72 CELASTRACE.E. 



by a broad base under the margin of a flat expanded disk which surrounds the 

 ovary. Stamens 4 to 5, alternate with the petals, inserted en tlie margin of the 

 disk. Ovary superior, immersed in, and adhering to the disk. Fruit a capsule of 

 berry. Sleds solitary or few. 



Tribe 1. STAPIIYLE^E. 



Leaves pinnate, opposite. Seeds long, not arilcd. Cvary many-ovulcd, free from 

 the cup-shaped dis':. 



!. STAPIIYLEA. Linn. Bladder-nut. 



Gr. stjphule, a clutter; in allusion to its mode cf Cowering. 



Sepals 5, oblong, erect, colored, persistent. Petals 5, 

 "vvith short claws. Stamens 5. Pistils 8, united in the 

 axis, their long styles cohering, but separating as the ovary 

 enlarges into the membranaceous inflated o-lobed, 3-celled 

 capsules. — Upright shrubs, with opposite pinnate leaves and 

 white flowers in raceme-like dusters, terminating the branchlcts. 



1. S. trifolia, L. Bladder-nut. 



Leaves tcrnatc, on long retioles: \tojl ts ovate, acuminate, serrulate, putesccnt, 

 Che terminal one pctioled; styles smooth. 



Moist thickets and ro \v places. May. Ahanrbone shrub Gto'O feet hijrbj 

 wth str: i ht ar.d.mcoh si Lder branches. Flcw^rs white, with epctj of orange, 



in pendulous clusters. 



Tribe 2. EUONYMK&k 



Leaves simple ; style 1 ; stigmw Z-labcd ; rvar.'e i '2 In eac't c il ; seels with pu'py arils ; 

 dis': adhering to t.\c lottom of t'.eca. 



2. CELASTRUS. Linn. Sitrulby Bitter-sweet. 



Flowers sometimes polygamous. Sepals 5, united at 

 base. Petals 5 sessile. St » mens on the margin of a 

 cup-shaped disk. Pistils en the disk. Capsule globose, 

 or 3-anglcd, 3-celled. Seeds 1 to 2 in each cell, erect, 

 enclosed by a pulpy scarlet aril — Climbing or twining 

 shrubs, with alternate leaves, minute decidual..; stipules and 

 small greenish flowers in raceme-like clusters terminating the 

 branches. 



C. scandenp, L. Climbing Bittcr-siceef. Wax-work. 



Stzrn ebmling and twining, unarmed ; leaves ol long, acuminate, serrate, pctlclcd, 

 etipules minut ■; racemes t nuinal ; few rs d oe-ious. 



"Wocds and thickets. May. June. A handsome climbing shrub, the stems 

 twining about tr< cs and ( ach oth r, ascending to a great hi ighf. Leaves jmoolh. 

 Flsnoers in small racemes, grot nish-wbite. Seeds covered w.th a Ecurkt aril, con- 

 tiuned in an orango-colorcd C-valvcd car sale. 



