.] XLi. CELASTRiNE^. (M. A. Lawson.) 619 



sinuate or lobed. Ovary attached by a broad base, or immersed in the 

 disk, 2-3-celled ; style short, 2-3-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule 

 obovoid, or nearly globose. Seeds 1-2 in each cell, aril completely or par- 

 tially covering the seed, or 0, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons foliaceous. — 

 DiSTEiB. Speoie.s 60, natives of the hotter parts of the whole world. 



* Branches unarmed. 



1. G. acuminata, Hook. f. ; leaves 5-8 by 2-3| in. ovate-oblong 

 acuminate serrate membranous glabrous. Celastrus oxyphylla, Wall. 

 Gal. 4312. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, ait. 2-5000 ft., J.JD.E.; KhasiaMts., alt. 4-5000 ft.; Eastekn 

 Peninsula and Birma, Griffith. — Disteib. Yunan. 



A shrub with semewhat slender branches. Flowers in very delicate fasciculate 

 dichotomous cymes ^1 in. long. Petals -^ in., oblong-elliptic, reddish. FruU J-i in., 

 roundly obcordate, somewhat eompressed, 2-celled, 2-seeded, black. 



2. G. neg^lecta, Wall. Cat. 4341 (under Celastrus) ; leaves 4^6 by 2-2|in. 

 ovate-eUiptic acute or subacuminate entire or very faintly serrate towards 

 the apex very coriaceous glabrous. C. 1 attenuata, WaU. vat 431 9. 1 Bseo- 

 totrys acuminata. Wall. Cat. 2321. 



NiPAL and Silhet, WaUick. 



A shrub ? with thick stout branches. Flowers 4-1 in. long, in very delicate di- 

 chotomous cymes. Petals as in 0. acuminata. Fruit nearly globose, about \ in., 

 light yellow, 3-ceUed, 1^3-seeded. 



3. G. salicifolia, Laws. ; leaves 3-4 by \-\ in. narrowly lanceolate 

 serrate glabrous. 



Assam, Simons. 



A shrub ? with erect slender dart-coloured branches. Flowers in slender di-tricho- 

 tomons cymes 1-2^ in. long. Petals ^^ in., suboval, conpave, pinkish-white. IWitf 



4. G. oblanceolata, Laws.; leaves 3-4 by 4-f in. oblanceolate 

 tapering into the petiole serrate in the upper half coriaceous glabrous, mar- 

 gins revolute in the lower half, 



BtBHA, Griffith. 



A tortuous shrijb with smooth blackish branches. Flowers in delicate trichotomous 

 cymos J-1 in. long. Fruit ? 



5. G. puberula, Laws. ; leaves 2-2i by l^-li in. broadly obovate 

 snbacuminate serrate-crenate membranous puberulous on me nerves 

 beneath. 



Bombay, Law. 



A shrub with stout branches, young branches and peduncles puberulous. Flowers 

 in slender dichotomous cymes 2-8 in. long, which are axillary or fascicled at the ends 

 of short branches. Fruit obovate, J in. ? I 



6. G. fruticosa, Thwaites Enum. 73 (under Catha) ; leaves |-li by 

 H in. oblong-spathulate crenate-serrate glabrous. 



Cetlon ; Central province, ^c, Thwaites. 



A shrub, 8-10 ft. ; young branches angular. Flowers in corymbose cymes shorter 

 than the leaves ; pedicels J in., aiform. Fruit J-J in., turbinate, reddish brown, with 

 faint transverse striffi, 3-celled, cells 1-seeded. Seeds red, shining, aril small, whitish. 

 —Very like some of the unarmed forms of G. montana, but it may be known from 

 tbem by the blender filiforni pedicels and the colour of the capsules. 



7. G. ovata, Wall. Cat. 4308 (under Celastms) ; leaves l|-3 by Ij-lf in. 

 roundly ovate or subovate serrate coriaceous glabrous. W. & A. Frodr. 159. 

 Catha ovata, Walp. Rep. i. 532. 



