THE 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
APRIL 1848. 
ART. XX.— ON EUONYMUS ATROPURPUREUS ET AMERI- 
CANUS. 
By Charles A. Santos, Norfolk, Virginia. 
(An Inaugural Essay.) 
Nat. Orel. Celastbaci^. 
Sex. Syst. Fentandria Monogynia. 
EuoNYMus. Sepals 4-5 (rarely 6,) united at the base, 
forming a short fiat calyx. Petals 4-5 (rarely 6.) Stamens 
inserted on the upper surface of the broad and flat disk : fila- 
ments short, the base persistent : anthers with a thick con- 
nectivum at the back, opening transversely or longitudinally. 
Ovary immersed in the disk, with as many 2-3 ovuled cells 
as petals : styles united, short and thick : stigmas united into 
one, obtuse or lobed. Capsule 4-5-lobed, 4-5-celled, lo- 
culicidal. Seeds usually enclosed in a fleshy red or pur- 
ple aril. Embryo with broad foliaceous cotyledons ; albu- 
men fleshy and oily. Shrubs, sometimes trailing or climb- 
ing by rootlets. Leaves opposite, serrate. Stipule's mostly 
none. Peduncles axillary, 1, many-flowered: inflores- 
cence cymose. — Torrey S^- Gray, Flora N. Amer. 
EuoNYMus Atropurpureus, (Jacq.) branches smooth — 
leaves (rather large) oval or elliptical, oblong, acuminate, 
mostly acute at the base, finely serrate, on distinct petioles, 
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