NATUEAL HISTOEY OF PLANTS. 



XLVL CELASTRACE^. 



I. EU0NYMU8 SERIES. 



Euonymus^ (fig.1-7) has regular, hermaphrodite flowers in four or 

 five parts. In many species the receptacle is somewhat convex or 

 depressed, surmounted by a large and flattened glandular disk. The 



Euonymus verrucosus. 



A 



Fig. 2. Bud (^). 



Fig. 1. Floriferous branch. Fig. 3. Mower. 



calyx is short, in four or five imbricated divisions. The petals, alter- 

 nate and longer, are imbricated in the bud. Alternately are inserted, 

 near the corners of the disk, an equal number of stamens. The fila- 

 ments are free, generally short, subulate, at first incurved; the anthers 

 are bilocular, and the cells, often didymous, open longitudinally, 



1 Muomjmus T. Inst. 617, t. 388. — Adans. 

 Fam. des. PI. ii. 304. — L. Gen. n. 271. — Gen. 

 377.— Gjertn. Pruct. ii. 149, t. 113.— Lamk. 

 IHct.\\. 571 ; Suppl. ii. 685; III. t. 131.— DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 3.— Turp. in Did. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 272. 

 — Spach, Suit, d Buffon, ii. 404. — Endl. Gen. 



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n. 5676.— A. Gray. Gen. III. t. 171.— B. H. Gen 

 360, 997, n. 1.— H. Bn. in Payer Fam. Nat. 

 323.— Hook. Fl. Ind. i. mi .— Vyenonuis Presl, 

 Bot. Bern. 32 (incl. Gh/ptopetalum Thw. Lopho- 

 petalum Wight, Melanccarya Tuacz. 



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