104 CELASTEACE.«. [Euonmms. 



Subclass II. Calyciflor^. 



" Corolla {and ustially the stamens) perigynmis or inserted upon 

 the calyx. Ovary either free or adnate with the tube of the calyx." 

 —Br. Fl. 



Order XXI. CELASTRACE^, J?. Brown. 



" Calyx 5 -cleft, its base covered with a large, flat, fleshy disk, 

 imbricated in estivation. Petals 4 — 5, alternate with the sepals, 

 arising from the edge of the disk. Stamens 4 — 5, alternate with 

 the petals. Ovary wholly or in part immersed in the disk, 2 — 5 

 celled. Cells with 1 or many seeds. Fruit a capsule with 3 — 5 

 cells, and 3 — 5 septiferous valves, or dry drupe with 1 or 2 cells. 

 Seeds erect, often arillate, never bony. Albumen copious, fleshy, 

 with a straight embryo, flat cotyledons, and an inferior radicle. — 

 Shrubs, with simple, mostly opposite leaves, and axillary cymes." 

 —Br. Fl. 



I. EuGNYMUS, Linn. Spindle-tree. 



Calyx flat, 4 — 5 (rarely 6) cleft, inferior. Petals 4 — 5 (rarely 

 6), alternate, with as many stamens inserted on a fleshy perigynous 

 disk. Capside 3 — 5 lobed, with as many valves and 1 — 3 seeded 

 cells, loculicidal. Seeds arilled. 



Shrubs or low trees of the northern temperate zone, natives of Europe, Asia 

 and America, mostly in mountainous dislricts, with opposite deciduous leaves, 

 greenish, whitish or purplish, usually inconspicuous flowers, on forked axillary 

 peduncles, large, smooth or warted capsules, and seeds wholly or in part enveloped 

 in a coloured (orange or crimson) fleshy aril. 



1. E. europmus, L. Common Spindle-tree. Prickivood. Vect. 

 Skewerwood, Skivenvood. Flowers mostly tetrandrous, petals 

 mostly 4 oblong pointed their edges revolute, peduncles com- 

 pressed few-flowered, branches smooth, leaves oblongo-lanceolate 

 finely serrulate glabrous, angles of the smooth capsule obtuse not 

 winged. Linn. Sp. PI. 286. Sm. E. Fl. i. 330. Br. Fl. 91. 

 Bab. Man. 69. E. B. vi. t. 362. Loud. Arh. Brit. ii. 496, fig. 

 164. Guimp. und Llaync, Deutschl. Holtzart. i. 26, t. 16. 



Very common in woods, hedges and bushy places. FL May, June. Fr. Sep- 

 tember, October. ^. 



^. atrovirens. Leaves smaller, dark green and shining. 



JE. Med. — Frequent everywhere about Eyde, as in Apley wood, Quarr, Biddles- 

 ford, Chillingwood and Firestone copses. Abundant in Eagle-head and Blood- 

 stone copses, near Ashey. Plentiful in the Undercliff, and generally dispersed. 



