206 FLORA OF TEXAS. 



bose, commonly 3-celled and 3-valved ; seeds 1-2 in each 

 cell, enclosed in a fleshy scarlet aril ; embryo in the axis 

 of copious fleshy albumen.— Climbing shrubs, with alter- 

 nate leaves, and small greenish flowers in axillary or ter- 

 minal racemes. 



C. SCANDEXS. Leaves oblong-ovate or obovate, acumi- 

 nate, serrate, smooth ; racemes terminating the branches, 

 nearly simple ; capsule orange-colored. 



38. MAPLE FAMILY. Acerace^. 



Trees or shrubs, with opposite lobed or pinnate exstipu- 

 late leaves and regular mostly polygamous or dioecious 

 flowers, with an imbricated aestivation. Calyx 4-9-1 obed ; 

 petals as many as the lobes of the calyx or none; stamens 

 4-12, inserted with the petals into a hypogynous disk ; 

 ovary 2-celled, with 2 pendulous amphitropous ovules in 

 each cell, forming in fruit a double 2-seeded samara; 

 styles 2 ; seeds with little or no albumen ; embryo folded 

 or spirally coiled. 



* Flowers on long and drooping umbellate or corymbose pedicels^ developed from 

 lateral and terminal buds. 



ACER. 



A. SACCHARIJMT3I. {Sugav Maple.) Leaves cordate, with 

 3-5 acute or acuminate sinuate-toothed lobes, paler and 

 slightly pubescent beneath ; flowers umbellate-corymbed, 

 appearing with the leaves ; calyx bell-shaped, fringed on the 

 margin, nearly as long as the stamens; petals none.— A 

 large tree ; leaves 3-5' wide. 



** Flower,^ on short and erect clustered pedicels, developed from lateral bud^; and 

 appearing before the leaves; fruiting pedicels long and drooping. 



A. KUBRUM, L. {Red or Swamp Jfaple.) Leaves 3-5- 

 lobed, or undivided, smooth or pubescent, either cordate or 

 rounded, or sometimes acute at the base toothed and ser- 



