STAPHYLEA. PENTANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. 325 



218. STAPHYLEA. L. 



Calyx 5-parted, coloured. Petals 5, inserted upon 

 the margin of a glandular pentangular disk. Capsules 

 2 — 3, inflated, partly united. Seeds 1 — 2 in each cap- 

 sule, subglobose, with a lateral cicatrix. GV/z. pi. 507. 

 jYutt. Gen. I. p. 204. Jiiss. p. 377. Lam. III. 

 t. CCX. Roem. ^ Schulf. Gen. 1235. Nat. 

 Ord. Rhamni /z/5J. Celastrin^ R. Broivn? 



Bladder-nut. 



S. trifolia L. : leaves ternate. Willd. Spec. I. p. 1 498. 

 M i c h. Ft. I. p. 184. Purs h Fl. I. p. 206. Elliott 

 6"/:. I. p. 369. Roem. ^ Schult. \\.^.e,£^&. Cold, 

 Moveh. 62. Staphylodendron G ro n. Virg. 34. 



A shrub 6 — 10 feet high, erect, with smooth slender branches. 

 Leaves on long pubescent peduncles; leaflets ovate, acu- 

 minate, 2 — 3 inches long, acutely serrulate, pubescent ; the la- 

 teral ones subsessile ; terminal one petiolate. Flowers in loose 

 axillary and terminal pendulous racemes ; fiedicels nearly half 

 an inch long. Calyj: greenish-white, deeply 5-parted ; seg- 

 ments connivent, oblong, obtuse. Petals white, obovate, longer 

 than the calyx, ciliate at the base. Stamens alternating with 

 the petals, exstrted ; Jilaments capillary, slightly hairy ; an- 

 thers roundish, yellow, 2-celled. Germen 3-celled ; cells 

 2— -3 seeded. 5;;/ /e deeply 3 -parted ; sf/j-mas capitate. Cafi- 

 sules generally 3, large, membranaceous, cohering on the inner 

 side, seldom with more than one of themf perfecting a single 

 seed. Seed hard, subglobose, a little compressed, smooth and 

 polished, with a small margined cicatrix on one side, above 

 which is a minute oblique process. 



Hab. On rocky hills. May. 



ORDER IV. 



T E T R A G Y N I A. 



219. PARNASSIA. L. 



Calyx 5-parted, persistent. Petals 5, inferior. Nec- 

 taries of 5 scales, inserted into the claws of the petals, 

 fringed with capitate cilise. Stigmas 4, sessile. Cap- 



•{■ In the vicinity of New-York, where only I have examined it. 



