CELASTRACEAE 817 
FaAwiLY 6. CELASTRACEAE — Srarrrree FAMILY 
Shrubs or trees, or vin Leaves alternate, opposite, or whorled: 
blades simple. Flowers perfect, polygamous, or dioec ae variously borne. 
Calyx of 3-5 sepals. Corolla of 3-5 petals. ave m of 3-5 stamens 
borne on or ee lys disk. Gynoecium of nited ea Fruit a 
capsule, a dru a be Seed often ie Aan 45 pene and 
375 species, widely distributed | in temperate and warmer region 
Fruits capsular, dehiscent. I. CELASTREAE. 
Fruits drupaceous, indehiscent. II. RHACOMEAE. 
I. CELASTREAB 
Leaves opposite. 
Ovary 3- -celled : capsule 3—5-lobed: 3—5-valved: aril red: 
anther-sacs divergent. 1. EUONYMUS. 
Ovary 2-celled: capsule not lobed, 2-valved: aril white: 
anther-sacs paralle 1, 2. PACHYSTIMA. 
joues alternate. 
Climbing woody vines: ovary free. 3. CELASTRUS. 
Erect shrubs: ovary confluent with the disk. 4. MAYTEN 
II. RHACOMEAE 
Flowers perfect: ovary 4-celled : fruit oblique 5. RHACOMA. 
Flowers dioecious : ovary 2-celled : fruit not oblique. 
Leaves opposite : flower-clusters peduncled: calyx deciduous: 
drupe not lobed. 6. GYMINDA. 
Leaves alternate: flower-clusters sessile: calyx persistent: 
drupe lobed. T. SCHAEFFERIA, 
1. EUONYMUS [Tourn.] L. Shrubs, often weak-stemmed, trees, or 
rarely vines. pans beu biis entire or toothed. Flowers perfect. 
Sepals 4 or 5. Petals 4 or 5. Stamens 4 or 5, borne on the lobes of the disk: 
filaments very een ae. -sacs Donum Stigmas 3-5. Capsules droop- 
ing.—About 65 species, in the north temperate zone. 
sile or nea rly so: oe slightly lobed, warty. 
Sepals eciliate: petals orbicular-ovate suborbicular, manifestly broad-clawed : 
capsule copiously warty. 1. E. americanus. 
Sepals erose-ciliate: petals orbicular-reniform, clawless: 
capsule ‘sparingly warty. 2. E. obovatus. 
Cymes mostly 5-many-flow ered : sepals, petals, and stamens, 
typicaliy 4: leaf-blades petioled : capsule deeply lobed, 
ooth. . E. atropurpurea. 
1. E. americanus L. Erect or straggling shrub 2 m. tall or less: leaf-blades 
oval to pau 2-10 em. long, acute or acuminate, erenate-serrate: calyx 
about 5 mm. wide: ye usually 5, equal: 
corolla Boni over 1 em. wide; etals Men 
ish or greenish-purpl filaments arising 
Brom the edge of the disk ; anthers fully 1 
m..wide: seed-body 4.5-5.5 mm. long.— 
(STRAWBERRY-BUSH. )—Rich ined bes 
and hammocks, various provinces, N pen 
Fla. to Tex., Nebr., and N. Y —Spr-sum. 
2. E. obovatus Nutt. Shrub with a 
often rooting branches: leaf-blade 
em. ; 
obovate, 2-6 long, mostly obtuse, crenu- 
late-serrulate: calyx about 
sepa ually 5, erose-ciliate, equal 
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purple, about 3 mm. wide: filaments ri 
from the top of the "disk: anthers fully 
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