Bippocratea.] xli. celastrinbjj:. (M. A. Lawson.) 625 



W. & A. Prodff. 104 ; Balz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 32 ; Thwaites Enum. 52 : 

 Olio. Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 368 ; Brand. For. Fl. 83. H. disperma, Vcdil 

 Enum. ii. 28 ; Wall. Oat. 4210 in part. H. euonymoides, VaM Enum. ii. 

 28. H. obtusifolia, Roxb. Watt. Vat. 4211. Tonsella disperma, Poir.— 

 Celastrinea J Wall. Gat. 9013. 



In the hotter parts of India from Behar, the Concan, and Tenasserim southwards, 

 and in Ceylon. — Distkib. Malay Archipelago and Africa. 



A shrub with climbing branches. Leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, acute or subacu- 

 minate or lanceolate, finely serrate, membrstoous, glabrous. Flowers glabrous, exceed- 

 ingly small. Cymes many times divided ; partial cymes subumbellate. Petals ^ in., 

 usually 6, elliptic oval-oblong, concave. Ovules 2-4 in each cell. Fruit oblong. Wall. 

 Cat. 4111 B ? is evidently the same plant. 



7. K. arborea, Poxb. Eort. Beng. 5 ; Fl. Ind. i. 167 ; Cor. PI. t. 205 ; 

 leaves 4-7 by 2y-3i in., cymes and fruit 3 in. Wall. Cat. 4212; DO. 

 Prodr. 569 ; Brand. Fvr. Fl. 83. ? H. disperma, Wall. Oat. 4212 B. 



Interior parts of India, Boxh. ; Bhotak and the Khasia Mts., Griffith f Morung Mts., 



Subarboreous, with climbing branches. Leaves ovate-elliptio, subaouminate, serrate, 

 membranous, glabrous. Fruit of 3 carpels, cuneiform, 3 by 1 J in. — This ought probabiy 

 to be considered a variety of S. indica,, (rom which it differs apparently in nothing but 

 size. In the description given by Roxburgh of S. obtusifolia (Fl. Ind. i. 166) the 

 flowers are those of H. iridica proper, while the leaves belong to M. obtusifolia, Wight. 



*** Erect trees. 



8. K. Maing^ayl/Zawj. ; cymes 3-flowered, racemose. 



Malacca, Maingay. — Distrib. ? Borneo. 



Branches terete. Leaves 3 by | in., lanceolate, glabrous, coriaceous. Carpels tri- 

 qaetrous, 4-5 in., woody. Seeds S\-i^ in., oblong. 



12. SAIiACXA, Linn. 



Scandent or sarmentose shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 

 exstipulate. Flowers few or many, clustered in the axUs of the leaves or 

 extraf-axillary, more rarely in cymes. Oalyx small, 5-parted, Petals 5, 

 imbricate. Stamens 3, rarely 2 or 4, continuous with the disk, recurved. 

 Omw conical, immersed in the disk, 3-celled; style very short, stigma 

 simple or 3-lobed ; ovules 2-8 in each cell, in 1-2 s^eries, inserted on the inner 

 .angle. Fruitha.cca,i&, 1-3-celled, sub-woody or fleshy. Seeds large, angular. 

 •■^DiSTEiB. Species about 70, natives of the tropica of both hemispheres. 



* Flowers 1-6 from an axillary or extra-axillary tubercle. 

 a. Leaves coriaceous mostlp 6-12 in. 



1. S. flavescens, Kurz inJourn. As.'Soc. Beng. 1872, ptii. 300; leaves 

 6-12 by 2-3| in. oblong-lanceolate acute or subacuminate margins recurved, 

 flowers about 3 very small. Dryptopetalum coriaceum, Am. in Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. i. 373. Microtropis coriacea, Wall. Oat. 4338. M. longifolia, 

 Wall. Cat. 4339, in pwH. 



Eastern Peninsula, from Tenasserim, Oomee, &o., to Penang, Wallic%, &o. 



A small tree with black branches. ^ Leaves green glabrous and shining above, paler 

 beneath, drying light-yellow. Flowers axillary and extra- axillary, sessile or on pedicels 

 under J in. Fruit f The dark stems and light-coloured leaves, together with a general 

 aspect of a Microtropis, serve to distinguish this species from its allies. 



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