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each of which supports one flower : the fruit 

 siiccvilint, irregularly sliapeil, atul inclosing a siu- 

 gio nut of a ruundish lorm, commonly ontusely 

 miadraugular ; but sometimes ovate, an inch and 

 h;df in diameter, fleshy, very sweet, smelling hke 

 the rose, covered with a thin shinnig vellowisli 

 skin; and conimonly lontaining one large seed, 

 roundish, and sottish, hut not bony : the Iruit is 

 very agreeable to the taste, smell and sii;hl, and es- 

 teemed wliolesome. Forster describes a as whitish, 

 tinged with rose-colour, pear-shaped, and some- 

 times as bit; as ilic ti>t, but usually much smaller. 

 It is common in the islands in ihc South Sea. 



The second species rises to the same height, 

 but thelcavcb arc loivj,er and narrower: the flowers 

 termmating, but some come out tri>m the sides, 

 greenish yellow: the fruit smaller, rounder, 

 pear-shaped, white and red, and not so much 

 esteemed. It is a native of the East Indies, 

 6cc. flowering from May to July. 



The third species has solitary peduncles: the 

 flowers are white : fruit bright red, soft, slightly 



froovcd, and having a sweet smell. First 

 rought from Goa. 



Ctillure. — These plants may be propagated by 

 setting the stones of the fruit as soon as procured 

 from the places where they grow naturallv, in 

 pots filled with light mold, plunging them in the 

 hot-bed, and keeping the earth about them con- 

 stantly moist, but not too wet. 



When the plants have attained five or six 

 inches growth, they should be carefully removed 

 and placed in separate pots of a snjall size, re- 

 plunging them in the hot-bed, due shade being 

 given till they are well rooted again. They after- 

 wards require to be managed as other tender 

 plants of the same nature, to be retained 

 constantly in the stove, and to have but little 

 wat^-r in the winter season. 



They may likewise be sometimes raised by 

 laying down the young shoots under the same 

 circumstances. 



They afford variety in stove collections among 

 other curious exotic plants. 



ElJONYAiUS, a genus comprising plants of 

 the hardy flowering shrubbv kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandria 

 'Monogyuia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Dumoice. 



The characters arc: that the calyx is a one- 

 leaved, five-parttd, flat perianthiuin : divisions 

 roundish, concave: the corolla has five petals, 

 '•vate, flat, spreading, longer than the calvx: 

 the stamina consist of five sul)ulate filan)ents, 

 upright, shorter than the corolla, phiced on the 

 gtrm as it were on a receptacle: anthers twin : 

 the pistilliim is an acuminate germ: style 

 shorl, simple: stigma acute: the pericarpium isa 



a. 



succulent capsule, coloured, five-sided, five-cor- 

 nered, five-tellcd, five-valvcd : the seeds solitary, 

 ovate, involved in a berried aril. 



The species cultivated arc: 1. E. Eiirof>ieu%, 

 Common Spindle-Tree; 2. 7J. /alifolius,\iro»ii- 

 leavtd Spindle-Tree; 3. /J. vernicoxui, Wartcd 

 Spindle- free; 4. E. atro-fjurpiirt-us. Purple- 

 flowered Spindle-'IVee; 5. E. amcricaiius, Ever- 

 green S|)nidlc-'i'ree. 



The first is a shrub; but if planted singly, 

 and propel ly trained, it will rise more than 

 t\\ enly teet high, w ith a strong woodv stem divid- 

 ing into many branches : the le.ives are lanceolate, 

 about three inches long, and an ineli and quar- 

 ter broad in the middle, opposite, entire, of a 

 deep green colour : the flowers come out at the 

 end of May or the bci>inning of .June, in small 

 bunches from the sitte of the stalks on slendtT 

 peduncles : the petals are whitish, and spread in 

 form of a cross: the fruit ripens in October, 

 when the seed-ve.-sels spread open and expose 

 the seeds, which being of a beautiful red colour 

 render the aj^pearancc of these shrubs very fine. 



The second species rises with a stronger stem 

 than the lirst, and c;rows to a larger size : the 

 leaves are ovate-lanceolate, about four inches 

 long, and two broad in the middle, opposite, en- 

 tire, light green, on short foot-stalks : the (lowers 

 come out from the side of the branches, upoj^i very 

 slender peduncles, two inches ami a half long, 

 branching out into a loose bunch, and die flowers 

 on separate pedicles, of a purplish colour: the 

 fruit is much larger than in the common sort, 

 and always hangs down. It is a native {\1' 

 Austria, &c. 



The third differs from the two former in hav- 

 ing the steni and branches warted, the upper 

 surface of the petals covered with a pile consist- 

 ing of very small teats : the anthers rounded, 

 and placed upon their pyramidal filaments like 

 the cap of a mushroom ; a raised tubercle sup- 

 porting each iilamcnt : the receptacle variegated, 

 with a-d dots: it has no st\le, but instead of it 

 a stigma like a bladder : the capsule is more flattevl 

 at top, the surface a little wrinkled, and as broad 

 as long : the seeds half black. It is a native of 

 Austria, Sec, flowering in Mav and .iune. 



The fourth species is a shrub about six feet 

 high, with an ash-coloured birk, smooth, and 

 free from tubercles : the branches are round, and 

 a little compressed at their extremities : the 

 leaves oblong-huiceolate, smooth on both sides, 

 veiny on the back, and stand opposite; arc verv 

 finely serrated on the ccigcs, where thev are of 

 a purple tinge, as arc also the foot-stalks : all 

 the Howers (which are dark purple) arc con- 

 stantly tctrandrous. It is a native of the north- 

 ei'n parts of Asia. 



