612 I. CELASTRINE^. (M. A. Lawson.) 



Biema; on rocks at Loonkaram and Delvi Nempean on the north from Assam, 

 Griffith. 



Leaves sessile or subsessile, serrate, subbullate. Pedwncles twicfe divided. Petah 

 jV in-, white, orbicular, entire, shortly clawed. Style -^ in. Fruit ? 



25. E. tbesefolius, Wall. Cat. 4293 ; a small erect shrub, branches 

 terete, leaves 2-3 by |-l| in. ovate or oblong-lanceolate coriaceous. 



Centkal and Eastern Himalaya ; Nipal, Wallick; Sikkim, alt. 5-8000 ft., /. D. H. ; 

 Khasia Mts., alt. '4^6000 ft., Griffith, &c. ... 



Peduncles about twice divided, short, slender. Petals reddish, orbicular, entire, 

 J in. Style -}^ in. Fruit the size of a large pea, nearly round, obscurely 4-angled, 

 1-seeded. 



26. E. pendulus, WaU. in Roxb. M. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 406; 

 Cat. 4280 ; a small tree with slender pendulous branchlets, leaves 4r-6 ia 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate sharply serrate coriaceous smooth and shining 

 above, petals fimbriate. Brand. For. Fl. 79. E. lucidns, Don Prodr. 191 

 ?DC. Prodr. ii. 4. E. japonicus. Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 

 405 {not Thunb.). 



Tempeeate Himalaya ; from Garwhal, Falconer, to Nipal, WaUich; East Bekoal, 

 Grimh. 



Branches terete. Peduncles much compressed, fascicled. Petals 4, \ in., white, 

 ovate-oblong, fimbriate. Stamens and style J in. Fruit ^ in., obtriangular, with 4 taper- 

 ing wings. — This is quite distinct from E. japonicus, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 100, of which 

 there is a good plate in Kaimpf. Ic. Select, t. 8. 



27. E. Hamiltonianus, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Irtd. ed. Gar&y, iL 403 ; 

 Gat. 4279 ; a shrub with terete branches, leaves 3-6 in. ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate very finely serrate membranous, petals entire. Brand. For. Fl. 

 78, t. xvi. E. atropurpureus, Roscb. Fl. Ind. i. 627 {nan Jacq). 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 5-6000 ft., from Kashmir, Falconer, to Kumaon, Strach 

 & Wint.; Khasia Mts., alt, 5-6000 ft., Griffith, &c. 



Peduncles about 7-flowered. Petals J in., cordate-lanceolate with revolute margins. 

 Stamens and styh J in. Fruit turbinate, 4-lobed. 



2. GXiVPTOFETAXiUm, Thwaites. / 



Erect shrubs or small trees, glabrous. Leaves opposite, petioled, ex- 

 stipulate. Cymes 3- or more-flowered. Calyx with 4 short spreading lobes. 

 Petals 4, with 2 pit-Hke depressions on the upper surface. Stamens 4, in- 

 serted above the disk ; the connective dilated : anther-cells diver^ng. 

 Disk 4-lobed. Ovary immersed in the disk, 4-lobed, 4-celled ; style short, 

 stigma capitate ; ovules solitary and pendulous from the top of each cell! 

 Capsule subglobose, coriaceous, 1-4-ceUed, 1-4-seeded. Seeds as in 

 Fuonymus.—DiSTSiB. Species 3. Ceylon, Southern India, and Malayan 

 peninsula. 



1. G. zeylanicum, Thwaites in Eobk Km Joum. viii. 268, t vii. B : 

 Enum. 73; leaves 41-6 by li-2i in., cymes not half as long as the leaves. 

 Bedd. Jfl. Sylv. Anal. Oen. Ixiv. 



u^o^f^?^ ^™™?J^^: Anamallay hUls, 5crf&me; Ceylon, in the Central provincB, 

 alt. 3000 ft., Thwaaes. ^ ' 



A large shrab or tree, 30-40 ft. Leaves snbooriaceous or membranous, oblong or 

 oblong-lanceiolate or elliptic, serrate or entire. Cymes short, robust. 2-3 times divided, 

 Bupra-axiUary. Petals J in., oblong. Fruit the size of a smaU cherry, greenish, smooth: 

 pedicels 4 in., straight. /' ^ ' ' 



