182 RHAMNT. [CI. 14. 



Ord. 95. Rhamni. "Calyx inferior, of 1 leaf, 

 definitely divided at the border. Petals 5, rarely 4 

 or 6, very rarely wanting, inserted either into the up- 

 per part of the Calyx, or into it's disk, alternate with 

 the segments and equal to them in number, some- 

 times resembling scales, and furnished with claws, 

 sometimes dilated and joined at the base. Stamens 

 as many, inserted into the same part, either alternate 

 with, or opposite to, the Petals. Germen superior, 

 encompassed with the glandular disk of the Calyx. 

 Style 1, or several. Stigma 1, or more. Fruit either 

 pulpy, of many cells, or with many Nuts, each cell or 

 Nut containing 1 Seed ; or capsular, of many cells 

 and many valves, with central partitions, each cell 

 having 1 or 2 Seeds. Embryo flat and straight, lodg- 

 ed in a fleshy Albumen. Stem . rboreous or shrubby. 

 Leaves alternate or opposite, with, often very minute, 

 Stipulas." 



Sect. 1. Stamens alternate with the Petals. Fruit 

 capsular. Staphylea, Euonymus, fig. 265, Polycardia 

 Juss. Lam. Ulustr. t. 132, and Celastrus. 



Sect. 2. Stam. as above. Fruit pulpy. Myginda, 

 Glossopetalum Schr. 205 (Goupia Aubl.), Rabentia 

 Commers., Cassinc, Ilex and Prinos. {Schrebera of 

 Linnseus, placed here, is an error, the plant described 

 being a Cuscuta on a A lyrical) 



The greater part of these 2 Sections composes Mr. 

 Brown's new Order of Cclaslrincr, Bot. of Terra 



