-Jwrwia.J xli. celastrineje. (M. A. Lawson.) 623 



A large tree. Leaves 3-6 ty i-3 in., ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, the apex often 

 reflexed. i^Zoiccrs sessile, in slender panicled spikes. Petois elliptic, A in. Fruit 

 reddish brown, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed nearly covered by the aril. 



Var. montana, Thwaiies, l.c: ; panicles smaller and more succulent, flowers larger 



Central province, ascending to 5000 ft. 



10. EIiSODENDXtOlT, Jacq. f. 



Small trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or subopposite, crenate or 

 entire. Flowers in axUlary diohotomous cymes, often polygamous.. 

 Calyx 6-cleft. Petals 5, spreading. Disk thick. Stamens 5; anthers 

 nearly globose. Ovari/ continuous with the disk, conical, rarely 2-4- or 

 5-celled ; style very short ; ovules 2 in each cell. J^ru'U succulent or dry 

 1-2-celled, iadehiscent; cells 1- rarely 2-seeded. Seed without an aril' 

 albuminous.— DiSTEiB. About 30 species, natives of South Africa, Tro- 

 pical Asia, America and Australia. 



1. E. ^laucum, Pers. Synops. i. 241; Roocb.Fl. Ind. i. 638: Wall 

 Cat. 4325 ; JDO. Prodr. ii. 10 ; Thwaites Enum. 73 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. 

 Gen. Ixvii. E. Koxburghii, W. & A. Prodr. 157 ; Ch-ah. Gat. Bomb. PI. 38 • 

 Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 48 ; Wight III. 178, t. 71 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 Anal. Gen. 67 ; Fl. Sylv. 148 ; Brand. For. Fl. 82. E. paniculatani 

 F. SA. Prodr. 157. E. oxyodon, Turcz. in Bull. Sac. Nat. Mosc. 1863, pt. i! 

 603. Celastrus glaucus, VaM Symb. ii. 42. Mangifera glauoa, Potlb. in 

 Nov. Act. Ham. ii. 534, t. 4, f . i. Euonymus grossa, WaU. in Boxb. Fl. Ind. 

 ed. Carey, ii. 408 ; Cat. 4291. E. Tina, Mam. in Wall. Cat. 4292. Neerija 

 dichotomat Sosc^. Fl. Ind. i. 646. Rhamnus Neerija, Spreng. Syst. Veg. 

 Suppl. 86. Schrebera albens, Willd. Sp. PI. i. 1092. 



Throughout the hotter parts of India and CETLOif. — Disteib. Malay Archipelago. 



Leaves 2-6 by |-2J in., elliptic or ovate, acute or acuminate, crenate or nearly entire, 

 membranous or subcoriaceous. Flowers in diffuse diohotomous cymes. Fruit woody 

 obovoid, 4 in., tipped at the apex with the persistent style, 1-celled, 1-seeded. — So far 

 as,foliage is concerned this is a most variable species. 



Var. 1. montanum, Thwaites Env/m. 73 ; fruit J in. globose very hard and woody 

 1-celled 1-seeded brown.— Cetlost, in hot drier parts of the Island. 



Var. 2. leaves 2J by 1 in. oblong-elliptic subacumiuate, fruit J in. round succulent 

 2-celled black. — Canara, Bitchie. 



11. KXPPOCRATEA, Linn. 



Small trees or scandent shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled; stipules 

 small, caducous. Flowers small, white or greenish, disposed in axulary 

 cymes, more rarely in terminal cymose panicles. Calyx small, 5-parted. 

 Pelah 5, spreading, much larger than the calyx, imbricate or valvate. 

 Stamens 3, recurved, lying in the grooves of the ovary. Disk conical or 

 capular. Ovary surrounded by the disk, 3-celled ; style very short or 0, 

 stigmas 1-3 ; ovules 2-10 in each cell, in 2-series, inserted on the inner angle. 

 Fruit of 3-flattened carpels connate at the base, usually dehiscent. Seeds 

 compressed, usually winged below, exalbuminous. — Disteib. Species about 

 60, natives of the tropics of both hemispheres. 



* Petals \-^ in. — Shriobs with climbing branches^ 



1. K. obtuslfolia, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 166; calyx-lobes triangular, 

 petals i in. subulate puberulous. W. & A. Prodr. 104 ; Wight III., i. 134j 

 h. t. 936; DC. Prodr. i. 569; Thwaiies Enum, 62. H. barbata> F. MueU. 



