1806.] , King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, S39 
Materials for a Flora of tJie Malayan Peninsula. — By George King, 
M.B-, LL.D., F.R.e., C.l.E., Superintendent of the Uoyul Botanic 
Garden, Calctttta. 
m, 8. 
[Bocd. 18th May, Eead 3rd June.] 
Order XXX L CELASTBiNEiE. 
Erect or climbing trees or shrubs. Branches sometimes spinosceot. 
Leaves opposite or alternflte, more or leas coriaceoTis, simplo, petioled, 
rarely subfiessile^ entire or serrate ; stipules caducous or 0. Flowers 
liormapHrodite or polygamous, usually cyraose. Calyx small, with 4 or 
5 imbricate lobes, peraieteut. Petals 4-5, i-ately 0, inserted' below the 
disc or continuous with its margin, imbricate. Stamens 3-5, rarely 2, 
filaments subulate or flattened; anthers 2 -celled. Disc nsually ponspi- 
cuo«s, pulvinate or flattened, lobed je entire, rarely 0. Ovary sessile, 
the disc free at the base or confluent with it, S-S-celled ; style short or 0 ; 
Btigma fi'iangular, rarely S-partite* Ovules 2 or 4 in each cdl, anati-o- 
pous, erect, rarely 1 and pendulous ; or many, ascending and attached 
to the axis. Fruit capsular, baccate, drnpaoeous or samaroid. Seed 
ariPi.'e or exarillate, sometimes winged, albumjen fleshy or 0; embryo 
■asnally large ; cotyledons foliaceous, flat. — Distrtb. Species about 500, 
scattered over the tropical and teropemte regions of the whole world. 
Tribe I. CBLASTBniKJ:, Starnens 4 or 5 ; the fiiaraents slender, • 
often- recurved, inserted on or beneath the margin of the diao. ''Seah 
(except in Kokooria) albiiminoua. 
Frnifc dehiscent, leaves opposite (eometimes alternate in Lophopetalum). 
Ovules 2 in the axis of eacli .cell, petals 
efoveolate. 
Petals connate, seeds not arillate 
Petals free, seeds arillate 
Ovules 1 in each cell, pendulous; petals 
bifoveolate, seeds arillate . ... 
""vules 4 or more in each cell ; seeds winged. 
Petals inappendieulate ; disc cupniar, 
the stamens inserted on its edge or on 
the inner yertical surface of its up- 
turned edge ; ovary not buried in the 
disc 
Petals lamellate or crested on the upper 
surface; disc broadly orbicular, flat, the 
stamens inserted half way between the 
1, MicaoTROPifl. 
2, Edonymus. 
3, Glyptopetalum. 
4, Kqkoona, 
