396 CELASTRACE^. Euonymus. 



6. RHACOMA. i'lowers mostly perfect, 4-5-merous. Staineus outcurving. Style sleuiier, 

 at length somewhat unilateral ; ovary partly immersed iu the disk, 1-2-celled, with au erect 

 ovule iu each cell. Drupe obovoid ; seed sometimes with aril. 



7. SCH-^FFERIA. Flowers dicecious, 4-merous. Style terminal, 2-cleft ; stigma with 

 4 often large and incised or fimbriate divisions ; ovary free from the disk, 2-celled, with an 

 erect ovule iu each cell. Drupe spheroidal, somewhat flattened ; seed without aril. 



8. MORTONIA. Flowers perfect, 5-merous. Style terminal, 5-lobed ; ovary free from the 

 disk, 5-celled, with 2 erect ovules in each cell. Fruit dry, oblong, fluted, 1-celled by abor- 

 tion ; seed solitary, filling the ovary, without aril. 



* * Stamens twice as many as (or at least more numerous than) the petals or sepals : fruit 

 coriaceous, at most tardily dehiscent : leaves alternate. 



9. GLOSSOPETALON. Flowers perfect, 4-6-merous. Stigma sessile, slightly notched ; 

 ovary free from the disk, 1-celled, with 2 basal anatropous ovules. Fruit follicular, striate; 

 seeds 1 or 2, minutely arillate or carunculate at base. 



Tribe II. HIPPOCRATES. Stamens mostly 3, inserted on or within the disk, 

 usually adnate to the ovary below. Seeds exalbuniinous. 



10. HIPPOGRATEA. Flowers perfect, 5-merous. Style short, terminal, somewhat 

 3-lobed ; ovary 3-celled, with several ovules in each cell. Capsule 3-lobed, the segments 

 separate and wing like above, the outer half of each falling away, each cell with several flat 

 seeds winged at oue end. 



1 . EUON YMUS, Tourn. Spindle Tree. (Name from ev, good, and wo/^a, 

 name, by antithesis, because the foliage was supposed to be poisonous to cattle.) 

 — Shrubs or small trees with more or Jess square or 4-angled glabrous twigs, 

 opposite usually serrulate pinnately veined mostly ample and deciduous leaves 

 with minute or abortive stipules, and cymose (or by abortion solitary) axillary 

 flowers. — Inst. 617, t. 388; L. Gen. no. 79; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 257; Gray, 

 Gen. 111. ii. 187, t. 171 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 360; Baill. Hist. PI. vi. 1, 30; 

 Trelease, Trans. St. Louis Acad. v. 351, 353; Losener in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 

 Prianzenf. iii. Ab. 5, 199. — Mostly of the temperate or higher Asiatic regions, 

 the European species few, some also in the Malay Islands. 



* Fruit tuberculate, rather shallow-lobed : corolla greenish or reddish yellow, 5-merous: 

 ovules horizontal, 4 to 10 in each cell : winter buds rather small (1 or 2 lines long). 



E. Americanus, L. (Strawberry Bush.) Large shrub: leaves ovate or broadly lan- 

 ceolate, rounded to acute at base, acuminate, crenate-serrulate, glabrous or a little pubescent 

 toward the base of the principal veins, U to 3 inches long, nearly sessile ; the petioles a line 

 long or less: peduncles scarcely an inch long, 1-3-flowered : sepals round, entire: petals 

 mostly clawed and not meeting : fruit very rough. — Spec. i. 197 ; Nouv. Dnham. iii. 26, t. 9 ; 

 Pursh, FI. i. 168; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1322 ; Don, Syst. ii. 5; Loud. Arb. ii. 499, f. 168, 169; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 258; Torr. Fl. N. Y. i. 142, t. 19 ; Baill. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. v. 315, & 

 Hist. PI. vi. 2 ; Trelease, 1. c. 353 ; Dippel, Handb. Laubholzkunde, ii. 492, f. 236. E. sem- 

 pervirens. Marsh. Arb. 44. E. altPrnifoUus, Mcench, Meth. 71. E. mitricatus, Raf. New Fl. 

 Am. iii. 59. — New Jersey to Florida, Eastern Texas, and Kentucky. 



_ Var. angustifolius, Wood. Similar to the type, but the leaves lanceolate to ellip- 

 tical, less tlian half inch wide, somewhat falcate. — Bot. & Fl. 76 ; Trelease, 1. c. 353. E. nn- 

 gustifoUus, Pursh, Fl. i. 168 ; Don, Syst. ii. 5 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 258 ; Baill. Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 Fr. V. 315. — Kentucky to Florida. Li its extreme form appearing quite distinct, but pass- 

 ing into the type by numerous intermediate specimens, chiefly from the middle range of the 

 species, pertaining to E. Americanus, $, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 258. 



Var. sarmentosus, Nutt. Low, rooting, with erect branches : leaves variously 

 lanceolate, acute: otherwise about as in the type. — Gen. i. 154; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 258; 

 Trelease, 1. c. 353. E. sarmentosus, Don, Syst. ii. 5. — Southwestern range of the species. 



