Flora Medica

CELASTRACEJE.414. C. paniculatusWilld. sp.i. 1125. Roxb. fl.ind. i. 621.DC. prodr.ii. 6. W. and A. i. 1 58. C. nutans Roxb.fi. ind.i. 623. DC. prodr.ii. 6. C. Rothianus DC. prodr.ii. 8.Circar mountains, Mysore, &c.Unarmed, climbing. Young shoots and flower-bearing branchespendulous. Leaves broadly oval or ovate or obovate, usually with asudden short acumination, slightly serrated, glabrous. Racemes terminal,compound or supra-decompound, elongated, much longer thanthe uppermost leaves. Calyx-lobes rounded, ciliated. Margin of thedisk thin, free. Capsule globose, 3-celled, 3-6-seeded. Seed with acomplete arillus. W. and A. A stimulant and useful medicine accordingto Dr. Royle. (Ittustr. 167.)MAYTENUS.Flowers polygamous. Calyx 5-cleft, small, permanent. Petals5, spreading. Stamens 5. A fleshy disk round the ovary.Capsule 1-4-valved, loculicidal. Seeds a few in the bottom ofthe cells, furnished with an aril.men. DC.Embryo plane, in fleshy albu-415. M. chilensis DC. prodr.ii. 9. Sot. Peg. xx. 1. 1702Senacia Maytenus Lam. ill. n. 2712. Celastrus Maytenus Willd.i. 1127. Mayten Feitill. obs. iii. 39. t. 27. Chili.A small tree. Leaves alternate, simple, coriaceous, evergreen, ovatelanceolate,tapering a little at the base and very much at the apex,serrated. Flowers axillary, fascicled, herbaceous, minute. Petalsoblong, obtuse, concave, much larger than the teeth of the calyx.Stamens shorter than the petals. Capsules the size of a pea, turbinate,cinereous, coriaceous, 2-valved, 2-seeded. Seeds 2, erect, with anorange-coloured A aril. decoction of the young branches used inChili as a wash for swellings produced by the poisonous shade of thetree Lithi. DC.198