STAPllYLEACE/E. 191 



Plate 172. 



STAPHYLEA, L, 



Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx coloratus, 5-partitns. Peta- 

 la et stamina 5, erecta, margini disci perigyni 5-lobi inserta. 

 Capsula 3-loba, membranacea, inflata, oligosperma. Semina 

 ossea, exarillata. — Frutices ; foliis trifoliolatis v. impari- 

 pinnatis, stipulatis et stipellatis ; floribiis cymuloso-racemosis. 



Staphvlea, Linn. Gen. 374. Lam. 111. t. 210. Sclikulir, Handb. t. 84. 



Gsertn. Fr. t. 69. DC. Prodr. 2. p. 2. Torr, & Gray, Fl. 1. p. 



256. Deless. Ic. 3. t. 51. Sitb. & Zucc. Fl. Jap. p. 180. t. 95. 



Endl. Gen. 5673. 

 Staphylodendron, Tourn. Inst. p. 616. t. 386. 

 BuMALDA, Tliunb. Fl. Jap. p. 8. 



Bladder-nut. 



Calyx five-parted, colored ; the segments flat, quinciin- 

 cially imbricated in aestivation, erect, marcescent or persistent. 

 Disk perigynoiis, fleshy, filling the short tube of the calyx, 

 urceolate or depressed, five-lobed ; the lobes before the petals. 

 Petals 5, spatulate or obovate, inserted on the margin of the 

 disk alternate with the sepals, unguiculate, quincuncially 

 imbricated in aestivation, erect, deciduous. Stamens 5, in- 

 serted on the edge of the disk alternate with the petals : 

 FILAMENTS filiform-subulatc, pubescent towards the base : 

 ANTHERS introrse, fixed near the middle, two-celled, the ob- 

 long cells parallel, opening longitudinally. Pistils 3, or 

 rarely 2, united by their inner angles at the base only, or for 

 nearly their whole length : styles filiform, distinct and con- 

 nivent, or more or less coherent : stigmas somewhat capitate 

 or clavate. Ovules 6 or 8 in each ovary or cell, borne on 

 its inner angle in two series, horizontal, collateral, anatro- 

 pous; the raphes contiguous. 



Fruit a membranaceous and usually vesicular-inflated 

 CAPSULE, three- (or two-) celled, three-lobed, or sometimes two- 



