Addisonia 7 



(Plate 84) 



EUONYMUS ALATA 

 Winged Euonymus 



Native of eastern temperate Asia 



Family Celastracea^ Staff-trbE Family 



ICelastrus striatus Thunb. Fl. Jap. 98. 1784. 



Celastrus alatus Thunb. FI. Jap. 98. 1784. 



Euonymus Thunbergiana Blume, Bijd. Fl. Ned. Ind. 1147. 1826. 



Euonymus alata Thunb.; Regel, Mem. Acad. St.-Petersb. VII. 4*: 42. 1861. 



A handsome shrub, dense in habit and freely branching, with 

 attractive fohage, tm-ning rich crimson in autumn, and with numerous 

 flowers in the summer, followed in the fall by a profusion of bright 

 red fruits which persist for a long time. The branches are ascending, 

 with four prominent corky dark-colored wings, which are especially 

 conspicuous during the winter when the foliage is gone. At flower- 

 ing time the glabrous growths of the year rarely have these wings, 

 but they are usually developed with the maturing of the fruit. The 

 leaves are opposite, on stalks an eighth of an inch long or less, elliptic 

 to obovate, abruptly acuminate, glabrous, a Httle paler beneath; 

 they measure an inch to two inches long and up to an inch wide, and 

 their margins are rather closely and finely serrate. The flowers, the 

 general appearance of which is a yellowish-green, are from one third 

 to one half an inch in diameter, and are borne, usually in threes, in 

 axillary cymes; the parts are in fotus. The sepals are very short, 

 much broader than long. The petals are orbicular or nearly so, an 

 eighth of an inch long or a little more, obtuse or sometimes rather 

 apiculate; their margins are entire or somewhat crenulate. The 

 stamens are very short, inserted on a disk. The style is very short. 

 The purplish capsule is often of a single carpel, or sometimes of two to 

 fom- carpels, in which case one or more are commonly abortive; the 

 dehiscing carpel discloses a bright orange-red aril which encloses a 

 brown seed, or rarely two seeds. 



This, one of the best of all omr decorative shrubs, grows native in 

 Japan, Manchuria, the Amur region, and in north and central China. 

 It is one of the shrubs easy to grow, accommodating itself readily to 

 its surroundings, and is a thing of beauty in summer and winter. 

 Its crisp fresh foliage gives it a dainty appearance in the month of 

 May, when its flowers usually appear. As the season advances the 

 leaves become of a grayer hue, and in the autumn turn to a rich 

 crimson, which, with the bright orange-red of the exposed arils, makes 

 it one of the most conspicuous shrubs of that season. As the leaves 

 fall the bright red fruit appears even more conspicuous, and the 



