CELASTRACEAE, I2I 
der often green twigs; round or angular continuous or spongy 
or evanescent pale pith; opposite somewhat raised crescent- 
shaped leaf-scars with a crescent-shaped bundle-trace; minute 
stipule-scars; usually elongated solitary sessile buds with sev- 
eral pairs of rather fleshy scales; medium-sized stalked toothed 
or crenate leaves; small whitish or lurid perfect polypetalous 
flowers in stalked axillary clusters; and usually pink leathery 
capsules with several rather large red-arillate seeds, 
1. Creeping, trailing, or climbing. 2. 
Bushy or tree-like. 7. 
2. Climbing by roots: leaves small (1.5-5 cm.). 3. 
Not climbing. 5. 
3. Leaves not variegated. E. radicans. 
Leaves white-margined. E. radicans argenteo-marginata. 
Leaves margined with red. E. radicans roseo-marginata. 
Leaves white-veined. 4. 
4. Leaves rather large. E. radicans reticulata. 
Leaves small (scarcely 1.5 cm.). E. radicans minima. 
5. Leaves linear, narrow. Ey, ‘nana: 
Leaves obovate, broad. 6. 
6. Leaves not variegated. E. obovata. 
Leaves variegated. E. obovata variegata. 
7. Evergreen. 8, 
Deciduous. I5. - 
8. Leaves not variegated. 9. 
Leaves variegated. 12. 
9g. Round-topped. Io. 
Conical or oblong. E. japonica columnaris. 
10. Leaves green. E. japonica. 
Leaves yellow when young. 11. 
11. Young leaves light yellow. E. japonica pallens. 
Young leaves golden. E. japonica aurea. 
12. Variegation marginal. 13. 
Variegation median. 14. 
13. Margin white. E, japonica albo-marginata. 
Margin yellow. E, japonica aureo-marginata. 
