NATUKAL HISTOEY OF PLANTS. 



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XLVI. CELASTRACEiE. 





I. EUONYMUS SERIES. 



Euonymus 1 (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. 



Fig. 2. Bud («). 



Fier. 1. Floriferous branch. 



Flower. 



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, 



i Euonymus T. Inst. 617, t. 3S8.— Adans. 

 Tarn. des. PI. ii. 304. — L. &en. n. 271. — Gen. 

 377.— G.rrtn. Fntct. ii. 149, t. 113.— Lamk. 

 Diet. ii. 571 ; Suppl. ii. 685 ; III. t. 131.— DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 3.— Turf, in Diet. Se. Nat. Atl. t. 272. 

 — Spach, Suit, à Iiujfon, ii. 404. — Endl. Gen, 

 VOL. VI. 



n. 567G.— A. Gray. Gen. III. t. 171.— B. H. Gen 

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

 323. — Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 607. — Vyenomm Presl, 

 Bot. Bern. 32 (inel. Glyptop, talitm Tnw. Lopho- 

 petalum Wight, Melanoenrya Turcz. 



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