36 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLAINTS. 



13. Pleurostylia Wight and Arn.^— Flowers 4, 5-merous ; 

 sepals 2 imbricate. Petals longer imbricate. Stamens 5 alternipe- 

 talous ; filaments interior to lobe of disk and alternate with tbem ; 

 anthers subbasifixed, introrse ; connective incrassately dilated at back 

 (dark). German free, immersed at base in cavity of receptacle ; 

 style short, apex stigmatic 3-gonal or unequally dilated ; cell in germen 

 1, eccentric ; ovules in cell 2, ascending ; raphe dorsal. Fruit slightly 

 fleshy, finally dry, marked with eccentric scar of style. Seeds 1 or 

 more rarely 2 ; testa coriaceous, externally clothed with pulp (aril ?) ; 

 albumen copious; cotyledons of rather large embryo wide suborbicu- 

 late, — A glabrous shrub ; leaves opposite entire coriaceous ; flowers ^ 

 in axillary cymes. [Fast Indies, New Caledonia, Malacca!^') 



14. Cathastrum Tuecz.^ — Flowers nearly of Pleurostylia ; sepals 

 and petals 6, imbricate. Stamens 5, exterior to thin 5-gonal disk ; 

 anthers short introrse. Germen free oblique ; style short, apex stig- 

 matic subpeltate ; ovules in eccentric cell co (6-8), inserted in 2 series 

 in parietal placenta, ascending. Fruit . . . ? — A glabrous shrub; leaves 

 opposite oblong, entire or undulate ; stipules minute, flowers in 

 axillary or subterminal compound ramose corymbiform cymes ; pedi- 

 cels articulate at biise, 2-bracteolate. {South Africa.^') 



15. Celastrus L.^ — Flowers (nearly of Euonymus) hermaphrodite 

 or 1 -sexual ; receptacle very various inform, shortly convex, subplane 

 or more or less concave cupular or suburceolate. Disk very various 

 in form, lining the receptacle, or flattened, 4-5-1 obed [Gymnosporia,^) 

 or thick cupular sinuate-lobed {Benhamia,^) or more or less concave, 

 obconical or urceolate. Sepals 4, 5 and petals, same in number 

 alternate, longer, inserted at margin of receptacle, more or less peri- 



1 JProdr. i. 157.— Endl. Gen. n. 5686— B. H. 167, t. 36.— A. Gray, Oen. HI. t. 170.— B. H. 

 Gen. 363, n. 14.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 325.— Gen. 364, 977, n. 16.— Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 617.— 

 UooTS.. Fl. Ind.i. 617.— Bakee, Fl.MauHt.i9. 'Bathhb.FI. Maunt.5Q.—E..'Bi<s. Payer Fam. Nat. 



2 Minutely glandular. 324 (incl, ; Denhamia Meissn. Gymmsporia 



3 Small and few, white. Wight and Aen. Maytenus Fetjilt.. Futter- 

 * Spec, atout 2. Wight, Icon. t. 156.— Tul. lickia Endl.). 



Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, viii. 104 {Pleurostylia).— " Wight and Arn. Prodt: i. 159.— B. H. Gen. 



Walp. Sep. i.5S6; Ann. yu. 671. 365, n. 18; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 618.-Catha 



6 Still. Mosc. (1858), u. 448.-B. H. Gen. Endl. Gen. n. 6678. (not FomK.)—Encentrm 



^''^ "■ ^- Presl, ^01!. Scm. ZS.— Polyanthus PkesI, 



■ ° Spec. 1. C. capense Turcz.- Hakt. and loc. cit. 



SoND. Fl. Cap. i. 527.-WALP. Ann. vii. 676. » Meissn. Gen. 18 ; Comm. 16.-Ekdl. Qm. 



■> Gen.n.27Q.-J.6en. 378.-G2eetn. Jmi.i. n. 6065.-B. H. Gen. 366, 997, n. 2Z.-Zeuco. 



■ \^7 ^^r'p f ■•■ T k^"^^';": "' • ^' "^^o" ^- Ri-'H. Voy. Astrol. Bot. 46. t. 46.- ? 



