CELASTRINEiE. I. Staphylea. II. Turpinia. III. Euonymus. 



3 



minate, rather scabrous ; serratures awned, protruding from the 

 recesses of the crenas ; styles villous ; capsule with 2 beaks. 



Panicle^Qowered Turpinia. Tree 25 feet. 



2 T. coRYMBosA ; flowers panicled, corymbose; leaflets 5-7, 



Native of Japan, on the mountains. Bumalda trifolia, oval, acuminate, bluntly sinuate-crenate, quite smooth ; styles 



Thunb. fl. jap* p. 8. Flowers white. 



Bumalda's ox Japan Bladder-nut. 

 Shrub G f^^i. 



Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1812. 



distinct. T2 . S. Native of Jamaica. Staphylea corymbosa, 

 D. C. prod. 2. p. 3. Leaflets opposite. 



Cor?/i>i6o5(?-flowered Turpinia. Tree 30 feet. 



3 1\ occiBENTA^xis ; flowcrs pauicled ; Icavcs doubly pinnate ; 



leaflets ovate, acuminate, serrated, smooth ; styles distinct. 



Tj . S. Native of Jamaica, on the mountains. Fruit about the 



quite smooth, with callous serratures; flowers disposed in race- 

 mose panicles ; capsules coriaceous, not bladdery. Tj , S. Na- 

 tive of Peru, in groves. Flowers white. 



Varlahlc-lcaved Bladder-nut. Shrub 12 feet. 



FIG. 1. 



* * Leaves im^oari-jnnnate. 



3 S. heterophy'lla (Ruiz et Pav. fl. per. 3. p. 20. t. 253. f. 

 A.) petioles biglamlular ; leaflets 3-5 or 7, oblong-lanceolate, size of a cherry. Leaflets alternate. Stipuhis in pairs between 



the pinnae. Staphylea occidentalis, Swartz, fl. ind. occ. 1. p. 

 56G. exclusive of the synonyms. Flowers white. 



W^e^/cm Turpinia. Clt. 1824. Tree 30 feet. 



4 T. pomi'fera (D. C. prod. 2. p. 3.) branches of panicle all 

 opposite ; leaves ternate or pinnate, bluntly serrated. Tj . S. 

 Native of the East Indies, in Silhet and probably in Nipaul. 

 Its vernacular name in Silhet is Junhi-javi* Dalrymplea pomi- 

 fera, Roxb. cor. 3. p. 276. t. 279. Panicle spreading. Leaflets 

 3-7, opposite, 5-G inches long. Fruit yellow when ripe, roundish, 

 3-lobed, almost smooth, size of a large medlar, very fleshy. 

 Flowers yellowish- white. 



Pome-hearing Turpinia. Fl. May. Clt. 1820. Tree 20 feet. 



Cult, These trees possess very little beav\ty, they are there- 

 fore hardly worth cultivating, unless in general collections. 

 They will thrive well in a mixture of loam and peat, ond cuttings 

 will strike root in a pot of sand under a hand-glass, in heat. 



Tribe II. 



EUONY'MEiE (plants agreeing with Exionymus in important 

 characters). D. C. prod. 1. p. 3. Seeds arillate, not truncate 

 at the hylum. Embryo erect in the axis of a fleshy albumen. 

 Cotyledons leafy. — Shrubs and trees with simple leaves. 



Ill, EUO^NYMUS (from evg, ens, good, and ovo/ta, onoma, 



4 S. pinna'ta (Lin. spec. 386.) 

 petioles without glands ; leaflets 

 5 to 7, oblong-lanceolate, quite 

 smooth, serrated ; flowers race- 

 mose ; styles 2 ; capsules mem- 

 branous, bladdery. T2 • H. Na- 

 tive of Europe, in hedges and 

 thickets. In England, about Pon- 

 tefract and other parts of York- 



shire ; 



about Ashford, Kent. 



Smith, engl. bot. t. 15G0. Sta- 



phylodendronpinnatum, Ray. syn. 

 4C8. Duh. arb. 2. t. 77. A 

 smooth branching shrub with fo- 

 liage resembling some kind of ash. 

 Flowers white 



or 



of 



a 



pale 

 greenish-yellow, bell-shaped, pen- 

 dulous, inodorous. Haller says 

 children eat the kernels, but according]: to Gerarde their first 



sweetness is succeeded by a nauseous taste, and an emetic a name, well-named; by antiphrasis fetid). Tourn. inst. t. 388. 

 effect. The nuts being hard and smooth, are strung for beads Lin. gen. 271. JD. C. prod. 2. p. 3. Koxb. fl. ind. 2. p. 402. 

 by the Roman Catholics in some countries. Singularity rather 

 than beauty procures this plant a place in gardens. 

 • PimiateAeaved or Common Bladder-nut. Fl. June. Britain. (f. 2. h.) -6, spreading, inserted in the disk. Stamens 4-G, in- 



LiN. SYST. Tetra-Hexdndria, Monogynm. Calyx 4 (f. 2. a.) 

 or 5-lobed, flat, covered by the peltate disk at the base. Petals 4 



Shrub 4 to 12 feet. 



serted above the disk in rather prominent glands, alternating 



CulL These shrubs possess very little beauty, but answer with the petals (f 2. c.). ^ Style^ 1. Capsule 3-5-celled, 3-5- 



angled, bearing a dissepiment in 



the middle of each valve- 



very well to mix with other shrubs for variety. They w^ill grow 



in any common soil, and are easily increased by taking the Seeds 1-4 in each cell, enwrapped in pulp or aril. Embryo 



green, straight, placed in the middle of a fleshy albumen. 

 Shrubs with tetragonal or terete branches, and ovate, usually op- 

 posite leaves, scarcely stipulaceous. Peduncles axillary. Shrubs, 



suckers from the roots, by layers, or by cuttings put in the 

 ground in September. The S. heterophylla and ;S'. Bumalda 



will require protection during frost. 



M 



French botanical artist and naturalist, author of several articles in 



fetid in every part when bruised, and esteemed poisonous. 



Petals ohlongy ovalj or ovate. 



). Vent, choix. 1803. 



European. 



p. 31. t. 31. but not of Humb. nor Pers. nor Rafin. B.C. 1 E. Europ^'us (Lin. spec. 286. 



FIG. 2. 



prod. 2. p. 3. 



LiK. 



SYST. 



Dalrymplea, Roxb. cor. 3. p. 276. 



Polygamla^ D'wecia^ or Dioecia, Pentdndria. 



var. a, exclusive of the synonym 

 of Clus.) branches smooth; leaves 



Flowers polygamous or dioecious. Calyx 5 -parted, permanent, ovate-lanceolate, finely serrated ; 

 with coloured ' ----- - . . ^ ,, ^ ^ i 



with the sepal 



with coloured edges. Petals 5, inserted in the disk, alternating peduncles usually 3-flowered ; pe- 



Stamens 5, inserted in a 10-crenate disk, al- 



" " ' Styles 3 joined in 



ternating with the petals. Ovary trigonal. ^ 

 one, or distinct. Berry trigonal, 3-celled ; cells 2-3-seeded. — 

 Trees with the habit of Staphylea^ with smooth, opposite, im- 

 pari-pinnate leaves, and stalked, ovate, acuminated, serrated 

 leaflets. Flowers white, disposed in panicles. 



tals oblong, acute ; lobes of cap- 

 sule 5, blunt. Tj • H. Native of 

 Europe in hedges and thickets. 



Plentiful in Britain. 



bot. t. 362. 



E. vul 



Smith, engl. 

 Bull. herb. t. 135. 

 Mill. diet. no. 1. 



(Vent, choix. 1803. p. and t. 31.) upper Flowers small, greenish- white, fetid. 



branches of panicle alternate. Tj . S. Native of St. Domingo Capsides of a fine rose-colour, 5- 



celled, 5-valved ; cells 1-seeded. 



From its 



on the mountains, as well as of Mexico. Dalrymplea Domin- 

 gensis, Spreng. syst. 1. p. 771. Flowers loosely panicled. 

 Leaflets 7, 2 inches long, edged with glandular serratures. 

 Fruit blue, 3-furrowed, very bluntly 3-lobed. 



seeds orange-coloured, 

 use for skewers it has the 

 of Prickwood^ and is 



name 

 called by 



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