Celastraoeae. 



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Glossopetalon. 

 (Family Celastraceae). 



Shrubs: deciduous. Twigs, 

 sometimes forming blunt spines, 

 slender, flat-ridged below the leaf- 

 scars: pith small, roundish, white, 

 continuous. Buds solitary, sessile, 

 minute, round-ovoid, appressed, 

 with 2 or 3 exposed scales, the 

 end-bud lacking. Leaf-scars al- 

 ternate, very narrowly triangular- 

 crescent-shaped or almost linear, 

 slightly elevated, minute, the 

 petioles at first persisting and 

 covering the buds: bundle-trace 

 1: stipule-scars lacking. (For- 

 sellcsia). 



When Dr. Gray first published 

 this genus he called it Glossojx ta- 

 lon, with the characteristic Greek 

 ending, and this form is used 

 here. In an effort to Latinize all 

 generic* names, some botanists 

 write it in the form Glossopetaluvi. The plant is a close 

 counterpart, vegetatively, of the rhamnaceous Adolphiti. 

 Twigs gray-green, transversely rugulose. G. spinescens. 



