CELASTRACEAE. 



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der often green twigs ; round or angular continuous or spongy 

 or evanescent pale pith ; opposite somewhat raised crescent- 

 shaped leaf-scars with a crescent-shaped bundle-trace; minute 

 stipule-scars ; usually elongated solitary sessile buds with sev- 

 eral pairs of rather fleshy scales; medium-sized stalked toothed 

 or crenate leaves ; small whitish or lurid perfect polypetalous 

 flowers in stalked axillary clusters ; and usually pink leathery 

 capsules with several rather large red-arillate seeds. 



1. Creeping, trailing, or climbing. 2. 

 Bushy or tree-like. 7. 



2. Climbing by roots: leaves small (1.5-5 cm.). 3. 

 Not climbing. 5. 



3. Leaves not variegated. E. radicans. 

 Leaves white-margined. E. radicans argenteo-marginata. 

 Leaves margined with red. E. radicans roseo-marginata. 

 Leaves white-veined. 4. 



4. Leaves rather large. 



Leaves small (scarcely 1.5 cm.). 



5. Leaves linear, narrow. 

 Leaves obovate, broad. 6. 



6. Leaves not variegated. 

 Leaves variegated. 



7. Evergreen. 8. 

 Deciduous. 15. 



8. Leaves not variegated. 9. 

 Leaves variegated. 12. 



9. Round-topped. 10. 

 Conical or oblong. 



10. Leaves green. 



Leaves yellow when young, u. 



11. Young leaves light yellow. 

 Young leaves golden. 



12. Variegation marginal. 13. 



E. radicans reticulata. 



E. radicans minima. 



E. nana. 



E. obovata. 

 E. obovata variegata. 



E. japonica columnaris. 

 E. japonica. 



E. japonica pallens. 

 E. japonica aurea. 



Variegation median. 

 13. Margin white. 

 Margin yellow. 



E. japonica albo-marginata. 

 E. japonica aureo-marginata. 



