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DICTIONARY 



Subclass II. CALYCIFL 



flower). D. C. prod. 2. p. 1. 



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and a short inferior radicle. The order is composed of shrubs, 

 having alternate or opposite, simple, rarely compound, rather co- 



sepals more or less connected together, especially at their base riaceous, entire, or toothed, feather-nerved, usually stipulate 

 (f. 1. a.). Torus more or less adnate to the inside of the calyx leaves, and axillary cymes of small whitish or greenish flowers. 



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Petals and stamens in- 



(f. 



Several of the species are favourite ornaments of our shrubberies, 

 as the Staphylea, the Celdstrus, and the Euonymus. The fruit 

 oi Euonyvitis Euroj)ce'us is a brisk purgative, as is also the inner 



from the calyx. Petals usually free (vol. 1. f, 2. 2. a.). Ovary bark, and in strong doses powerfully emetic. A decoction of the 



free or adnate to the calyx. 



if, 



twigs of Maytemts Boaria is used to bathe the swellings pro- 



appears to be a dilatation of the peduncle converted into petals duced by the poisonous shade of the tree Litri or LUtht, Rhus 

 and stamens, it is large and adnate to the calyx, and usually caustica. This order is distinguished from Rhdmnca; in the 

 bears the petals and stamens, sometimes it girds the stipe of sepals being imbricate in aestivation, not valvate, and in the 



ifi 



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Calyclflh 



most part, inserted in the calyx. In the ThalamM 



the 



stamens being alternate with the petals as w^ell as in the ovary 

 being wholly superior and in the petals being flat. It differs 

 from lUcinece in the petals being free and in the stamens being 



torus neither adheres to the calyx nor to the ovaries, which perigynous, and from Hippocratedcecef to which it has been 



Calyc'f/Ii 



Order LXIV. 



CELASTRFNEiE (plants agreeing with 

 Celdatrus in important characters). R. Br. gen. rem. p. 22, 

 D. C. prod. 2. p. 2. — Rhamneae, Spec. Juss. 



Calyx of 4-5 obtuse sepals (f. 1. a.) connected at the base, 



referred by R. Brown, in the stamens being free and perigynous, 

 not as in that order hypogynous and monadelphous. 



imbricate 



(f- 



Petals alternating with the 



sepals (f. 2. 6.), oblong, flat, rather fleshy, broadest at the 

 base, fixed under the margin of the disk, imbricate in aesti- 

 vation (f. 2. a.). Stamens (f. 2. c.) equal in number with 

 the petals, and alternate with them, inserted in the margin, 

 middle part, or superior part of the disk. Anthers 2-celled 

 bursting inwards. Disk large (f. 2. d.) expanded, flat, 

 closely girding the ovary, and covering the flat part of the 

 calyx. Ovary free, immersed in the disk, and adnate to it, 

 2-4"Celled ; cells 1 -seeded (f. 1. c.) Ova fixed to the inner angle 



of the cells by a short narrow podosperm, ascending. Raphe inte- seeded, 

 rior, Fruct or capsule never adherent, 2-4-valved, 2-4-celled, 

 with a dissepiment in the middle of each valve, or a dry drupe 

 containing a 2-celled nut ; cells 1 or many-seeded. Seeds as- 



Synopsis of the genera^ 



Tribe I. 



Staphylea cEiE. Seeds bony, truncate at the hilunif cxariU 

 late. Albumen wanting^ or very sparing. Leaves compound^ inn^ 

 nate^ or trifoliate. 



1 Staphyle^a. Calyx 5-parted (f. l.a.), with coloured seg- 

 ments. Disk urceolate. Petals 5. Stamens 5. Styles 2-3, some- 

 times connected. Capsule bladdery, 2-3-celled, few-seeded (f. 

 I.e.). 



2 Turpi'nia. Flowers polygamo-dioecious. Calyx 5-parted, 

 with coloured margins. Petals 5, inserted in a 10-crenated disk. 

 Styles 3, joined in one. Berry trigonal, 3-celled; cells 2-3- 



Tribe II. 



Euoky'me^. Seeds arillate, not truncate at the hylunu 

 cendent, rarely resupinate, suspended, arillate or exarillate. Embryo straight^ placed in the axis of a Jkshy albumen. Leaves 



Endosperm 



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Embryo straight, with flat, thick cotyledons 



simple. 



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