Microtropis.] 
XXXIX. CELASTRINEiE. 
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Order XXXIX. CELASTRINE^E. 
Trees or bushes, or lianes, sometimes spiny. Leaves opposite 
rarely alternate coriaceous often serrate. Flowers generally 
cymose small, usually bisexual. Calyx small 4- or 5-lobed. Petals 
4 or 5 insert below disc imbricate. Stamens 4 or 5 (except Hippo - 
cratea and Salacia 3 only). Disc usually large and conspicuous. 
Ovary sessile on disc or immersed in it, 3- or 5-celled; style short 
or none; ovules 2 to 4 in each cell anatropous, rarely 1 pendulous or 
many attached to axis. Stigma triangular. Fruit capsular, baccate 
or a drupe or samaroid. Seed often arillate, sometime? winged. 
Species 500, whole world (King, Journ. .4 s. Soc. Beng. lxv. 339). 
Stamens 4 or 5 ; filaments slender. 
Fruit dehiscent; leaves generally opposite. 
Ovules 2 in a cell. 
Petals connate ..... 
Petals free, clawed ..... 
Ovules solitary; petals bifoveolate 
Ovules 4 or more in a cell; seeds winged in 
large capsule; trees .... 
Disc free from ovary; stamens insert on 
edge; capsule 3-celled .... 
Disc confluent with ovary; stamens from 
beneath it ; capsule 3-ceIIed . 
Ovary free, with tuft of hairs at top; styles 2; 
capsule entire or 2-lobed; trees 
Drupe unilocular 1 or 2 seeds 
Fruit a dry compressed indehiscent drupe 1 or 2 
seeds ....... 
Fruit a berry; seeds 3 or 4 
Stamens 3; filaments broad flat. 
Climbers; fruit flat dehiscent; seed winged 
Climbers or shrubs; fruit pulpy indehiscent 
1 . MICROTROPIS, Wall. 
Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers in 
sessile clusters or pedunculate, cymes axillary or supra-axillary 
small sometimes unisexual. Sepals 4 or 5 imbricate. Petals 4 or 
5 connate at base or erect. Stamens 5, insert on disc or corolla. 
Disc 0 or small. Ovary free ovoid 2- or 3-celled; ovules 2 in each 
cell; style very short or 0. Stigma minute. Capsule ovoid or 
oblong coriaceous 2-valved, i-seeded, dehiscing on one side and 
falling, leaving the red pulpy arillate seed still attached. Species 
about 12, India, Ceylon, Java. 
Cymes sessile condensed under -5 in. long . . . (1) M. elliptica 
Cymes and peduncles 1 in. long or less. 
Leaves thin coriaceous oblong-lanceolate acuminate . (2) M. discolor 
Leaves coriaceous ovate-lanceolate blunt . . (3) M. ophirensis 
Cymes on long thin peduncles, 3- to 5-flowered; peduncles 
75 in. long ; petals ovate . . . . . (4) M. bivalvis 
1. Microtropis 
2. Euonymus 
3. Glyptopetalum 
4. Lophopetalum 
5. Celastrus 
6. Gymnosporia 
7. Kurrimia 
8. Pleurostylis 
9. El^eodendron 
10. Perrottetia 
xi. Hippocratea 
12. Salacia 
