156 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, 



Species. 1. C. buVattis. No where to be met with in 

 North America. 2. scandens. Obs. Dioicous; racemes ter- 

 minal; pedicel! s circularly articulated. Male flowers 

 in a compound racemei the pedicells mostly 3-flowered; 

 calix shortly companulate; stamina alternating with the 

 petals. (Flowers odorous.) Female raceme simple, pedi- 

 cells bracteate, bractes setaceous, minute; flowers lar- 

 ger, turbinate-campanulate, with 5 very short infertile 

 stamina seated around the glandulous disk; style about 

 the length of the calix, thick, cylindric and perforate; 

 stigmas 3, reniform; capsule roundish-obovate, slightly 

 marked with 3, 4, or 5 furrows, with tJie same variable 

 number of valves; valves semiseptiferous in the middle, 

 2-seeded, septum not continued to the centre; seeds aril- 

 late, attached to the base of the capsule; arillus pulpy, 3- 

 sided, produced at the base, open at the top, entire, con- 

 nivent over the seed, when mature scarlet, seeds often all 

 abortive but one. Leaves alternate, stipules 3 to 5-cleft, 

 minute, setaceous. This species is also indigenous to 

 Japan, according to Ihunberg. 



Of this genus there are 6 species in Chili and Peru, 17 

 in Africa, chiefly at the Cape of Good Hope, 4 in Japan, 

 2 in Arabia Felix, 1 in the < anary islands, and another in 

 the Marquis islands of the Pacific ocean. 



jffffi Flowers incomplete, 



232. HAMILTONIA. WiUd, (Oil-nut.) 



Dioicous. — Hermaph. Calix turbinate-cam- 

 panulate, 5-rleft. Corolla 0? Germ immersed in 

 the 5-toothed giandiilous disk. Style 1; stigma- 

 ta 2 or S, sublentiform. Drupe* pyriform, 1- 

 seeded, inclosed in the adhering; base of the ca- 

 lix. Male flower nearly similar to the herma- 

 phrodite. 



A shrub with the habit of Celastrns, to which it is inti- 

 mately allied. Leaves alternate entire, stipules none? ra- 

 ceme terminal, flowers apetalous? 



Species. 1. H. oleijera. Rare. On the margins of the 

 mountain rivulets; in the central and hig'hest chains of 

 mountains, from Pennsylvania to Georgia. — Root, surculose 

 penetrating very deep; leaves oblong-obovate, acummate, 

 2 to 3 inches long, 1 to 1 1-2 wide, petiolate, pubescent 

 and strongly veined on the under side. The young leaves 

 within the bud appear silky. Pedicells circularly articula- 



