. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Family 78. STAPHYLEACEAE DC. Prodr. 2: 2. 1825. Trees or shrubs, with mostly opposite odd-pinnate or 3-foliolate stipulate leaves, and regular perfect flowers in terminal or axillary clusters. Sepals, petals and stamens usually 5. Carpels mostly 3. Disk large, the stamens in- serted at its base without. Anthers introrse, 2-celled. Fruit a dehisce
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Family 78. STAPHYLEACEAE DC. Prodr. 2: 2. 1825. Trees or shrubs, with mostly opposite odd-pinnate or 3-foliolate stipulate leaves, and regular perfect flowers in terminal or axillary clusters. Sepals, petals and stamens usually 5. Carpels mostly 3. Disk large, the stamens in- serted at its base without. Anthers introrse, 2-celled. Fruit a dehiscent blad- dery capsule in the following genus, indehiscent in some others. Seeds solitary or few in each carpel; testa hard ; endosperm fleshy ; embryo straight. About 5 genera, and 22 species, widely distributed. I. STAPHYLEA L. Sp. PI. 270. 1753. Shrubs, with opposite 3-foliolate or pinnate leaves, and axillary drooping racemes or panicles of white flowers. Pedicels jointed. Sepals imbricated. Petals the same number as the sepals and about equalling them. Ovary 2-3-parted, the lobes i-celled; ovules numerous in each cavity, anatropous. Capsule 2-3-lobed, 2-3-celled. Seeds globose. [Greek, cluster.] About 6 species, of the north temperate zone. 5, Bolanderi A. Gray occurs in California. Type species : Slapltylea p. I. Staphylea trifolia L. American Bladder- nut. Fig. 2803. Staphylea trifolia L. Sp. PI. 270. I753- A branching shrub, 6°-iS° high, or in the south sometimes a tree up to 30° high with a trunk 6' in diameter, with smooth striped bark. Young leaves and petioles pubescent; mature foliage glabrate; stipules linear, 4"-6" long, caducous; leaflets ovate or oval, ii'-2i' long, acuminate at the apex, obtuse or somewhat cuneate at the base, finely and sharply serrate, the lateral ones sessile or nearly so, the terminal one stalked; stipels subulate;'flowers cam- panulate, racemed, about 4" long; pedicels bracted at the base, slightly longer than the flowers
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