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CELASTRACEJE. (SPINDLE-TREE FAMILY.) 
each cell. Style 1 : stigma 3-lobed. Disk adhering to the 
bottom of the calyx. — Leaves simple. 
2. Celastrus. Stamens on the edge of the disk. Leaves alternate. 
3. Euonymus. Stamens on the upper surface of the disk, in which 
the ovary is immersed. Leaves opposite. 
1. STAPHYLEA, L. Bladder-nut. 
Sepals 5, erect. Petals 5, with short claws. Pistil of 3 car¬ 
pels united in the axis ; their long 1 styles cohering, but separating 
as the ovary enlarges into the membranaceous inflated 3-lobed and 
# 3-celled pod. Seeds 2 or 3 in each cell, naked, bony. — Upright 
shrubs with opposite pinnate leaves of 3 or 5 serrate leaflets, and 
white flowers in drooping raceme-like clusters, terminating the 
branchlets. (Name from o-ra^uAq, a cluster .) 
1. S. trifolia., L. (American Bladder-nut.) Leaflets 3, 
ovate, pointed. —Moist thickets. May. —Shrub 10° high, with 
greenish striped branches. Flowers <p, pods 2', long. 
CELASTRUS, L. Shrubby Bitter-sweet. 
Sepals 5, united at the base. Petals 5, sessile. Stamens on 
the margin of a cup-shaped disk. Pistil on the disk. Pod glo¬ 
bose (orange-color and berry-like), 3-valved, loculicidal. Seeds 
1 - 2 in each cell, erect, inclosed by a pulpy scarlet aril. — Leaves 
alternate. Flowers small, greenish, in raceme-like clusters ter¬ 
minating the branches, polygamo-dicecious. (An ancient Greek 
name for some evergreen, which our plant is not.) 
1. C* SCandens, L. (Wax-work. Climbing Bitter-sweet.) 
Woody, climbing or twining; leaves thin, ovate-oblong, finely serrate, 
pointed. Along streams and thickets. June.— The opening orange- 
colored pods, displaying the scarlet covering of the seeds, are very 
ornamental in autumn. 
Tourn. Spindle-tree. 
Sepals 4 or 5, united at the base, forming a short and flat calyx. 
Petals 4-5, rounded, spreading. Stamens very short, inserted 
on the upper face of a broad and flat 4 - 5-angled disk, which co¬ 
heres with the calyx and is stretched over the ovary. Style short 
or none. Pod 3 — 5-lobed, 3 — 5-valved, loculicidal. Seeds 1—2 
in each cell, inclosed in a red aril. — Shrubs, with 4-sided branch- 
lets, opposite serrate leaves, and loose cymes of small green or 
