Tripterygium
(from treis, three, and pterygion, a small wing; referring to the fruit). ORD. Celastrineae. A monotypic genus. The species is a highly glabrous, hardy, sub-scandent shrub. For culture, see Celastrus. T. Wilfordii (Wilford's). fl. white, small: calyx five-lobed; petals five, inserted at the base of the disk; stamens five, on the margin of the disk, the filaments subulate; disk broadly cup-shaped; racemes short, axillary and terminal. June. fr. 1/2in. long, dry, indehiscent, three-winged, one-seeded. l. alternate, petiolate, ovate-oblong, attenuated at apex, serrated, thickly veined, exstipulate. h. 2ft. to 3ft. Japan, Formosa, and Corea, 1867. (R. G. 612.)