396 CELASTRACE.E. Euonymus. 



6. RHACOMA. Flowers mostly perfect, 4-5-merous. Stamens oatcurving. Style slender, 

 at length somewhat unilateral ; ovary partly immersed iu the disk, 1-2-celled, witli an erect 

 ovule 111 eacli cell. Drupe obovoid; seed sometimes with aril. 



7. SCH^FFERIA. Flowers dioecious, 4-merous. Style terminal, 2-cleft; stigma with 

 4 often large and iucised or fimbriate divisions ; ovary free from the disk, 2-celled, with an 

 erect ovule iu each cell. Drupe spheroidal, somewhat flattened ; seed without aril. 



8. MORTONIA. Flowers perfect, .5-merous. Style terminal, 5-lobed ; ovary free from tiie 

 disk, 5-cclled, with 2 erect ovules in each cell. Fruit dry, oblong, fluted, 1-celled by abor- 

 tion ; seed solitary, filling the ovary, without aril. 



* * Stamens twice as many as (or at least more numerous than) tlie petals or sepals : fruit 

 coriaceous, at most tardily dehiscent : leaves alternate. 



9. GLOSSOPETALON. Flowers perfect, 4-6merous. Stigma sessile, slightly notched ; 

 ovary free from the disk, 1-celled, with 2 basal anatropous ovules. Fruit follicular, striate ; 

 seeds 1 or 2, minutely arillate or carunculate at base. 



Tribe II. HIPPOCRATE.E. Stamens mostly 3, inserted on or within the disk, 

 usually adnate to the ovary below. Seeds exalbuminous. 



10. HIPPOCRATEA. Flowers perfect, 5-merous. Style short, ternwnal, somewhat 

 3-lobed ; ovary 3-celled, with several ovul«s in each cell. Capsule 3-lobed, the segments 

 separate and wing like above, the outer half of each falling away, each cell with several flat 

 seeds winged at one end. 



1. EUONYMUS, Tourn. Spindle Tree. (Name from eu, good, and oi/o/xa, 

 name, by antithesis, because the foliage was supposed to be poisonous to cattle.) 

 — Shrubs or small trees with more or less square or 4-angled glabrous twigs, 

 opposite usually serrulate pinnately veined mostly ample and deciduous leaves 

 with minute or abortive stipules, and cymose (or by abortion solitary) axillary 

 flowers. — Inst. 617, t. 388; L. Gen. no. 79; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 257; Gray, 

 Gen. ni. ii. 187, t. 171 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 360; Baill. Hist. PI. vi. 1, 30; 

 Trelease, Trans. St. Louis Acad. v. 351, 353; Losener in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 

 PHanzenf. iii. Ab. 5, 199. — Mostly of the temperate or higher Asiatic regions, 

 the European species few, some also in the Malay Islands. 



* Fruit tuberculate, rather shallow-lobed : corolla greenish or reddish yellow, .5-merous : 

 ovules Iiorizontal, 4 to 10 in each cell: winter buds rather small (1 or 2 lines long). 



E. Americanus, L. (Strawuerry Bush.) Large shrnb: leaves ovate or broadly lan- 

 ceolate, rounded to acute at base, acuminate, crenate-serrulate, glabrous or a little pubescent 

 toward the base of the principal veins, 1| to 3 inches long, nearly sessile ; the petioles a line 

 long or less: peduncles scarcely an inch long, 1-3-flowered : sepals round, entire: petals 

 mostly clawed and not meeting : fruit very rough. — Spec. i. 197 ; Nouv. Duham. iii. 26, t. 9 ; 

 Fursh, Fl. i. 168; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1322 : Don, Syst. ii. .5; Loud. Arb. ii. 499, f. 168, 169; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 258; Torr. Fl. N. Y. i. 142, t. 19 ; Baill. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. v. 31.5, & 

 Hist. PI. vi. 2; Trelease, 1. c. 3.53; Dippel, Handb. Lanldiolzkunde, ii. 492, f. 236. E. snn- 

 pervirens. Marsh. Arb. 44. E. nltorn'ifolliis, Mnench, Meth. 71. E. mnricattis, Raf. New Fl. 

 Am. iii. 59. — New Jersey to Florida, Eastern Texas, and Kentucky. 



Var. angustifolius, Wood. Similar to the type, but the leaves lanceolate to ellip- 

 tical, less than half inch wide, somewhat falcate. — Bot. & Fl. 76 ; Trelease, 1. c. 353. E. nn- 

 (jnstifolius, Pursh, Fl. i. 168 : Don, Syst. ii. 5 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 258 ; Baill. Bnll. Soc. Bot. 

 Fr. V. 315. — Kentucky to Florida. In its extreme form appearing quite distinct, but pass- 

 ing into the type by numerous intermediate specimens, chiefly from the middle range of the 

 species, pertaining to E. Americanus, $, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 258. 



Var. sarmentosus, Nptt. Low. rooting, with erect branches: leaves variou.«ly 

 lanceolate, acute: otherwise about as in the type. — Gen. i. 154: Torr. & Grav, Fl. i. 258; 

 Trelease, 1. c. 353. E. sarmentosus, Don, Syst. ii. 5. — Southwestern range of the species. 



