en ee ee Yo i ee ee ae ee eee eee eee ee — 
Ohta eae 
ae A ee er 
CELASTRINEZ. 347 
More than four-fifths of the ash consist of calcium carbonate, 
mostly from the reduced calcium oxalate. 
EUONYMUS CRENULATUS, Wail. 
Fig,— Wight, Ic. t. 973; Bedd., Fl. Sylv. t. 144. 
Hab.— Western Peninsula, Nilgiri hills, 
penis 
EUONYMUS PENDULUS, Wall. 
- Hab.—Temperate Himalaya, East Bengal. 
EUONYMUS TINGENS, Wall. 
| Hab.—Western Temperate Himalaya. 
Vernacular.—Bérphali, Sikhi, © Rangchil, Guli, Papar, 
a Chopra, Kunku, Késari (Hind.). These names are applied 
indiscriminately to several Himalayan species. 
History, Uses, &c.—The genus Euonymus consists of 
q + about forty species, most of which are natives of the tropical 
regions of Asia and the Malay Archipelago, but a few are 
_ Scattered over Europe and America. A shrub called évavupos 
is mentioned by Theophrastus (H. P.3; 18, 19), also by Pliny 
: 4 (13, 38) ; it was reputed to be poisonous, and to cause purging 
and vomiting. Matthiolus (Valgr. V., 2, 178, f.) identifies it 
4 with Euonymus europeus, and Gerarde calls the same plant 
__ E. Theophrasti. In English it is called Dogwood, Prickwood, 
_ Skewerwood, or Spindlewood; the French call it Fusain and 
_ the Germans Spindelbaum. The generic name, which in Greek 
signifies “of good repute,” is applied to this genus by anti- 
phrasis, The fruit of H. ewropa@us is sometimes used in Europe 
to destroy lice. A drug called Huonymin, prepared by preci- — 
: ; pitating a concentrated tincture of the bark of B. atropurpures 
__with water, was first introdueed by the Eclectic physicians of 
America. Griffith (Med. Botany) states that BE, americanus, : 
L. europeus, H. atropurpureus and several other species oa 
Similar properties, being all nauseous, purgative and emelio, 
