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small white flowers in piiberulent axillary panicles, with 5 petals and 8 stamens, 

 the fruit a fleshy capsule 3'-4' long, bluntly 3-angled, splitting and exposing 

 the black seeds which have a white, edible aril, is occasionally planted. A 

 tree about 30° high was seen at Bellevue in 1913. Eeade erroneously classed 

 this tree in the Myrtle Family. 



Cupania paniculata Camb., Panicled Cupaxia, South American, a tomen- 

 tose shrub, with evenly pinnate leaves of 3-5 pairs of oval, dentate leaflets, 

 panicled, axillary flowers, the fruit 3-lobed capsules, was represented by a 

 single tree at Spanish Point about 1875, as recorded by Lefroy. \C. fulva 

 Mart.] 



Koelreuteria paniculata Laxm., Varnish-tree, Chinese, a tree up to 30° 

 high, with deciduous pinnate leaves of 9-15 ovate, toothed leaflets, panicled 

 yellow flowers, and large bladdery pods, is listed by Lefroy, as observed by 

 him somewhere in Bermuda, but no tree has been seen there by me. It is 

 unlikely that it would thrive, as it grows luxuriantly only in regions subject 

 to frost during the winter. Verrill states that it is not common. 



Aesculus Hippocastanum L., Horsechestnut, Asiatic, a large tree with 

 opposite digitately compound leaves, large clusters of white mottled flowers, 

 the spiny fruit enclosing one or two large shining seeds, is mentioned by 

 Reade, but does not appear to be represented now in Bermuda. It belongs to 

 the related family Aesculaceae. The record by Lefroy of a Pavia in a Hamil- 

 ton garden, has not been verified. 



Acer palmatum Thunb., Japanese Maple, Japanese, a small tree of the 

 related family Aceraceae, was represented by a plant at Bellevue in 1914, 

 which was not vigorous. The leaves of this species are very deeply, palmately 

 cleft into 5-9 lanceolate, serrate, acuminate lobes, and its fruit, like that of 

 other maples, is of 2 samaras joined at the base. 



Acer Negundo L., Ash-leaved Maple, North American, a species with 

 pinnate leaves, was observed as a young potted plant with variegated foliage, 

 at Mount Hope, in 1914. This variegated race is widely planted for orna- 

 ment in Europe. 



Family 6. MELIANTHACEAE Endl. 



Honey-flower Faisiily. 



Trees or shnibs with alternate, stipulate, unevenly pinnate leaves and 

 irregular flowers in terminal or lateral racemes. Calyx r)-parted or 5-rleft, 

 the segments imbricated. Petals 5, veiy unequal, or only 4. Disk thick- 

 ened. Stamens 4. Ovary mostly 4-eelled; style slender, curved. Fruit a 

 4-celled capsule. Two genera, ^vith about 10 species, natives of Africa. 



Melianthus major L., Honey-flower, South African, occasionally grown 

 for ornament and interest, is a glabrous shrub up to 10° in height, with 

 leaves 8'-15' long, the connate pointed clasping stipules l'-2' long, the 9 or 

 11 oblong, ^coarsely serrate, sessile leaflets 2-4' long, the reddish-brown flowers 

 about V broad in dense racemes often 1° long, the papery 4-lobed capsules 

 V-IV long, with 2 shining, black seeds in each cavity. It is sometimes called 

 Sumac, erroneously. 



Order 20. RHAMNALES. 

 Shrubs, vines, or small trees, wath nearly always alternate leaves. 

 Flowers small, regular. Sepals mostly more or less united. Petals dis- 

 tinct or wanting. Stamens as many as the sepals or calyx-lobes, and alter- 

 nate with them, opposite the petals' when these are present. Ovar\' com- 

 pound, superior; ovules erect. 



