. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. , anatropal, attached to ashort funiculus. Fruit supe-rior, 2- to 5-celled, either cap-sulai or drupaceous. Seedsascending, seldom inverted byresupination, either providedwith an aril, or without one ;albumen fleshy ; embryostraight; cotyledons flat andthick, with a short inferiorradicle. Formerly confounded withRhamnads, this Order wasfirst separated by Bro^\^l,whodistmguished it paiticularlyby the relation which its sta-mens bear to the petals. Italso difiers in its imbricate
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. , anatropal, attached to ashort funiculus. Fruit supe-rior, 2- to 5-celled, either cap-sulai or drupaceous. Seedsascending, seldom inverted byresupination, either providedwith an aril, or without one ;albumen fleshy ; embryostraight; cotyledons flat andthick, with a short inferiorradicle. Formerly confounded withRhamnads, this Order wasfirst separated by Bro^\^l,whodistmguished it paiticularlyby the relation which its sta-mens bear to the petals. Italso difiers in its imbricatedcalyx, and in its disk beinghypogynous. According toBrongniart, Spindle - treeshave more relation to severalOrders with hypogjuous sta-mens than to any ^vith peri-gynous ones, especially toMalpighiads, to which they are related through Hippocrateads ; a considerable resem-blance with such Spm-geworts as Phyllanthus may also be traced ; and HoUywortshave been principally estabhshed upon dismemberments of the present Order. Never-theless, the distinctions between it and both Spurgeworts and Hollyworts are easy to. Fig. cccxcvn. Fig. edulls. Rhamnales.] CELASTRACE^. 587 trace ; for the former arc constantly diclinous, and the latter monopetalous ; besideswhich, the radicle of Spindle-trees is inferior, that of Spuigeworts superior ; and thealbumen of Hollyworts is exticmely copious, while that of Spuulle-trces is comparativelyinconsiderable in quantity. The drupaceous genera, fonnuag the Elroodendrous Sub-order, establish an affinity with Sapotads, which have, however, a monopetalouscorolla and milky juice, and their stamens, when those which are fertile equal innmnber the segments of the corolla, are opposite to the latter. Endlicher finds aresemblance with Pittosporads, and justly adds that all the drupaceous geneia aregreatly in need of more careful examination. According to M. Planchon, the arillus of Euonymus is a peculiar expansion of theexostome, and is not
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