Tab. 7599. 

 CELASTRUS aetioulatus. 



Native of Eastern Asia. 



Nat. Ord. Celastkine^. — Tribe Celastre^k. 

 Genus Celastrus, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hoolc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i p. 364.) 



Celastrfs articulatu8 ; frutex 10-15-pedalia, ramosus, glaberrimns, caule 

 volubili, cortice pallido verrnculoso, ramulis rectis v. scandentibus, foliis 

 petiolatis 3-5-poll. longis oblongis ovatis orbicalaribusve obtuse acutatis 

 crenato-serratis viridibus subtus pallidis, stipulis filamentosis, floribus iu 

 cymas axillares subsessiles paucifloras dispositis breviter pedicellatis, 

 calycis campanulati tubo brevi, lobis brevibus subrotundis, petalis lineari- 

 oblongis obtusis recurvis viridibus, filamentis subulatis erectis disco 

 5-lobo insertis. ovario ovoideo in stylum columnarem produeto, stigmate 

 3-lobo, lobis majusculis recurvis, capsulis globosis, valvis intus flavidis 

 demnm reflexis semina arillo coccineo indnta nudantibus. 



C. articulatus, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 97. DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 7. Franch. et 

 Sav. En. PL Jap. vol. i. p. 80 ; PL David, p. 70. Bunge En. PL Gkin. 

 bar. p. 97. Miguel, Prolus, Fl. Jap. p. 17. Maxim. Mel. Biol. pars. xi. 

 p. 200. Forbes 8r Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 122. Sargent, 

 Gard. $r Forest, 1890, p. 551, et ie. p. 550. Gard. Chron. 1898, vol. i. 

 p. 28, f. 11. Phony o Zouphon, vol. xxx. fob 2, recto. 



C. auriculatus, Vitm. Summa, vol. ii. p. 31. 



C. orbiculatus, Lam. III. n. 2700. 



C. punctatuB, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 97. DC. 1, c. p, 6. 



A strong, rapid -growing, rambling and twining, deci- 

 duous shrub, well fitted according to Professor Sargent, 

 for clothing ruins, walls ten to fifteen feet high, and waste 

 stony places, having the further advantage of thriving 

 close to the sea, where it is uninjured by the salt spray. 

 It is a plant of very wide distribution in far Eastern Asia, 

 from the Island of Saghalin, Manchuria, Corea, and Japan, 

 to the Loo-choo Islands and Formosa ; and in China proper, 

 in hilly districts of the interior, from the North of Peking, 

 tollchang on the Yang-tse-Kiang, and to Amoy on the 

 coast. 



Seeds of G. articulatus were received by the Koyal 

 Gardens,. Kew, from Professor Sargent, Arnold Arboretum, 

 in 1891* plants raised from which grew vigorously, 



Jone 1st, 1898. 



