CELASTRACE^. 187 



Plate 171. 



EUONYMUS, Tourn. 



Flores hermaphroditi, 4 - 5-meri. Petala sub disco magno 

 piano ovarium cingenti inserta. Stamina disco imposita ; 

 filamentis brevissimis. Ovula in loculis 2, adscendentia vel 

 resupinata. Semina arillo colorato inclusa. — Frutices oppo- 

 sitifolii, floribus axillaribus cymosis. 



EuoNYMus, Tourn. Inst. p. 617. t. 388. Linn. Gen. 271. Lam. III. 1. 131. 

 Gsertn. Fr. t. 113. DC. Prodr. 2. p. 3. Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1. p. 

 257. Endl. Gen. 5676. Bennett, PI. Jav. Rar. p. 130. t. 28. 



Spiiidle-tree. Stra^vlberry-tree. Buruing-busli. 



Flowers perfect. Calyx flat, four - five-cleft, persistent ; 

 the lobes rounded, imbricated in aestivation. Disk large, 

 thick and fl.eshy, perigynous, flat, quadrangular or somewhat 

 five-angled, closely surrounding the ovary and more or less 

 adherent to it. Petals as many as the lobes of the calyx 

 and inserted in their sinuses under the free border of the 

 disk, much larger than the calyx, widely spreading, sessile 

 by a broad base, imbricated in aestivation, deciduous. Sta- 

 mens as many as the petals and alternate with them, inserted 

 on the upper surface of the flat disk : filaments very short, 

 subulate, erect : anthers introrse, didymous, two-celled ; the 

 cells nearly parallel, or oftener with their bases diverging 

 so as to become transverse, opening lengthwise. Ovary im- 

 mersed in the disk, three - five-celled : style very short: 

 stigma terminal, depressed, or three - five-lobed. Ovules 

 anatropous, two in the inner angle of each cell, either next 

 the base, when they are ascending, or nearer the summit, 

 when they become pendulous by resupination, and the 

 raphe therefore dorsal or external, at first collateral, and with 

 the raphes contiguous (at least in E. Americanus, &c.), but 

 at length more or less superposed. 



