CELASTRAGEAE. 



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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. (Euony- 



Winter-character references: Evonymus alatus. Shira- 

 sawa, 278, pi. 2. E. atropurpureus. Brendel, 28, 29, 30, pi. 1; 

 Hitchcock (1), 3, f. 4, (3), 9, (4), 34, f. 15. E. europaeus. 

 Bosemann, 65; Fant, 44, f. 48; Schneider, f. 209; Ward, 1:172, 

 f. 85; Willkomm, 51, f. 95; Zuccarini, 12, pi. 7. E. europaeus 

 .Hamilton! anus. Shirasawa, 278, pi. 12. E. latifolius. Schnei- 

 der, f. 195; Willkomm, 11, 52, f. 96; Zuccarini, 10, pi. 6. E. 

 nanus. Schneider, f. 209. E. oxyphyllus. Shirasawa, 277, 

 pi. 12. E. verrucosus. Bosemann, 65; Schneider, f. 209; Will- 

 komm, 52, f. 97; Zuccarini, 11, pi. 6. 



Gibson pictures a very large waahoo tree at p. 499 of his 

 American Forest Trees. 



