202 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Euowymus. 



1. Euonymus, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs, usually glabrous, sometimes climbing by 

 means of stem rootlets. Leaves opposite ; stipules deciduous. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, in axillary dichasioid cymes. Calyx 

 4-5-lobed, spreading or recurved, the lobes imbricate. Petals 

 4-5, imbricate. Stamens as many as the petals and alternate 

 with them, inserted on the disk ; filaments short ; anthers broad, 

 2-celled. Disk large, fleshy, 4-5-lobed. Ovary sunk in the disk, 

 3-5-celled; style short, thick; stigma 3-5-lobed; ovules 2 in 

 each cell. Fruit a 3-5-celled loculicidal capsule, lobed angled or 

 winged, sometimes echinate; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds enclosed 

 in a fleshy aril ; testa thick ; albumen copious, oily ; cotyledons 

 broad, foliaceous ; radicle inferior. 



Cymes 1-3-flowered, peduncles and pedicels stout; flowers '4-'5 in. 

 in diam., petals fimbriate; leaves entire; capsule-valves deeply 



obcordate 1. indicus. 



Cymes 3-7- (rarely 9-) flowered, peduncles and pedicels moderately 

 stotit ; flowers - 3-'4 in. in diam. ; petals not fimbriate but sometimes 

 crispate ; leaves crenulate towards the apex ; capsule-valves slightly 



obcordate 2. crenulatus. 



Cymes usually more than 7 -flowered, peduncles and pedicels slender; 

 flowers usually under 3 in. in diam. ; petals entire : 



Leaves entire or nearly so ; capsule-valves more or less obcordate, 

 elongate : 



Branchlets terete ; flowers *2 in. in diam. ; leaves thin, oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, sometimes obscurely crenate 



3. dichotomus. 



Branchlets quadrangular ; flowers '3 in. in diam. ; leaves thick, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, thickened on the margin, quite entire 



4. angulatus. 

 Leaves prominently toothed ; branchlets terete : 



Leaves lanceolate, prominently serrate, acuminate; capsule 



globose 5. serratifolius. 



Leaves elliptic, crenate-serrate, acute 6. paniculatus. 



1. EUONYMUS INDICUS, Heyne ex Wall.; F. B. I. i. 608; W. & A. 

 160. E. Goughii, Wt. Ic. t. 215. 



W. Ghats, in S. Canara, Coorg, Wynaad and W. Nilgiris 

 at 3,000 ft., rarely higher. 

 A small tree of the evergreen forests with reddish flowers. 



