I.] XLT. CELASTRiNEiE. (M. A. Lawson.) 609 



A small branching tree, 12 ft. Leaves 3-4 in., obovate to obovate-oblong,. rounded 

 finely and acutely serrate at the apex, shining and dark green above, pale beneath, 

 almost black when dry. Peduncles 3 in., slenaer, 3-flowered. Mowers ^ in. across. 

 Fetals white, nearly orbicular. Fruit j^ in., globose with 4 rounded angles yellow. 

 iSeeife black, shining, with a scarlet aril. — A very elegant plant both in flower and 

 friiit. 



Vae. Leaves l^ by J in., oblong-lanceolate, flowers smallei: — ^perhaps a distinct 

 species, Bhotan, Qriffiih. 



8. E. calocarpus, Kurz in Jmrn. As. JSoc. Beng. 1872, pt. ii 299 ; 

 ' peduncles 1 in. or less stout. 



Tenasserim, Heifer. ' 



-A shrub ? with glabrous terete branches. Leaves 4-6 by 2|-3 in., elliptic or elliptic- 

 oblong, acute or subacuminate, entire, subcoriaceous, greeb above, pale beneath. Flowers? 

 Oapside the size of a -cherry, globose, obscurely 4-lobed. Seed 1 in each cell, aril 

 red.— Closely resembling a Microtropis in the texture and colour of its leaves. 



Sect. II. Mowers in 7- or more-flowered dichotomous cymes. (See 4. 

 E. crenulatus.) 



* Mowers usually Xi-merom. 

 t Branches cylind/ric. 



9. E. dicbotomus, Heyne in Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 410; 

 leaves 1^2 in. lanceolate margins entire undulate, peduncles very slen- 

 der, flowers very small. Wall. Gat. 4289 ; W. & A. Prodr. 160 ; Thwaites 

 Enum. 73 ; Bedd. M. Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixiii. 



Westeeh PeniksoLA ; CourtaUam, Heyne. Cetloit, banks of streams at Galagama, 



A small tree with twig^ branchlets. Cymes nearly as long as the leaves, exceed- 

 ingly slender, but firm. Petals .^ in., orbicular, entire, flat. Jiruit obconical. 



rlO. E. glaber, Eoxb. FL Ind. I '628; leaves smooth elliptic-oblong 

 the upper half obtusely serrate, flowers white. Wall. Cat. 4281. ? E. ser- 

 rulata, Wall Cat. 4296. 



Easteen Bengal, Griffith; ?Tavoy, Wall. 



A small tree with smooth shining dark-brown bark. Leaves 2 4 by 1-2^ in., dark- 

 green above, paler beneath. Peduncles stoutish, 1-2^ in. Petals J in., orbicular, 

 margins slightly undulate. Fruit f 



Vae. Leaves 3-5 in. oblong-elliptic quite entire. — Bhotan, Griffith. 



11. E, serratifolius, Bedd. Fl Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixiv. ; Ic. PI. Ind. 

 Or. 37, t. clxxi. ; leaves smooth lanceolate sharply and prominently 



serrate. 



Webteen Peninsula; slopes of the Nilghiris,. at Carcom Ghat, alt. ZOOO&.,'Ped- 

 dome. 



Leaves 3^-4 by f-lj in., narrow to broad lanceolate, tapering at the apex to a short 

 obtuse point. Petals | in., orbicular, suboordate at the base, orenulate. Fruit glo- 

 bose, with 5 rounded lobes. — Apparently closely allied to F.^paniculatys, from which 

 it differs chiefly in its longer narrowed and more sharply serrate leaves. 



12. E. paniculatus, El. Wight ; leaves 3| by \\ in. smooth- elliptic 

 crenate-serrate membranous, flowers purplish, E. crenulata iiar. laxiflora, 

 Wight Ic. i, 214 



■ Westeen Peninsula ; on the Shivagherry hills, Wight. 



Cymes lax and divaricating, 2 J-4 in. Petals orbicular, entire, y in. across. Fruit f 

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