TROCHODENDRACEAE. 47 
EUPTELEA. 
(Family Trochodendraceae). 
Shrubs or small trees: decidu- 
ous. Twigs moderate or rather 
slender, terete, somewhat zig-zag: 
pith rather small, firm, continu- 
ous, greenish. Buds solitary, ses- 
sile, ovoid, moderate, with half- 
a-dozen blunt glossy scales, spar- 
ingly hairy at base: end-bud lack- 
ing. Leaf-scars alternate, 2- 
ranked, moderate, broadly cres- 
cent-shaped, little raised: bundle- 
traces 7, relatively small: stipule- 
sears lacking. 
Euptelea, like Cercidiphyllum, 
and Hucommia is an anomalous 
genus, evidently related to the 
Magnoliaceae but not fitting into 
that family without doing vio- 
lence to its usual association of 
characters. Unlike the genera 
usually taken to represent the 
Magnoliaceae, this does not produce stipules, so that its twigs 
lack the narrow scars that characterize the nodes of Magnolia, 
Michelia and Liriodendron, and the horizontal series of bun- 
dle-traces in its leaf-scar suggests rather a broken composite 
group than either of the usual magnoliaceous types. The win- 
ter-characters of E. polyandra are described and figured by 
Shirasawa, p. 257, pl. 7. 
Though of rather recent introduction and rarely seen, 
Euptelea is proving fairly hardy and is likely to find ex- 
tended use where open round-topped trees are desired. 
Glabrate: buds glossy chestnut. E. polyandra. 
