CELASTRINE^E 



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Seedlings. The seedlings observed were all similar inhabit 

 and agree in all main particulars, having aerial, foliaceous, 

 rather persistent cotyledons alternately penninerved and reti- 

 culate with incurved veins. In Euonymus europseus (fig. 243) 

 they are entire ; in Maytenus boaria (fig. 244) broadly ob- 

 long, blunt, shortly petiolate, and emarginate. They are 

 also emarginate in Celastrus paniculatus, in which they 



-Ra, 



Jf 



FIG. 242. Euonymus europaus. 



A, vertical section of seed, x 8. B, transverse section of seed, x 8 (from below 

 middle). C, ventral aspect of seed, x 8 : H, hilum ; Ha, raphe. 



do not otherwise materially differ from those of Euonymus 

 europseus. The leaves of the seedlings in all the three cases 

 are very similar to those of the adult plant. The stipules of 

 the primary leaves are more evident in Celastrus paniculatus 

 than in the other cases where they seem to be absent. 



Euonymus europseus, L. (fig. 242). 



Pistil syncarpous, superior ; ovary of four to five carpels, four- to 

 five-, usually four-celled, with two collateral ovules in each cell ; 



