478 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
rolla, and open lengthwise towards the stigma, which is sim- 
ple and supported by 3 cohering styles as long as the stamens. 
Fruit an inch and a half or two inches long, made up of 3 mem- 
branous capsules or pods, grown together, each ending in an 
awl-like point, which is the style. The pods are not unlike 
pea-pods in texture, and strongly resemble them in smell. The 
seeds are usually abortive, except, in one of the pods, a single 
one, which is brown, ovoid, and flattened at one end. 
The seeds of the European species, which is very analogous 
to ours, differing from it in having 5 to 7 leaflets, are strung as 
beads by Roman Catholics in some countries. The wood is 
yellowish-white and close-grained. 
XXX. 2. THE STAFF TREE. CELAST'RUS. L. 
A genus of nearly seventy species of unarmed, climbing 
shrubs, found in America, Asia, and tropical Africa. Flowers 
small, pale yellowish-green, in axillary or terminal, bracteated 
racemes Leaves alternate, of thin texture, with very minute 
stipules. 
Fertile and sterile flowers sometimes on separate plants. 
Calyx 5-lobed, forming a short tube. Petals 5. Stamens 5. 
Ovary 3-celled, sessile on the fleshy disk. Styles short, united, 
with a 3-lobed stigma. Capsule imperfectly 2- or 3-celled. 
Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, enclosed in a pulpy aril. Embryo in 
the thin albumen, nearly as long as the seeds. Cotyledons 
broad and leaf-like. 
Tue Cruising Starr Trem. Wax-Work. C. scandens. L. 
This is a beautiful, twining shrub, climbing over rocks, bushes 
and trees, often to the height of fifteen or twenty feet, and de- 
lighting in moist and shady situations. The stem is very slen- 
der, rarely more than an inch thick, preserving its size but 
enlarging at the angle of the branches and just below. It is of 
an olive green, or alder color, ash or clay-colored above, con- 
spicuously dotted with numerous, oval, brown dots, and termi- 
nating in long and slender green shoots, with small leaves. 
The leaves vary from egg-shaped to elliptic and inverse egg- 
shaped, acute or somewhat decurrent or rounded at base, with 
