CELASTRACEAE. 197 
GLOSSOPETALON. 
(Family Celastraceae). 
Shrubs: deciduous. Twigs, 
sometimes forming blunt spines, 
slender, flat-ridged below the leaf- 
sears: pith small, roundish, white, 
continuous. Buds solitary, sessile, 
minute, round-ovoid, appressed, 
with 2 or 3 exposed scales, the 
end-bud lacking. Leaf-scars al- 
ternate, very narrowly triangular- 
crescent-shaped or almost linear, 
slightly elevated, minute, the 
petioles at first persisting and 
covering the buds: bundle-trace 
1: stipule-scars lacking. (For- 
sellesia). 
When Dr. Gray first published 
this genus he called it Glossopeta- 
lon, with the characteristic Greek 
ending, and this form is used 
here. In an effort to Latinize all 
generic names, some _. botanists 
write it in the form Glossopetalum. The plant is a close 
counterpart, vegetatively, of the rhamnaceous Adolphia. 
Twigs gray-green, transversely rugulose. G. spinescens. 
