— Celaslrus edulis Yasl, 



Ntjtt.— Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. i. 120, t. 41.— Symb. i. 21.— DC. ProOr. ii. 6,n. 25 (species of 



Oreophila myrtifoUa Nutt. Gen. PI. i. 100.' — C«Ma of other authors helong to Os&s^rws). 



Walp. Sep. i. 538. P. Ganhyi A. Gkay [_Am. ' Ex Akn. Ann. Nat. Mist. iii. 152.— Endi. 



/<)«)■«.&. (1874), 442, is another species recently Gen. a. 5681.— B. H. Gen. 361.— Hook. Fl. 



iinknown to us. Ind. i. 613. 

 5 Fl. .X'g:- Arab. 6& [not of others).— Endl. Qen. 



