CELASTRACEAE. 199 
CELASTRUS. Bittersweet. 
(Family Celastraceae). 
Woody twiners: deciduous. 
Stems terete, rather slender: pith 
relatively large, continuous and 
homogeneous, round, white. Buds 
small, solitary, sessile, subglobose, 
with half-a-dozen mucronate 
scales. Leaf-scars alternate, half- 
elliptic or broadly. crescent- 
shaped, low: bundle-trace 1, trans- 
verse: stipule-scars minute or in- 
distinguishable, or the persistent 
stipules minute and resembling 
tufted hairs. 
Winter-character references to 
Celastrus scandens:—Brendel, 30, 
ph.4;) Hiteheoek (3), 9). (ae 224, 
f. 14; Schneider, f. 116. 
In two species referred to this 
genus, Damaskinos and Bourgeois, 
in volume 5 of the Bulletin de la 
Société Botanique de _ France, 
show that two axillary buds are superposed, the lower devel- 
oping into a spine or an inflorescence. 
Stems and buds glabrous, brownish. C. scandens. 
