_PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. - + 157 
ted at the base. Calyx of the male flower sfiortly campa- 
nulate; glandular disk penetrating and filling the tubular 
attenuated base of the calix. Hermaphrodite, calix tur- 
binate-campanulate, 5-cleft, segments ovate, reflected, 
glandular disk more conspicuous; stamina opposite the 
a, divisions of the calix, and alternating with the dentures 
} . of the disk. Nut depressed globular, 1-celled, 1-seeded, 
=e inclosed in the carneous base of the calix, appearing in- 
. ferior, from its immersion in the disk, adhering calix con- 
spicuously veined; shell of the nut whitish, thin, a little 
verrucose, sharply acuminated by the persistent base of 
the style, as in the capsule of Celastrus scandens. Peris- 
perm Saree: very oily, ae¢rid to the taste (probably cathar- 
tic,) its substance somewhat lamellated; corculum minute, 
at the base. The germ has probably more than one seed. 
_The whole plant is move or less oily, in consequence of 
which the deer and domestic cattle devour it with avidity. 
i 2 Celastrus macrocarpus of Peru appears to be a second — 
; ‘species of this genus. 
233. *COMANDRA.} Tuesium. ZL, 
 Calix angular, tabular-campanulate, coales- 
cing with an internal 5-toothed, glandulous 
disk. Pelals 5, ovate, ingrafted upon the mar-— 
gin of the calix, persistent. Jnthers attached 
to the petals bya tuft of filaments! Germ S-seed- 
¢ 
ed, immersed in the glandulous disk. Capsule 
-valveless, 1-seeded, coated by the base of the 
ealix, . 
Perennial, root ligneous, stem herbaceous; leaves sim- 
ple, alternate, stipules none; radical gemmaceous scales 
numerous, persistent; flowers in a corymbulose terminal 
panicle. : ; 
Species. 1. C.umbellata,  __ : . 
Thesium umbellatum. Linn. Willd. Sp. Plant. ° 
‘Stem round and erect, sending out 2 or 3 infertile 
branches below the panicle. Leaves approximating, erect, 
* oblong-ovate, obtuse, smooth, reflected on the margin, 
and reticulately veined. Panicle short, ramuli axillary, 
corymbulose, corymbs about 5-flowered, with 4 volta 
crate bractes, uppermost peduncles fewer flowered. Calix — 
+ From “May a head of hair, and @%f, a man, by analogy, 
the masculine organs of plants, or stamina;—in allusion to the 
‘Singular structure of the ae : 5 
