Celastrineae
This genus as now understood is restricted to the species mentioned below. A green house evergreen shrub, with opposite, smooth, coriaceous leaves, and axillary peduncles, bearing small flowers. It grows freely in a mixture of loam and peat; and ripened cuttings will readily strike root, if planted in a pot of sand, with a hand glass placed over them. C. concava (concave). Synonymous with Celastrus lucidus. C. Maurocenia (the old generic name, after Mauroceni, a Venetian senator and patron of botany). Hottentot Cherry. ft. at first greenish-yellow but changing at length to white; pedicels many, very short. July and august, l. sessile, obovate, quite entire, convex. h. 6ft. South Africa, 1690.