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Ounce CXXXV. BTAPHYLEACEiB. B i 



b. j Btaphylaac— ( DC. Pr to.l 'J. I8S 



Endl. '.'• n. eezxxT, 



hi n,si'~i>. SapindalE Uhpartia 



cu/i/. . ling ovules, timplt stigm 



1. svee opposite (rarely alternate), pinnate, with Doth common and | 



ciduous stipules. 

 v , ( _ miiKil, stalki 



p- ' . & pals 5, connected :it the i 

 coloured, with an imbrii 

 tiiTi. Petals ">, alternate, with an 

 imbricated aestivation, inserted u 

 around a free crenated aauci i 

 disk. Man. dternate with the 



I ■• tals, perigynous. < (vary 

 celled, Dree, »itli the carpi Is mon 

 ]• as distinct; ovules Beveral, horizontal 

 <>r ascending, anatropal ; styl 

 cohering at the bast . Fruit membran- 

 ous or tii >hy, indehiscenl or "j- i 

 internally, often deformed bytheal 

 tinn of some of the (arts. 

 ascendin.', roundish, with a bonj i 

 liiluni large, truncate ; albumen littl<- 

 or none ; cotyledons thick ; radicle 

 short, next the hilum, 



Combined with Spindl -1 ' 



( andolli . but distinguish 1 by 

 Brongniart {Mi <«■ nw '<■ ■ ■■ 

 \>. lui. tlii> Ordi r a] , 

 dally characti ria 1 bj 

 oated stipulate leav« -. and I 

 more closely allied to Soapworta, 



which it is distinguished bj the numb r ol its a pals, petals, and stam< i - 

 The \i ry !<■« -i" ci< ■ which belong here are irregularly Bcatta red ovi r I 



globe. < »t the genus Staphylea, 1 is found in Europe, 1 in North Ameri 



2 in Jamaica, I in Peru ; and of Turpinia, 1 is Mexican, and 1 East Indian. 

 Very little is known oi their uses, '1 In- Bladder-nuts are handsome b 

 their Bet da are oily, rather austere, and slightly purgative. The ini 



root of Euscaphis Btaphyleoides, a Japan plant, i- bitter and aati 



dysenti ry and chronic diarrhoea, according to Siebold 



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Turpinia, Vent 



Pair Ro*b. 



Eoacapn - ' Zuec. 



Staphylea, Linm. 



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Nuhbbbs. «'. I N 3. Sp. 14. 



Position. 



Staph vli i 



I rCLXVl Staphylea numalda.-DefafMrt. 1 



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