148 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
these.be removed as they are produced, it will form a very handsome low tree. 
Seeds, suckers, layers, or cuttings, in any common soil, kept moist. The 
largest plants of this species, in the neighbourhood of London, are at Syon. 
% ¥ 2.8. pinna‘ta L. The pinnated-leaved Staphylea, or Bladder-nut Tree. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 386.; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 3.3 Don's Mill., 2. p.3. ‘ . 
Synonymes. Staphylodéndron pinnatum Ray; Staphilier & Feuilles ailées, Fr. ; gemeine Pimper- 
nuss, Ger. ; Lacrime di Giobbe, or Pistacchio falso, Itad.; Job’s Tears. 
Engravings. ¥ng. Bot., t. 1560.; Hayne Abbild., t. 36. ; and our jig. 199. 
Spec. Char., §c. eaves pinnate, of 5—7 oblong, perfectly glabrous, serrate 
leaflets; the flowers in racemes; the capsules membranous and bladdery. 
(Dec. Prod.) Shrub or low tree. South of Europe, and ? England in 
hedges. Height 6 ft. to 12 ft. Flowers whitish; May and June. Nuts 
globose white, in a bladdery capsule; ripe in October. Decaying leaves 
yellowish green. Naked young wood greenish, with green buds. 
A smooth branching shrub, throwing up 
many side suckers, in gardens often from 
6ft. to 12ft. high, and exhibiting a much 
more luxuriant growth than the preceding 
species. The nuts, in some parts of Europe, 
are strung for beads by the Roman Catholics. 
The kernels taste like those of the pistacia, 
and are eaten in Germany by children. The 
flowers contain a great deal of honey, and 
are very attractive to bees. In the London 
nurseries, the plant is generally cultivated by 
side suckers, by cuttings put in during the f 
month of September, or by seeds, which 
are ripened in abundance. The seeds ought 
to be sown as soon as they are ripe; be- 
cause, as they contain an oil, they very soon 
become rancid. They will come up the following June, with two large, lance- 
shaped, seminal leaves ; though sometimes they do not come up for two years. 
199. Staphyléa pinnata. 
Orpen XX. .CELASTRA'CEZ. 
OrD. CHAR. Sepals 4—6: estivation imbricate. Petals 4—6. Stamens 4—6, 
alternate with the petals, opposite the sepals, indistinctly perigynous. 
Ovary superior, free, girded with a fleshy disk, with 2—4 cells. Ovules erect 
rarely pendulous. rat capsular, baccate, drupaceous, or samarideous. 
Seeds, in most, attended with an aril. (Lind/.) 
Leaves simple, alternate or opposite, generally stipulate, deciduous, or 
evergreen. Flowers whitish or greenish, in axillary cymes.— Shrubs or 
low trees, generally deciduous ; natives of both hemispheres. 
The species are chiefly remarkable for the form and colours of their fruits: 
their flowers being neither large nor showy, nor their properties valuable in 
medicine, or general economy. All the species are readily increased by layers 
by cuttings struck in sand, or by seeds in any common soil. The genera 
containing hardy species are Zuénymus, Celdstrus, and Nemopanthes, which 
are thus contradistinguished : — : 
Evo’nymus Tourn, Sexes mostly hermaphrodite. Fruit a dehiscent capsule, 
of 3—5 cells. Seed with an aril, Leaves mostly opposite. , 
Cexa’strus L. Sexes mostly hermaphrodite. “Fruit a dehiscent capsule 
of 2—3-cells. Seed with an aril. Leaves alternate, 4 
ae Rajin. Sexes polygamous or dicecious. Fruit an indehiscent 
berry 
