344 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



perate and tropical Asia, the Indian Arcliipelago, and South 

 America. The leaves are opposite, glabrous stipulate or exstipulate 

 simple or more usually imparipinnate, with coriaceous, serrulate 

 folioles. The flowers are collected in biparous compound cymes, 

 axillary or terminal. 



In Staphijlea^ (fig. 335, 339-341), the perianth and andrœceum 

 are the same as iu the preceding genus, but inserted on a recepta- 

 cular cup of less depth, lined by a more or less distinct disk interior 



Slaphylen piimata. 



Fig. 340. Fruit (-i). Fig. 339. Longitudinal section of flower (;). Fig. 341, Seed. 



to the stamens. The ovary has two or three cells, sometimes united, 

 sometimes independent for a variable extent in the upper part, and 

 their ascendent biseriate ovules are variable in number, often inde- 

 finite, in the interior angle of each of them. The fruit is capsular, 

 membranous and vesiculate, dehiscing by the superior and interior 

 part of the cells. The seeds contain imder theii- very thick coats an 

 albuminous embryo. Three or four ~ species of Staphijim are known, 

 shrubs of the temperate regions of Europe, Asia, and North America, 

 with opposite stipulate leaves, compound 3-5-foliolate or impari- 



S93.— Walp. Ecp. i. 528 {Tm-pinia); ii. 826 Fl.Jap.S. 



{MuscapMs) ; v. 401 ; Aim. i. 188. 



1 L. Gen. n. 374.— J. Oeii. 377.— Lamk. III. t. 

 210.— PoiR. Diet. vii. 390.— GiERTN. Fntct. i. 

 334, t. 69.— DC. Irodr. ii. 2.— SrACH. Suit, à 

 Buffon, ii. 394.— Endl. Gen. n. 6673.— Payer, 

 Orsamg. 171, t. 36.— B. H. Gen. 412, n. 71.— 

 H. Bn. in layer Fam. Nat. 319. — Staphylodeii- 

 dron T. Inst. 616, t. 3S6.—Bumalda Thunu. 



- DuHAM, Arbr. ii. 77. — Deless, Ic. Sel. iii. 

 t. 51. — Eeichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. v. t. 161. — Gren. 

 et GoDR. Fl. de Fi: i. 332.— Tork. Fl. N.-York, 

 t. 19.— A. Gray, Gen. III. t. 172.— Tul. ^««. 

 Sc. Xat. sér. 3, vi. 362.— Benth. Fl. Hongk. 45. 

 MiQ. Ann. Mas. Lugd.-Bat. iii. 93. — Walp. 

 Itep. i. 529 ; Ann. ii. 262 ; vii. 638. 



