72 DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



alternating with the petals. Style 1. Capsule 3 5-celled, 

 3 5-angled ; cells 1 4-seeded. Pentandria. Monogynia. 



1. E. americanus Linn. : branches opposite, smooth, square ; leaves 

 opposite, subsessile, elliptic-lanceolate, smooth, acute, serrate ; pe- 

 duncles mostly 3-flowered, terete; calyx small, with acute segments; 

 corol 5-petalled ; fruit roughened, warty. 



HAB. Shady woods. N. Y. to Car. June. >>. Shrub 4 6 feet 

 high, with opposite branches. Flowers reddish-yellow. Fruit 

 scarlet. Burning Bush. Spindle Tree. 



2. E. atropurpureus Jacq. : stem with smooth, opposite, square 

 branches ; leaves petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, pu- 

 bescent beneath ; peduncles divaricate, many-flowered; flowers 4-clefl; 

 fruit smooth. 



HAB. Shady woods. N. Y. to Car. W. to Miss. June. >>. 

 Shrub 4 8 feet high. Flowers dark-purple. Fruit bright red. 



3. E. obovatus Nutt. : stem prostrate, rooting, nearly simple ; sur- 

 culi erect, obtusely quadrangular, with 4 elevated line's ; leaves broad- 

 ovate, obtuse, acute at base, subsessile, acutely serrulate ; peduncles 

 3-flowered ; petals 4 and 5, roundish. 



HAB. Fir swamps. Penn. June. *>. Shrub a foot high. Floic- 

 crs green, with a purple tinge. 



2. CELASTRUS. Linn. 



Calyx minute, 5-lobed. Petals 5, unguiculate. Stamens 

 5. Ovary small, with 10 striae, immersed in the disk. Style 

 1. Stigmas 2 3. Capsule 2 3-valved ; valves septiferous 

 in the centre. Seed 1, covered with a large fleshy aril. 



Pentandria. Monogynia. 



C. gcandens Linn. : stem climbing, unarmed ; leaves petioled, oval, 

 acuminate, serrate ; stipules minute ; racemes terminal. 



HAB. Rocky woods. Can. to Virg. May, June. f?. A woody 

 vine or low shrub. Leaves alternate. Flowers greenish-yellow, 

 in small terminal racemes. Fruit scarlet. Climbing Staff Tree. 



ORDER XXXII. STAPHYLEACE^. Lind. 



Sepals 5, connected at base, coloured, with an imbricated 

 aestivation. Petals 5, alternate, with an imbricated aestiva- 

 tion. Stamens 5, alternate with the petals, perigynous. Disk 

 large, urceolate. Ovary 2 3-celled, superior ; ovules erect ; 

 styles 23, cohering at the base. Fruit membranous or 

 fleshy, indehiscent or opening internally, partly abortive. 

 Seeds ascending, roundish, with a long testa ; hilurn large 

 truncate ; albumen none ; cotyledons thick. 



