CELASTRAGE^. 3S 



leaves opposite or sometimes verticillate or alternate, stipules minute ; 

 flowers (minute) in slender stipitate (sometimes few-flowered) cymes. 

 {Central America, Mexico, CMli^ Madagascar'}') 



11. Ptelidium Dup.-Th.^ — Flowers of Euonymus, 4-merous ; 

 receptacle depressed. Calyx 4-partite ; folioles decussate, imbricate. 

 Petals 4. oblong sessile, imbricate. Stamens 4, altemipetalous, 

 interior to a short disk and alternate with its lobes ; filaments short 

 subulate, recurved at apex ; anthers small subglobose, extrorsely 2- 

 rimose. Germen compressed ovate, 2-locular and with short style 

 not thickened at apex. Ovules in . cells 2, inserted a little above 

 the base ascending ; mioropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit dry, 

 thickly samaroid oval-subcordate, much compressed, produced at 

 margin to a thick venose coriaaeous wing,* indehiscent, 1-2-locular. 

 Seed ascending linear-oblong ; " albumen fleshy thin; cotyledons of 

 embryo (green) flat foliaceous ; radicle inferior." — A glabrous shrub ; 

 leaves opposite petiolate coriaceous entire ; flowers in axillary ter- 

 nunal and ramose cymes. {Madagascar.'^) 



1 2. Zinowiewia Turcz.^ — Flowers 5-merous (of Elceodendron or 

 Eumymus) ; receptacle cupular. Sepals and petals 5, longer imbri- 

 cate. Stamens 5, exterior to 5 -angular disk ; anthers short introrse. 

 Base of germen imbedded in cavity of receptacle, 2-locular ; ovules 

 in cells 2, collaterally snberect ; micropyle extrorsely superior. Fruit 

 samaroidal,^ stipate at base with unenlarged calyx, dry, 1-locular, 

 dilated above to an unequal dolabriform, sometimes rather lateral 

 membranous wing, otherwise dry indehiscent ; seed suberect 

 cylindrical glabrous exarillate ; embryo . . . ? — A glabrous bush ; 

 leaves opposite entire (of Elceodendron); flowers'' in axillary deeply 

 2-chotomous ramose cymes.® [Mountainous Mexico.^) 



1 %^%o.T,i.%^.Fl.Ind.Occ.i.Z4/i{Myginda). * Spec. 1. P. ovatum Poik. loe. eit.—TvL. 



— H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. vii. 66 (part.), t. Ann. Sc. Nat. B&., 4, viii. WZ.—Seringia ovata 



620.— C. Gay, Fl. Chil. ii. 9 '^Myginda).— Spkeno. 



Gkiseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 146 {Myginda). — * Bull. Mosc. (1869), i. 275.— B. H. Gen. 364, 



Chapm. Fl. 8. Unit. St. 75 {Myginda).— Wii^r. n. 15. 



Sep.x. 402 {Myginda); Ann. i. 191; vii. 685 6 Nearly of Sccwnrfacffi the smaller sometimes 



{Myginda). ' recalling the legumen of iWssoKa. 



« Gen. Nov. Madag. 24 ; Hist. Vig. lUsJLfr. "• Small crowded green. 



Amtr lb t 4-Lamk. J«.t. 916.-PoiB.Dic*. « A genus distinguished from the oppositi- 



Suppl iv 697 —DO. Frodr. ii. 11.— Endl. Gen. foHous Maodendra only by its alate frmt. 



n. 5683 -B H.ff««. 363, n.ll.-P«(!««o(!«rp«m » Spec. 1. Z. integerrima Tubcz. - Walp. 



Dvp -Th Herb. Juss. (ex Tul.). - Seringia Ann. vii. 577.- Wim,neria ? integenima Xtecz. 



Spkeng. 'sya. i. 441 (neo J. Gay). Bull. Mose. (1858). 



' Wing sometimes obsolete. 



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