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rhsea^s, which it flops in two or three days, without 
any bad confequences ; but alfo in the mofl invete- 
rate Venereal complaints. The leaves are dried and 
ufed by fome as a fubflitute for Bohea Tea, from 
which it acquired its name. 
CEL A S T R U S. 
The STAFF-TREE. 
Oafs 5. Order 1. Pentandria Monogynia„ 
T^HE Empalement is of one leaf, half-five- cleft, plane, and 
very fmall: the divifions areobtufe and unequal. 
The Corolla has five petals, ovate, fpreading,, feflile, equal and 
reflexed at their margins. 
The Filaments are five, awl-fhaped and the length of the corolla. 
The Antherce are very fmall. 
The Germen is very fmall, immerfed in the receptacle, which is 
large, plane, and marked with ten ftreaks. The Style is awl- 
ihaped and ihorter than the ftamina. The Stigma is obtufe, 
and three-cleft. 
The Seed-vejjel is a Capfule, coloured, ovate, obtufely three- 
cornered, gibbous, three cell’d, and three valv’d. 
The Seeds are few, ovate, coloured, fmootb, and half covered 
with an Arillus, four parted at the mouth, unequal and co- 
loured. 
The Species but one y with us , viz. 
Celastrus fcandens. American Climing Staff-tree. 
This grows naturally in many parts of North- 
America, rifing with a twining woody flem to the 
height of ten or fifteen feet when fupported, fend- 
ing out many flender flexible branches, cloathed 
with oblong pointed leaves, a little fawed on their 
edges. The flowers come out from the Tides of the 
branches in logfe bunches \ they are of an herbace- 
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