LXIV. STAPHYLEACE.E. 



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Staphylea. 

 Seed (mag.)- 



Staphylea. 



Seed cut parallel to 



the cotyledons. 



Staphylea. 

 Seed cut 



perpendicularly to 

 the coti'ledons. 



Staphylea. 

 Pistil (m.og.). 



Staphylea. 

 Seed cut transversely. 



Mitphylea piniiata. 



Staphylea. . , ,, , -, 



vertical section of flower in each ceil, globose, truncate at 

 the base; testa bony, shining. 

 EMBRYO stiaight, in a fleshy 

 scanty albumen, reduced to a 

 thin layer when ripe ; coty- 

 ledons thick, fleshy, plano- 

 convex; radicle short, inferior 



Staphylea. Diagram. Or Centrifugal. 





PEINCIPAL GENERA. 

 Euscaphis. Staphylea. Turpinia. 



Stapliykacea, joined by De Candolle to Celastrinece, nve connected with them by the polypetalous 

 isostemonous corolla, imbricate aestivation, fleshy disk on which the petals and stamens are inserted, as- 

 cending and anatropous ovules, woody stem and stipulate leaves ; but Celastrinea have simple and alternate 

 leaves, usually arillate seeds, and a copious albumen. A still more legitimate affinity links Staphyleacea 

 with Sapindacea and Acerinece ; for in the latter the petals are imbricate, and inserted, like the stamens, 

 on a flashy hypogynous disk, the ovary is two-lobed and of two carpels, the fruit is a capsule, the seeds are 

 ascending, and scarcely or not albuminous, the stem is woody, and leaves opposite. There is the same 

 relationship with SapindacceB, in many genera of which the leaves are stipulate, though not opposite. 



