Salacia.] xxxix. celastrine^e. 461 
1 in. through rugose (when dry) bright red. Hab. On the borders 
of woods. Singapore, Garden Jungle. Malacca (Maingay). 
Somewhat like S. Wrayi, but the leaves larger and the pedicels longer. 
(14) S. Maingayi Lawson, l.c. i. 626; King, l.c. 363. S. 
Lobbii Laivson, lx. 
Climber 6 to 15 ft. long. Branches minutely warty. Leaves 
coriaceous ovate-elliptic cuspidate, base rounded ; nerves prominent 
beneath, 5 to 7 pairs, 23 to 4-5 in. long, 1*25 to 2-05 in. wide; 
petioles *25 to *3 in. long. Flowers 1 or 2 in axils '45 in. across, 
greenish yellow; pedicels 3 in. long. Calyx lobes reniform. 
Petals oblong rounded. Disc deep glabrous. Stamens 3 attached 
to upper part of disc; filaments triangular. Ovary sunk in disc. 
Style none. Hab. Open jungle, hills, Perak, Larut Hills (Kunstler). 
Penang Hill (Maingay, Curtis). 
S. Lobbii Laws, appears to be a form of this with more oblong leaves and 
longer pedicels. 
Order XL. RHAMNE/E. 
Climbing shrubs, bushes, or small trees, often spiny. Leaves 
alternate rarely opposite, usually coriaceous, often tri-nerved and 
usually crenate or serrate. Flowers usually bisexual small green 
or yellowish in cymes axillary, or in false panicles. Calyx 4- or 
5-lobed, lobes triangular. Petals 4 or 5 on the throat of the calyx 
tube, hooded or lobed, very small. Stamens 4 or 5 opposite petals. 
Disc filling or lining the calyx tube. Ovary free or immersed in 
the disc, 3- rarely 2- or 4-celled; ovules one in a cell; style simple 
or 2- to 4-cleft. Fruit a capsule, samara or drupe, 3- or 1- to 
4-celled, free or half enclosed in the calyx tube. Species about 
420, whole world. 
Fruit superior drupaceous. 
Spiny trees or shrubs; disc 5-to 10-lobed . . 1. Zizyphus 
Slender climber, not spiny; disc cup-shaped lining 
tube . . . . . . • .2. Sageretia 
Shrub or tree, unarmed; disc thin lining tube . 3. Oreorhamnus 
Fruit half inferior dry; shrubs unarmed. 
Fruit capsular 3-celled; 3 seeds; bush or tree 
erect.4- Colubrina 
Fruit winged i-celled; seed i; climbers. 
Fruit indehiscent sub-globose with one narrow 
wing.5 - Ventilago 
Fruit dehiscent oblong or ovate lanceolate flat . 6. Smythea 
Fruit inferior 3-winged . . . . . * 7 - Gouania 
1 . ZIZYPHUS, Juss. 
Small trees, bushes or climbing shrubs with stipular straight 
or hooked prickles. Leaves alternate tri-nerved coriaceous. Flowers 
