NATUEAL HISTOEY OF PLANTS. 



XLVI. CELASTRACE.E. 



I. EUONYMUS BERIES. 



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 



Emnymus verrucosus. 



Fig. 2. Bud (5). 



Fig. 1. Floriferous branch. Fig. 3. Flower. 



calyx is short, ia 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 Huonymm T. Iinat. 617, t. 388. — Adans. 

 Fam. des. PI. ii. 304. — L. Oen. n. 271. — Qen. 

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

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

 Prodr. ii. 3.— Turb. in Viet. So. Nat. Atl. t. 272. 

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



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

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

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

 Pot. Bern. 32 (inol. Gltjptopetalum Thw. Zopho- 

 petalum Wight, Melanooarya Turcz. 



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