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CELASTRlNEiE. Ill, Euonymus. 



Gerard Prick'timber. It is called also Loiise-herry, Dogwood, 2 or 3 times dichotomous, with a single flower in each fork; 



. F. -Native of Chittagong, in the 



East Indies, where it flowers in May. Flowers greenish-white. 



find Catteridge-tree. In German it is named Spindelhaum ; in flowers pentandrous. \ 



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Danish, Beenved; m Italian, Fusaggene ; m Spanish, Bonetero ; 

 Bonete de Clerigo ; in Portuguese, Barrete de Clerigo ; in Rus- 

 sian, Mereskletiana kislianka, Swida, Sedlini Beresdren. The 



/S^woo^A Spindle-tree. Tree 15 feet. 



7 E. GARCiNiFoLius (Roxb. in fl. ind. 2. p. 403.) branchlets 



wood is said to be used by musical instrument makers. For • smooth, terete ; leaves lanceolate, entire ; petals oblong, with 

 skewers and toothpicks the branches should be cut when the incurved edges, much longer than the calyx ; peduncles between 

 shrub is in blossom, for it is tough and not easily broken in the leaves, sometimes solitary, 3-flowered ; flowers pentandrous. 



that state; it is also used by watchmakers for cleaning watches : 



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Native of Silhet, in the East Indies, where it is called 

 id at Suemba m tipper Nipaul. E. lacerus, Hamilt. in 



it was formerly used to make spindles, hence the English name Mori^ and atSuemba m Upper Nipaul. 

 of the genus. According to Linnaeus, kine, goats, and sheep eat D.Don, prod. fl. nep. p. 191? Flowers small, pale-yellow, 

 the leaves, but horses refuse it. No animal, however, seems to Capsule oblong, size of a small field-bean, 1 -celled, 2-valved, 



from the base, containing a solitary, oval seed, covered 

 with a thin, succulent, veined, bright scarlet aril. 



Garcinia-leaved Spindle-tree. Fl. May. Clt. 1820. Tree 

 12 feet. 



8 E. TiNGENS (Walk in fl. ind. vol. 2. p. 406.) branchlets 



openmg 



browze upon it but the goat. The berries are said to be fatal 

 to sheep ; they are violently emetic and purgative ; powdered 

 and sprinkled upon the hair they destroy lice. The shrub 

 seldom attains any great size when growing wild in the hedges, 

 but when planted singly and properly trained it will have a 

 strong woody stem, and rise more than twenty feet high, divid- obscurely tetragonal, smooth ; leaves leathery, ovate-lanceolate, 



ing into many branches, and when in fruit it has a fine appear- 

 ance, the capsules being red and the seeds yellow. First flowers 



pentandrous, but the others are tetrandrous. 



Far, /5, leucocarpus (D. C. prod. 2. p. 4.} capsul 

 pale, as well as the seeds, 



European or Common Spindle-tree, Fl. May 

 Shrub 6 to 20 feet. 



2 E. 



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pedun 



cles 2 or 3 times dichotomous, short, flattened, disposed in 



numerous approximate pairs on the young shoots, with opposite, 



vhite or linear, fringed bracteas at each subdivision ; petals veined, ovate, 



with short claws ; capsule 5-cornered. T2 . F. Native of the 

 Britain. East Indies, on the summit of Sheopore, as well as on the 



Sewalik mountains, and on those of Shreenugur. Its Newar 

 cam. ed. 2. no. 268.) branches name is Kasooru Trunk as thick as a man's thigh, spotted 



warted; leaves ovate, somewhat serrated; peduncles 3-flowered; with large, ochre-coloured tubercles; branchlets short, thick. 



petals ovate ; capsule blvmtly tetragonal. T2 



Europe, particularly in Avistria, Hungary, and Carniola. Jacq. 

 fl. austr. t. 49. Duh. ed. nov. 3. t. 8. Schmidt, arb. t. 72. E. 



Native of Both the flower and leaf-buds consist of imbricated, lanceolate, 



fringed scales, and here and there interspersed among the pe 

 duncles. Flowers large, tetrandrous, or pentandrous, yellowish- 



Europoe'us leprosus, Lin, fil. suppl. 154. Petals covered with green, marked with purplish veins. The yellow bark is em- 



a pile consisting of very small teats. Capsules 3-4-celled, 3-4- 



valved ; cells 1 -seeded. Stigma bladder-like. Flowers small, 



' — -^^y;gejUsIi"\Yhite or greenish-yellow, tetrandrous and pentandrous. 



/lar^aZ-branched Spindle-tree. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1763. 



Shrub 6 to 8 feet. 



S E. LATiFOLius (C. Bauh. pin. 428.) branches smooth; 

 leaves broad-ovate, toothletted ; peduncles trichotomous, many- 

 floweretl ; petals oval, obtuse ; lobes of capsule acutely angled, 

 wing-formed. I2 • H. Native of Europe, in groves from 

 Dauphiny to Tauria. Jacq. austr. t. 289. Sims, hot. mag. 

 2384. Jacq. hort. vind. 2. t. 120. Duh. arb. ed. nov. 3. t. 7. 



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Flowers usvxally pentandrous, 



ployed by the Nipaidese for the purpose of marking the forehead 

 with the idolatrous symbol, commonly called Tika. The wood 

 is white and compact. Capsule about the size of a gooseberry, 

 4-5-cornered, 5-seeded. 



Painting Spindle-tree. Fl. April, May. Tree \6 to 20 feet. 



9 E. riMBRiA'Tus (Wall, in fl. ind. 2. p. 408.) branches terete, 

 smooth ; leaves ovate, finely acuminated, fringed with long 

 parallel toothed serratures ; flowers tetrandrous, subumbellate, 

 on long filiform peduncles ; capsules with from 2-5 long, ver- 

 tical tapering wings. T2 . F. Native of the East Indies, on the 

 Sewalik mountains, as well as on those of Shreenugur. It is 

 impossible to confound this with any other species, the leaves 

 being distinctly doubly-serrated. 



Fringecf-leaved Spindle-tree. Tree. 



10 E. GRo'ssus (Wall, in fl. ind. 2. p. 408.) branches dotted; 

 leaves subopposite, ovate, acute, bluntly and coarsely serrated 



white at first, but becoming purplish as they fade. Capsules red? 



Broad'leated Spindle-tree. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1730. 

 Shrub 10 to 20 feet. 



4 E. NA^NUs (Bieb. fl. taur. suppl. p. IGO.) branches smooth, 

 somewhat herbaceous; leaves lanceolate, quite entire, nearly on longish footstalks ; peduncles twice d^ichotomous, with long, 

 opposite; peduncles I-3-flowered; flowers tetrandrous, 4-pe- divaricating divisions, supported by a pair of lanceolate, acute 

 tailed. Tj . H. Native of the north of Caucasus. A little ' --^ _____ 



shrub, with the appearance of Cnebrum trkoccum. The fruit 

 being unknown the genus is doubtful. Flowers whitish? 

 Dnar/ Spindle-tree. Clt. 1825. Shrub 2 feet. 



Asiatic. 



5 E. Hamiltonia'nus (Wall, in fl. ind. 2. p. 403.) branches 

 smooth, terete ; leaves lanceolate, finely serrated ; peduncles 

 dichotomous, 6-flowered ; flowers tetrandrous ; petals 4, lan- 

 ceolate, cordate ; ovary 4-lobed, 4-celled, each cell contain- 



2 ova. T2 . H. Native of Nipaul. E. atropurpiirea, 

 Wall, in fl. ind. 2. p. 402. Trunk erect ; branchlets spreadint^. 

 Petals with revolute edges, white. Anthers brown. 



Hamilton's Spindle-tree. Fl. April, May. Clt. 1825. Sh. 

 5 to 20 feet. 



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6 E. gla'buus (Roxb. fl- ind. 2. p. 403.) arboreous ; leaves 

 oblong, smooth, with the anterior margin serrated ; peduncles 



bracteas; petals oblong. ^2. F. Native of Nipaul, on the 

 northward of Sheopore, flowering in June. Leaves shining, 

 rounded at the base, elegantly reticulated beneath. 



Coarse-serrated Spindle-tree. Clt. 1 824. Tree 1 2 feet. 



11 E. iNmcus (Heyne, herb. Wall, in fl. ind. 2. p. 409.) 

 branches terete, smooth ; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminated, quite entire ; peduncles 1 -3-flowered; petals oval, 

 fringed ; flowers pentandrous ; capsule clavate, furnished with 

 5 short projecting wings. T2 . F. Native of the East Indies. 



Branchlets slender, slightly quadrangular. Leaves acute at the 

 base. 



Indian Spindle -tree. Shrub 8 feet. 



12 E. wcho'tomus (Heyne, herb. Wall, in fl. ind. 2. p. 410.) 

 branchlets slightly quadrangular ; leaves linear-lanceolate, acu- 

 nimate at both ends, perfectly entire ; peduncles fascicled, fili- 

 form, one-third shorter than the leaves, g or 3 times dichoto- 

 mous at the apex, bearing a number of small nentandrous 



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