BITTERSWEET FAMILY 211 



CELASTRALES BITTERSWEET ORDER 



CELASTRACEAE BITTERSWEET FAMILY 



Sepals 4-5, united, petals 4-5, separate, stamens 4-5, inserted on the 

 disk, alternate with the petals, ovary 3-4-celled, stigma entire or 3-5-lobed, 

 fruit a fleshy or dry 2-5-celled pod, splitting when ripe; flowers regular, 

 usually purplish, solitary or in terminal or axillary clusters ; trees or shrubs, 

 sometimes climbing, with alternate or opposite simple leaves. 



1. Flowers 5-parted ; erect shrubs, often with spiny 



branches Forsellesia 



2. Flowers 4-parted ; spreading or trailing evergreen 



shrubs without spines Paciiystigma 



Forsellesia Greene 1893 



(Named for Forselles, a Swedish botanist) 



PL 33, fig. 2. 



Sepals 5, united, petals. 5, white, separate, long-linear, stamens 5-10, 

 ovary 1-celled, with 2 ovules, fruit dry, ovoid, pointed; flowers solitary, 

 axillary ; leaves alternate, simple ; low shrub, often spiny. 

 Stems 1-2 ft. high; leaves oblong to spatulate, 1-2 cm. 



long ; petals about 1 cm. long F. spinescens 



Paciiystigma Rafinesque. 1818 



(Gr. pachys, thick, stigma, stigma; incorrectly Pachystima) 



PI. 33, fig. 1. 



Sepals 4, united, petals 4, brownish, separate, stamens 4, ovary 2- 

 celled, immersed in the disk, stigma 2-lobed, capsule 2-celled, 1-2-seeded, 

 splitting ; flowers axillary, solitary or clustered ; leaves opposite, simple, 

 leathery, evergreen ; low shrub. 

 Stems .5-3 ft. high; leaves oblong fo oblanceolate 1-3 



in. long P. myrsinites 



VITACEAE GRAPE FAMILY 



Sepals 4-5, united into an entire or toothed calyx, petals 4-5, separate 

 or cohering, falling early, stamens 4-5, ovary 1, usually immersed in the 

 disk, 2-6-celled, fruit mostly a 2-celled berry ; flowers greenish, perfect, 

 polygamous or dioecious, in racemes, cymes or panicles; climbing shrubs 

 with tendrils and alternate, lobed or compound leaves. 



1. Leaves simple, lobed Vitis 



2. Leaves usually of 5 leaflets Parthenocissus 



