156 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 



Species. 1. C. bullatus. No where to be met with in 

 North America. 2. scandem. Obs. Dioicous; racemes ter- 

 minal; pedicells circularly articulated. Male flowers 

 in a compound raceme, the pedicells mostly 3-flowered; 

 calix shortly companulate; stamina alternating- with the 

 petals. (Flowers odorous.) Female raceme simple, pedi- 

 cells bracteate, bractes setaceous, minute; flowers lar- 

 gei", turbinate-campanulate, with 5 very short infertile 

 stamina seated around the g'landulous disk; style about 

 the length of the calix, thick, cylindric and perforate; 

 stigmas 3, reniform; capsule roundish-obovate, slightly 

 marked with S, 4, or 5 furrows, with the same variable 

 number of valves; valves semiseptiferous in the middle, 

 S-seeded, septum not continued to the centre; seeds aril- 

 late, attached to the base of the capsule; ariilus pulpy, 3- 

 sided, produced at the base, open at the top, entire, con- 

 nivent over the seed, when mature scarlet, seeds often all 

 abortive but one. Leaves alternate, stipules 3 to 5-cleft, 

 minute, setaceous. This species is also indigenous to 

 Japan, according to Thunberg. 

 ^ Of this genus there are 6 species in Chili and Peru, 17 

 in Africa, chiefly at the Cape of Good Hop?, 4 in Japan, 

 2 in Arabia Felix, 1 in the • anary islands, and another in 

 tlie Marquis islands of the Pacific ocean. 



tttttt Flowers incom2Me, 



232. HAMILTONIA. mild. (Oil-nut.) 



Dioicou.s. — Hekmaph. Calix turbinate-cam- 

 pamilate, 5-cIrft. Corolla 0? Germ immersed in 

 the 5-toothed glandulous disk. Style 1; stigma- 

 ta 2 or 3, sublentiform. Brupc, pyriform, 1- 

 seedod, inclosed in the adhering base of tlse ca- 

 lix. Male flower nearly similar to the hcrma- 

 pljrodite. 



A shrub with the habit of Celastynis, to which it is inti- 

 mately allied. leaves alternate entire, stipules none? ra- 

 cem.e terminal, flowers apetalous? 



Species. 1. //. oleijera. Rare. On the margins of the 

 mountain rivulets; in the central and highest chains of 

 mountains, from Pennsylvania to Georgia. — Roo' :, surculose 

 penetrating very deep; leaves oblong-obovate, acuminate, 

 2 to 3 inches long, 1 to 1 1-3 wide, petiolate, pubescent 

 and strongly veined on the under side. The young leaves 

 within the bud appear silky. Pedicells circularly articula- 



