N.“ORD.—CELASTRACEAs. A2 
Tribe.—EVONYMEA., 
GENUS.—EUONYMU S,* TOURN. 
SEX. SYST.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
KUONYMUS 
A'TROPURPUREUS. 
WA-A-HOO. 
SYN.—EUONYMUS ATROPURPUREUS, JACQ.; EH. CAROLINIENSIS, AND LATI- 
FOLIUS, MARSH. 
COM. NAMES.—WAHOO, WAHOON, BURNING BUSH, SPINDLE-TREE, INDIAN 
ARROW-WOOD; (FR.) FUSAIN, OU BONNET DE PRETRE; (GER.) SPINDEL- 
BAUM. 
A TINCTURE OF THE FRESH BARK OF EUONYMUS ATROPURPUREUS, JACQ. 
Description.—This low shrub seldom attains, out of cultivation, a height of over 
10 feet, varying usually from 6 to 10. Stem erect; branches straight, appearing 
more or less terete by having 4 double, white, linear ridges upon its surface, dark 
blotched with white verrucose spots between the ridges. Leaves opposite, thin, 
petioled ; oval-oblong, acute at the base, and pointed; margin finely serrate ; midr16 
prominent. /zflorescence loose, few-flowered, divaricate cymes, terminating long, 
lateral and axillary, drooping peduncles, ranged along the young shoots of the 
season ; flowers perfect, their parts in fours. Cadyx short and flat; sepals orbicular, 
spreading, united at the base. efa/s broadly ovate, somewhat acute, spreading. 
Stamens mounted upon the angles of a flat, somewhat quadrilateral disk, which is 
more or less united with the ovary and covers its superior surface ; filaments merely 
mamma-like processes of the disk ; anthers appearing sessile, 2-celled, opening by 
a broad transverse chink upon their upper faces, and furnished with a broad dorsal 
connective. Sty/e simply a central projection of the disk; stigma hardly evident. 
Fruita smooth deeply four lobed and celled, loculicidal capsule ; ced/s 2 to 3 seeded; 
seeds elliptical, ashy, enveloped by a red aril. 
Celastraceszs.—Shrubs with simple, opposite or alternate leaves; stipules 
minute caducous. Vowers small and regular; @stivation imbricate. Calyx 4 to 5 
lobed, persistent. Pedals plane, as many as the sepals, and inserted by a broad 
base underneath the disk. .Sfamens as many as the petals and alternate with 
them, inserted upon a disk which fills the calyx cup and is sometimes more or less 
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* Evovopn, Zuonyme, the mother of the Furies; or ¢3, ex, well; Svoxa, onoma, named ; alluding to the poisonous 
effects of the plant upon cattle, 
