CHAP. XXXIII. C'ELASTRA^CEiE. i'UO'NYMUS. 50.1 



introduced in 1825 ; and there are plants of it in the London Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, and in some nurseries. A standard plant of it, in the 

 garden of the London Horticultural Society, in an open situation, was, 

 in 1834, 4 ft. high, after being 4 years planted." Plants against a wall, in the 

 same garden, are 10 ft. high. The species is striking from the whiteness 

 of its stem, and the largeness of its leaves. The plant above mentioned, 

 which is trained to a wall, flowers pretty freely ; but the flowers are small, 

 and the cymes of them do not make a show : they are of a yellowish green 

 colour. 



1 l\. E. GARCiN/.Ero'z,/r5 Roxb. The Garcinia-leaved Euonymus, o*- 

 Spindle Tree. 



Iilcntification. Iloxb. in FL Ind., 2. p. 403. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 4. 



Synonyme. E. lacerus Ham. in D. Don's Prod. Fl. Ncp., p. 191.?, Dec. Prod., 2. p. 5., Don's Mill., 

 2. p. 4. . ^ 



Spec. Char., ^c. Branchlet^ smooth, terete. Leaves lanceolate, entire. Tetals oblong, with incurved 

 edges, much longer than the calvx. Peduncles between the leaves, sometimes solitary, 3-flowered. 

 Flowers pentandrous. {Dun's il'ill., ii. p. 4.) A shrub or tree, growing to the height of 12 ft. ; a 

 native of Nepal; introduced in 1820. The flowers are small, pale yellow; the capsule oblong, 

 about the size of a small field bean, l.celled,2-valved, opening from the base, containing one oval 

 seed, covered with a thin, succulent, veined, bright scarlet aril. [Ibid.) This appears to be a very 

 remarkable species ; but we have not seen plants of it. 



^ 12. E. grandiflo'rus Wall. The large-flowered Euonynuis, or Spindle 



Tree. 



Identification. Wall, in Fl. Ind., 2. p. 404.; Don's Mill., 2. p. 5. 



Spec. Char., &c. Branches terete, smooth. Leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse, acutely serrate, with a 

 tapering entire base. Peduncles slender, flattened, nearly equalling the length of the leaves, 3— 

 6-flowered. Flowers tetrandrous ; petals orbicular, flat, with curled edges. Capsule globular, pen- 

 dulous, obscurely 4-cornered, with, usually, geminate pendulous seeds. {Duti's Mill., 2. p. 5.) A 

 shrub, growing 10 ft. high, in the forest of Nepal, where it is very ornamental, both when in 

 flower and when loaded with its yellow pendulous capsules, each of which is furnished with as 

 many as 6 black pendulous seeds. The flowers are white, very large, scentless, slightly nodding; 

 •capsule very nearly globular, about the size of a cherry, 4-cclled, 4.valved. Seeds oval, black, half 

 covered by a brilliant red, minutely lobed, waited aril, (ibid.) This very desirable species has not 

 yet been introduced. 



App. i. Half-hard^ Species of Eiiojii/mtis, or Species 'which, ac- 

 cording to G. Do}i, " Kill, no doubf, turn out to be tndy 

 hardy." 



The following are already in the country, and treated as frame or grecii- 

 liouse plants : — 



^ E. grdssus Wall., a tree of Nepal, growing 12 ft. high, and introduced in 

 1824. 



S E. micrdnthus D. Don, a Nepal shrub of 8 ft. high, introduce*! in 1820. 



!tt E. liici'dus D. Don, a Nepal shrub of 6 ft, high, introduced in 1820. 



¥ K.Jap'i/iicus Thunb., an elegant Japan tree, growing to the height of 

 20 ft., introduced in 1804. 



_t E. cchinatus Wall., a climbing and rooting shrub from Nepal, in 1824. 

 (fig. 170.) Found on mountains, at the height of from 5,000 ft. to 7,000 ft. 



The following species, marked in Don's Miller as frame plants, are not yet 

 introduced : — 



*l E. tingins Wall., a tree of Nepal, growing to the height of 16 ft. or 

 20 ft., the yellow bark of which is employed by the Nepalese for the pur- 

 pose of marking the forehead with their religio'us symbol, commonly called 

 ticha. This is also found on mountains. In p. 173., under the order Ce- 

 lastraceae, are enumerated two other Nepal species, which will probably 

 prove hardy ; and which will be found described below. 



^ E. glUberRoxb., a tree growing to the height of 15 ft., in Chittagong, in 

 the East Indies. • 



J E. fimbridtus Wall., a tree from the Sewalfik Mountains, in India, with 

 doublv serrated leaves. 



^ E. indicus Heyne, an East India shrub 8 ft. high. 



_^ E. vagans Wall., a most extensive climbing and rambling shrub, in the 

 mountainous forests of Nepal, resembling E. echinfktus, but never throwing out roots at the joints. 



at E. subtrifidrus Blume, and E. Tkunbergiknus Blume, are Japan shrubs, of which little appears to 

 be known. 



The following species are those above alluded to, as mentioned in Royle's Illustrations, and not in- 

 cluded in Don's Miller : — 



E. p^ndulus Wall., a Nepal tree, considered by some as identical with E. japonicus, and found on 

 the Himalaya Mountains, at an elevation of about 5,000 ft. 



E.frigidus Wall, is also a Nepal tree, which is generally found with E. fimbri&ta, at not less than 

 8,000 ft. of elevation. 



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