Euonymus.] XXIV. CELASTRINEiE. 79 



3. E. pendulus, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey, ii. 406. Sometimes 

 called E. japonicus. Vern. Chopra, pincho, garur, kunJcu, N.W.P. 



Young twigs angular or compressed ; leaves 2-4 in. long, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, coriaceous, glabrous, pale, often cinereous beneath, sharply serrate ; 

 petioles sulcate, less than J in. long; stipules minute, with a few long 

 hairs. Cymes axillary, opposite, with 3-20 flowers, on peduncles 2 in. long, 

 often flat, sulcate, regularly dichotomous, or bearing 3 or more branches. 

 Bracts ovate, lacerate. Flowers tetramerous, rarely pentanierous, J in. 

 across. Calyx-lobes obtuse, fimbriate. Petals whitish, oblong, fimbriate. 

 Stamens nearly as long as petals ; anthers ovate, short. Style short, fili- 

 form. Capsule 3- or 4-lobed, the angles sharp, more or less winged ; seeds 

 enclosed in a thin arillus. 



Locally (nowhere common) in the Himalaya between 2500 and 7500 ft., rarely 

 ascending to 8500 ft., from the Jhelam to Nepal and further east. Fl. in April 

 and May ; the fruit ripens in June and July. A small, elegant tree, to 40 ft. 

 high, with a short straight trunk, 2| ft. girth ; numerous branches ascending 

 and spreading ; the ultimate branchlets drooping, forming an oval crown. Bark 

 of trunk dark grey, brownish, or yellow, scabrous and longitudinally rugose. 

 Young foliage brown and shining ; old, dull grey. 



4. E. tingens, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey, ii. 406. Vern. 

 Kungltu, N.W.P. ; Newar, Kasuri, Nepal. 



Branchlets indistinctly 4-sided; scales of buds lanceolate, fimbriate. 

 Leaves 1-2 in. long, glabrous, coriaceous, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtusely 

 serrate or crenate, acute or shortly acuminate, on short petioles, with 

 brown subulate, fimbriate stipules. Cymes axillary, approximate, in 

 pairs at the base of this year's branchlets ; peduncles varying in length, 

 the longest 2 in., with regular dichotomous cymes of 3-7 large flowers J 

 in. across, pentamerous or tetramerous, with linear-lanceolate, fimbriate 

 bracts. Divisions of calyx broadly ovate, irregularly dentate or fimbriate. 

 Petals orbicular, shortly unguiculate, white or yellowish, beautifully marked 

 with dark purple veins. Stamens a little shorter than petals ; anther- cells 

 diverging, attached to a horseshoe-shaped connective. Style subulate, 

 as long as stamens. Capsule 3- 4- or 5-cornered, not winged ; seeds ob- 

 long, with a cup-shaped arillus. 



Himalaya, from 6500-10,000 ft, from the Sutlej to Nepal. Fl. from April- 

 June, the fruit ripening in August and Sept. A small tree, to 20 ft. high, with 

 a short, erect, symmetrical trunk, 2^-3 ft. girth ; few branches, forming a small, 

 rounded crown. Bark dark cinereous, or yellowish brown, with numerous yel- 

 low tubercles, and whitish longitudinal cracks and wrinkles, inner substance 

 brown, with fine white fibres. Wood light brown, fine-grained, compact and 

 hard, not porous, with fine indistinct medullary rays. Wallich states that the 

 Nepalese employ the bark for the purpose of marking the forehead. 



E. grandijiorus, Wall. PI. As. rar. t. 254, may possibly be synonymous with 

 this species ; but the figure represents the capsule as ovoid, and does not show 

 the dark veins of petals, and the figure is supported by the description of 

 E. grandijiorus in Fl. Ind., ed. Carey, 404. 



