CELASTRACEAE. 



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CELASTRUS. Bittersweet. 

 (Family Celastraceae). 



Woo.dy twiners: deciduous. 

 Stems terete, rather slender: pith 

 relatively large, continuous and 

 homogeneous, round, white. Buds 

 small, solitary, sessile, sufaglobose, 

 with half-a-dozen mucronate 

 scales. Leaf-scars alternate, half- 

 elliptic or br o a d 1 y 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, 

 pi. 4; Hitchcock (3), 9, (4), 134, 

 f. 14; Schneider, f. 116. 



In two species referred to this 

 genus, Damaskinos and Bourgeois, 

 in volume 5 of the Bulletin de la 

 Societe 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. 



