CELASTRACEAE. 195 
EvonyMus. Burning Bush. Spindle Tree. 
(Family Celastraceae). 
Shrubs or very small trees, ex- 
ceptionally scrambling or climb- 
ing by aerial roots: deciduous or 
a few species evergreen. Twigs 
moderate, terete or mostly 4-lined 
from the nodes, sometimes with 
warty lenticels or corky wings, 
characteristically green: pith 
round, angled or 4-armed, green- 
ish, spongy or finally incompletely 
excavated. Buds small to rather 
large, solitary, sessile, with 3 to 
rarely 5 pairs of at first serrulate 
scales. Leaf-scars opposite or ex- 
ceptionally whorled or the pairs 
broken, half-elliptical, rather 
small, somewhat elevated: bundle- 
trace 1, transverse, toward the top 
of the scar: stipule-scars minute 
and usually indistinct. (Huony- 
Mus). 
Winter-character references:—Evonymus alatus. Shira- 
sawa, 278, pl. 2. EH. atropurpureus. Brendel, 28, 29, 30, pl. 1; 
eixteheoek (1), 3, £: 4; (3), 9,° (4), 34, £. i ff: -eurendens. 
Bosemann, 65; Fant, 44, f. 48; Schneider, f. 209; Ward, 1:172, 
f. 85; Willkomm, 51, f. 95; Zuccarini, 12, pl. 7. E. europaeus 
Hamiltonianus. Shirasawa, 278, pl. 12. H. latifolius. Schnei- 
der, £2195; Willkomm, -11, 52; f£. 96; Zueccarini,*10, pl. -6s 2. 
nanus. Schneider, f. 209. H. oxyphyllus. Shirasawa, 277, 
pl. 12. EH. verrucosus. Bosemann, 65; Schneider, f. 209; Will- 
Homm,. 52, f..97; Zucearini, 11, pl. 6. 
Gibson pictures a very large waahoo tree at p. 499 of his 
American Forest Trees. 
