XLi. CELASTRiNE^. (M. A. Lawson.) 607 



** Fruit indeliiscent. 



Ovules 2 in each cell, erect. Fruit coriaceous, 1-2-oelled . . 6. Pleueosttlu.. 



SuBTKiBE n. Celasteks). Leaves alternate. Ovules 2 in each, cell, 

 erect. Fruit dehiscent. 



Ovary free. Seeds arillate. Shrubs, usually soandent ; flowers 



paniculate or racemose 7. Cblasteus. 



Ovary confluent with the disk. Erect shrubs or trees, often 



spinose ; flowers cymose 8. Gtmnospokia. 



, Ovary free, surmounted by a tuft of hairs, styles 2. Flowers 



' in simple or panicled racemes 9. Kukbimia. 



SuBTRiBE m. EiuBODENDEEa;. Leavcs opposite or subopposite. Fruit a 

 dry or pulpy drupe. 



Ovary confluent with the disk, flowers cymose. Seeds exaril- 

 late 10. Eljeodewdeon. 



Teibe IJ. KippocratesB. Stamens 3, rarely 2, 4 or 5, inserted on the 

 face of the disk. Filaments flattened, sometimes adnate to the ovary, re- 

 curved and causing the anthers when dehiscing to become extrorse. Seed 

 exalbuminous. — Leaves opposite except in Siphonodon. 



Fruit flattened, dehiscent. Seeds winged. Soandent shrubs ; 

 leaves opposite 11. Hippoceatea. 



Fruit a berry. Seeds not winged. Erect shrubs ; leaves op- 

 posite .' 12. Sjvlacia. 



Fruit indehisoent. Seeds not winged ; leaves alternate . . 13. Siphonodon. 



1. EUOKVnXUS, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, erect rarely scandent, glabrous. Leaves petioled, rarely 

 subsessile; stipules caducous. Calyx 4-5-fid, spreading or recurved; 

 Petals 4^5, Stam£ns 4-5, inserted on the disk ; anthers broad, 2-celled. 

 Dish large, fleshy, 4-5-lobed. Ovary sunk in the disk, 3-5-celled ; style 

 short or 0, stigma 3-5-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell, attached to the inner 

 angle, ascending and suspended. Capsule 3-5-celled, 3-5-robed, angled or 

 winged, coriaceous, rarely echinate; cells 1-2-seeded, loculicidal. Seeds 

 covered by the aril, albuminous. —Disteib. Species about 40 ; natives of the 

 mountainous regions of Tropical Asia and the Malayan Archipelago, a few 

 also scattered over Europe and North America. 



Sect. I. Peduncles 1-3-flowered. 



* Flowers umaUy ^-^merous. Petals fimhriate. 



1. E. javanicus, Blume Bijdr. 1146; peduncles l-flowered fascicled. 

 Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 130, t. 28. E. sumatranus, M'lq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. L 

 512. E. sphoerocarpus, Hassh. Cat. PI. Hort. Bog. 229. 



Eastern PENiHsnLA ; from Tenasserim to Penang and Malacca.— Disteib. Sumatra, 

 J*va. . 



A tree 30-40 ft. Leaves 4-6 by 1^-2^ in., thick and coriaceous, oblong, elliptic or 

 elliptic-oblong, acute or suhacuminate, entire or obscurely crenate-serrate towards the 

 apex. Peduncles |-1| in., terete. Petals oblong, about i in. Fruit f in., obovate- 

 clavate.— .£. sumatranus, Miq., has fruit 1 in. or more long, but in all other respects it 

 resembles E. javanicus. 



