Kokoona.] XLi. celastrine^. (M. A. Lawson.) 617 



meen above and glabrous, paler beneath and with numerous dart-red glandulav'dots. 

 Petals broadly ovate. Fruit 1-4 in., bluntly triangular. — An oil is expressed from the 

 seeds and used for burning in lamps. Thwaites. 



2. K. littoralis, Laws. ; leaves entire, petals sublamellate dotless, 

 fruit ovate-lanceolate acute. Trigonocarpus littoralis, Wall, Oat. 6520. 



Maiaooa, Maingay; Sinoapoee, Ldbh. 



A tall tree, always growing in the water. Leaves 34-4J in., elliptic, dotless. Petals 

 ovate. Fruit lJ-2 in. 



6. FI.ETrXlOSTYX.XA, WigM. 



A glabrous shrub. Leaves opposite, shortly petioled, entire, exstipulate. 

 Cymes axillary, very short, few-flowered. Gah/x small, 4-lobed. Petals 5, 

 much larger than the calyx.. Stamens 5, inserted below the disk ; con- 

 nective dilated at the back. Disk thick, crenulate. Ovary half immersed 

 in the disk, 2-celled or more commonly by abortion 1-celled ; style short, 

 stigma broadly peltate; ovules 2 in each cell, erect. Frwii 1-2-celled, 

 coriaceous, indehiscent. Seed 1 rarely 2, erect, covered by the arillus-like 

 endooarp, albumen fleshy abundant ; cotyledons orbicular. — Disteib. 

 Species 1 or 2 ; mountains of India, Ceylon, Mauritius and Madagascar. 



1. P. Wiffhtii, W. & A. Prodr. 157: Wight Ic. 155; Thwaites 

 Enum. 71 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 47. P. Heynei, W. & A. Prodr. 157. 

 Celastrus opposita. Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 398 ; Cat. 4314; 

 0. ?! Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 4322. 



Westekn PENDjauLA; Mountains of Malabar, Nilghiris, Quilon, and Courtallam. 

 Ceylon ; in the hot dry parts of the island. — Distbie. Mauritius and Madagascar. 



Leaves elliptic-oblong to narrow oblong-lanceolate. 



7. CEX.ASTRVS, Linn. 



Scandent shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled ; stipules minute and deci- 

 duous, or 0. Flowers polygamous, in terminal or axillary panicles or 

 racemes. Calyx 5-cleft; Petals 5, spreading. Bisk broad, concave. 

 Stamens 5, inserted on the margin of the disk. Ovary not immersed in the 

 disk, 2-4-celled ; style short, stigma 3-lobed, rarely 3-fid with the segments 

 recurved: ovules 2 in each cell, erect. Capside globose or obovoid, 

 1-3-ceUed, 1-6-seeded. Seeds enveloped in a fleshy aril, albumen fleshy : . 

 cotyledons foliaceous. — Disteib. Species scarcely 15, natives of tropical 

 Asia, China, Japan, Australia and North America. 



I. Branches covered with pale lenticular warts. , 



1. C. paniculata, WUld. Sp. PI. i. 1125 ; calyx-segments half-orbi- 

 cular, petals, i in. obovate-oblong entire, style acute not lobed, fruit 3-celled 

 3-6-seeded, seed i in. ovoid brown. Wall. Gat. 4310 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 621 ; 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 6 : W. & A. Prodr. 158; Wight III. 179, t. 72; Ic. t. 158; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 82 ; DaM. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 47 ; Thwaites Enum. 72 ; Voigt 

 Brnt. Svh. Calc. 166. C. alnifoUa, Dm Prodr. 190 ; DC. Prodr. u 6. 0. 

 dependens. Watt. Cat. 4302; Voigt HoH. Svh. Calc. 166. C. multiflora, 

 Roxb. PI. Ind. i. 622. C. nutans, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 623; Wall Cat. 4301. 

 C. Rothiana, Bom. & Schvlt. Syst. v. 423 ; DC Prodr. ii. 8. C. Metziana, 

 Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1858, 447. Ceanothus paniculatus. Both Nov. 

 Sp. 154. Scutia paniculata, Don Gen. Syst. ii. 34. 



Tropical and Subtropical Himalaya, alt. 1-4000 ft., ; Panjab, and throughout 

 the hilly districts of India, ascending_ to 3000 ft.; Ceyloh, ascending to 2000 tt.— 

 Disteib. Malay Archipelago, and Philippine Islds. 



