STAPHYLEACEAE. 201 
STAPHYLEA. Bladdernut. 
(Family Staphyleaceae). 
Shrubs or small trees: decidu- 
ous. Twigs moderate, rounded, 
glabrous: pith rather large, 
rounded, continuous, white. Buds 
solitary, sessile, ovoid, glabrous, 
with a single sac or 2 or 4 ex- 
posed scales, the end-bud com- 
monly lacking. lLeaf-scars' op- 
posite, broadly crescent-shaped or 
half-round, slightly raised: 
bundie-traces 3, compound, or 
often 5 or 7 or broken into an 
elliptical series: stipule-scars half- 
round or elongated. 
Winter-character references: — 
Staphylea Bumalda. Shirasawa, 
271, pl. 10. S. pinnata. Schneider, 
f. 193; Willkomm, 51, f. 94; Zuc- 
eariniy’ 29, pl 36. \.S>" friend, 
Brendel, 26,29," 30 pl i> rivet 
cock 43), 11,” (4), 135," Baas 
Schneider, f. 193. 
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2. 
3. 
Buds with 4 blunt exposed scales. (1). S. trifolia. 
Buds 2-edged, with 2 sometimes connate exposed scales. 2. 
Buds acute: bundle-traces 5 or 7. S. pinnata. 
Buds acuminate: bundle-traces three or five. 3. 
Twigs brown: buds long-pointed. (2). S. Bumalda. 
Twigs green: buds short-pointed. (3). S. coichica. 
Winter-characters of Huscaphis japonica, another mem- 
ber of the Staphyleaceae, are given by Schneider, f. 193; and 
Shirasawa, 275, pl. 11. 
