622 iLi. CELASTHiNE^. (M. A. Lawson.) [Ekmmia. 



Flowers in simple or paniculately disposed racemes. CWw 5-fid or -lobed, 

 recurved. Fetals 5, inserted under the margin of the disk, spreading or 

 recurved. Stattiens inserted with the petals. Bisk fleshy, 5-lobedv Ovary 

 free, glabrous or puberulous at the base, crowned at the top with a tuft of 

 hairs ; styles 2 filiform, stigmas small capitate ; ovules 2 in each cell, erect. 

 Capsule entire or 2-lobed, 1-2-cblled, dehiscing slowly with 2 valves, 1-2- 

 seeded. Seeds erect, completely or partially covered by a fleshy aril, 

 albumen abundant fleshy; cotyledons linear-oblong.— Distkib. India, 

 Ceylon, Malayan Peninsula 



* Flowers in simple spikes. 



1. K. pulcberrima, WaU. Cat. 4334 ; petals eUiptic-oblong A- in., disk 

 slightly puberulous forming a shallow crenate cup round the glabrous base 

 of the ovary, fruit narrowly oblong. K. calophylla, WaU. Cat. 4335. K 

 robusta, Kurz mss. Rhesa Moja, Ham. mss. ex Am. in Ed. Phil. Joum xvi. 

 315 ; Walp. Rep. i. 538. Celastrus robustus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 626. Nothbc- 

 nestis sumatrana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 531. 



The Khasia Mts., Silhet and Chittaoono ; ascending to 3000 ft. ; Birma, Griffith ; 

 Tenasseeim, Heifer; Sikcapoee, Wallich. — Distkib. Sumatra. 



A tree. Leaves 4-7 by 1-2 in., oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, glossy above. 

 Spikes glabrous. Fruit 1^-2 in., the apex often produced into a beak, l-celled, 

 l-seeded. 



2. Ki. Maingayl, Laws. ; petals ^ in. linear-oblong, disk puberulous 

 forming a crenate cup round the puberulous ovary, fruit broadly oblong 

 acute. 



SiNOAPOKE, Maingay. 



A tree. Leaves 5-9 by 3i-4 in., elliptic-oblong, l^kes glaucous. Fruit 1-14 ">•— 

 Closely allied to the last species, of which it may prove to be a variety. 



** Flowers in panicled spikes or racemes. 



3. K. paniculata, Wall. Cat. 4336 ; fruit f in. unequally 2-lobed, lobes 

 diverging. Ehesa paniculata, Am. in, Ed. Phil. Joum. xvL 315 ; WcHp. 

 Rep. i. 538. Trochisandra indica, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 120 ; Fl. Syh. AnM. 

 Gen. Ixvii. Pyrospermum calophyllum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 402. 



Penasq, Wallich, &c. ; Sihcapokb, Maingay ; abundant in Anamallay Hills, Bed- 

 dome — Distkib. Sumatra. 



A tree. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 6-12 by 2-3 in. Flowers shortly pedicellate, in 

 stoiitish paniculate racemes. Petals obovate-oblong, flat. Disk lobed, glabrous. Ova/ry 

 glabrous beneath the tuft of hairs* Fruit with the smaller lobe abortive, the larger 

 l-seeded. — I have seen no specimen of Beddome's Trochisandra indica, but from hiB 

 description and figure I am not able to distinguish it from the above. • 



4. Ki. blpartita, Laws. ; fruit Ij in. divided nearly to the base into 

 2 equal nearly parallel lobes. 



Western Peninsula ; Shivagherry hills, 'Wight. 



ieawes 3-8 by l|-3 in., elliptic-oblong. Ponic^es stoutish. Flowers? Fruit-lobes 

 narrowly oblong, rounded at the apex, black, l-seeded. Seed not half covered by the aril. 



5. Ki. ceylanica, Am. Pug-, in Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xviii. pt. i 328 ; 

 fruit f in. elliptic or eUiptic-oblong not lobed. Thwaites Enum. 72 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 147. 



Ceylon ; wann moist parts of \h.i island. 



