s.] xLi. CELASTRiNEiE. (M. A. Lawson.) 611 



19. E. fimbrlatus, Wcdl. in Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 408- 

 Cat. .4287; leaves ovate-acuminate biserrate membranous, fruit witli 

 4 tapering Wings. 1 E. micratithus, Bon Prodr. 191. 



Temperate HiKalata ; ffom Kumaon, alt. 8-10,000 ft., to Sikkiin, Alt. 10-12,000 ft, 

 J. JJ, n, 



A tree? Leaves IJ-S ty 4-1 J in., elegantly fringed with sharp deep tisertaturfes, 

 dark-green. Peduncles 2-3 in. ; pedicels branching subumbellately. Petals ^ in., 

 white, broadly ovate, entire. Fruit leathery, the size of a cherry.— the woodcut given 

 in Paxton's, Flower Garden, ii. 55, t. 316, can hardly belong to this species: the leaves 

 resemble more those of E. pendulus or H. frigidus. 



20. E. frig^ldus, Wall, in Roxh. M. Ind. ed. Garey, li. 409 j Cat. 4288 ; 

 adult leaves 3-5 by |-1| in. oblong-lanceolate acuminate somewhat sharply 

 serrate, fruit with 4 long tapering wings. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 8-12,000 ft., /. D. ^.; Bhotah, Griffith; Kdmaon, Wallich. 



A small tree f youngshoots succulent. Flowers very small, on weak succulent fili- 

 form peduncles and pedicels, the latter 4 in. long. Petals orbicular, entire. Fr^it as 

 in the last species. 



Vak. Apparently a shrub, leaves 1 ft. by J in. faintly and distantly serrate. 



I 



+t Style manifest. 



a. Fruit armed tidth spines. 



21. E. clnereus, Laws. ; branches rough with minute tubercles, leaves 

 obovate, fruit | in. globose armed with pale-coloured spines. 



East Benoal, Griffith. 



Soandent? .BrarjcAes destitute of rootlets. Leaves 24 by i| in., broadly obovate, 

 HDiinded at the apex, serrate, pale-coloured. Flowers 1 



22. E. echinatus, Wall, in, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 410; 

 Gat. 4285 ; branches smooth radicant, leaves ovate-lanceolate, fruit \ in. 

 globose armed with dark-coloured spines. Royle Ml. t. 31 ; Bot. Mag. 

 pl&l ; Voigt Sort. Sub. Calc. 165 ; Brand. For. Fl. 80. E. scandens, Graham 

 in Jameson's Fd. New. Phil. Journ. 1827, 386. 6, vagans, Wall. Cat. 4284, 

 irhpaH. 



Tempeeate Himalaya ; from Garwhal to Sikkim, alt. 7-10,000 ft. 



Climbing, over trees and rocks, to which the stems adhere by means of dense adven- 

 titions rootlets. Leaves 1-2 by '4-1 ™., serrate, dark-green above, pale beneath. 

 Tedmncles mostly 3 times divided. Petals J in., orbicular, crenulate. Style ^ in. 



b. Fruit unarmed. 



23. E. vag'ans, WaU. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed.' Carey, ii. 412; Cat. 4284, 

 in part; stem climbing, leaves 1-2 by |-f in. ovate-lanceolate serrate, fruit 

 the size of a pea nearly black minutely tubercled. 



Temperate Himalaya ; Sikkim and Nipal, Wallich, &o. 



Branches smooth and never radicant. This and the smooth fruit are the only charac- 

 ters by which to distinguish this species from the last. In Bot. Mag. 54, t. 2767, Sir 

 W. Hooker suggested that it might be a variety only, and he founded this opinion on 

 tie circumstance that he believed he had seen a tendency in some of the fruits of E. 

 vagans to become echinate. 



24. E. Gri£Bthli, Eu/n in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, pt._ 2, 73; stem 

 Scandent acutely 4-angled or -winged, leaves 3-4 by l-l^ in. ovate or 

 oblong-lanceolate. Hippocratea angulata, Grif. Notul. iv. 473 ; Ic. PI. 

 As. iv. t. 581, f . i. 



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