PENTANDRIA. MONOGTMA, 157 



ttj at the base. Calyx of the male flower shortly campa- 

 nulate; glandular disk penetrating' and filling the tubular 

 attenuated base of the calix. Hermaphrodite, calix tur- 

 binate-campanulate, 5-clett, segments ovate, reflected, 

 glandular disk more conspicuous; stamina opposite the 

 divisions of the calix, and alternating with the dentures 

 of the di^k. Nut depressed globnlar, l-celled, 1-seeded, 

 inclosed in the carneous base of the calix, appearing in- 

 ferior, from its immersion in the disk, adhering calix con- 

 spicuously veined; shell of ihe nut whitish, tliin, a little 

 verrucose, sharply acuminated by the pei'sistent base of 

 llie style, as in tlie capsule of Celustrm ficamlens. Peris- 

 perm lai-ge, very oily, aciid to the taste (probably catliar- 

 tic,) its substance somewhat lamellated; corculum minute, 

 at the base. The germ has probably moie than one seed. 

 The whole plant Is more or less oiiy, in consequence of 

 which the deer and domestic cattle devour it with avidity. 

 Celastnis 7nacrocarpus of I'era appears to be a second 

 species of this genus. 



23S. ^COMANDRA.f Thesii vi. L. 



Calix angular, tubular-campanulate, coales- 

 cing with an internal 5-toothed, glandulous 

 disk. Petals 5, ovate, ingrafted upon the mar- 

 gin of the calix, persistent. Anthers attached 

 to the petals by a tiift of filaments] Gei^in 3-seed- 

 ed^ immersed in the glandulous disk. Capsule 

 valveless, 1 seeded, coated by the base of the 

 caiix. 



Perennial, mot ligneous, stem herbaceous; leaves sim- 

 ple, alternate, stipules none; radical gemmaceous scales 

 numerous, persistent; fioweis in a corymbulose terminal 

 panicle. 



hPECiEs. 1. C.innhellala. 



Theaium iLinhellatnm. Linn. AVilld. 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 rciiculately veined. Panicle short, ramuli axillary, 

 corymbulose, corymbs about 5-flowered, with 4 involu- 

 crate bractes, uppermost peduncles fewer flowered. Calix 



t from y-of^*)i a head of hair, aiul 'O'^^, a man, by analogy, 

 the masculine organs of plants, or stamina;— in allusion to the 

 singular structure of the anthers. 



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