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each of which supports one flower : the fruit 

 succulent, irregularly shaped, and inclosing a sin- 

 gle nut of a roundish form, commonly obtusely 

 quadrangular ; but sometimes ovate, an inch and 

 half in diameter, fleshy, very sweet, smelling like 

 the rose, covered with a thin shining yellowish 

 skin; and commonly containing one large seed, 

 roundish, and sottish, but not bony : the fruit is 

 very agreeable to the taste, smell and sight, and es- 

 teemed wholesome. Forster describes it as whitish, 

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

 times as big as the fist, but usually much smaller. 

 It is common in the islands in the South Sea. 



The second species rises to the same height, 

 but the leaves are longer and narrower : the flowers 

 terminating, but some come out from 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, 

 &c. flowering from May to July. 



The third species has solitary peduncles: the 

 flowers are white : fruit bright red, soft, slightly 

 grooved, and having a sweet smell. First 

 brought from Goa. 



Culture. — These plants may be propagated by 

 setting the stones of the fruit as soon as procured 

 from the places where they grow naturally, 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 small 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 

 water 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. 



I2UONYMUS, a genus comprising plants of 

 the hardy flowering shrubby kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandria 

 Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Dumosce. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a one- 

 leaved, five-parted, flat perianthium : divisions 

 roundish, concave: the corolla has five petals, 

 ovate, flat, spreading, longer than the calyx: 

 the stamina consist of five subulate filaments, 

 upright, shorter than the corolla, placed on the 

 germ as it were on a receptacle: anthers twin : 

 the pistillum is an acuminate germ: style 

 short, simple: stigma acute: the pericarpiumisa 

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

 nered, five-celled, five-valved: the seeds solitary, 

 ovate, involved in a berried aril. 



The species cultivated are: 1. E. Europceus, 

 Common Spindle-Tree; 2. E. /atifolius,Broad- 

 leayed Spindle-Tree; 3. E. verrucosus, Warted 

 Spindle-Tree; 4. E. atro-purpurei/s, Purple- 

 flowered Spindle-Tree; 5. E. americanus, Ever- 

 green Spindle-Tree. 



The first is a shrub; but if planted singly,. 

 and properly trained, it will rise more than 

 twenty feet high, with a strong woody stem divid- 

 ing into many branches : the leaves are lanceolate, 

 about three inches long, and an inch 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 beginning of June, in small 

 bunches from the side of the stalks on slender 

 peduncles : the petals are whitish, and spread in 

 form of a cross: the fruit ripens in October, 

 when the seed-vessels spread open and expose 

 the seeds, which being of a beautiful red colour- 

 render the appearance of these shrubs very fine. 



The second species rises with a stronger stem 

 than the first, and grows 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 flowers 

 come out from the side of the branches, upon very 

 slender peduncles, two- inches and a half long, 

 branching out into a loose bunch, and the 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 of 

 Austria, &c. 



The third differs from the two former in hav- 

 ing the stem 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 filament : the receptacle variegated, 

 with red dots : it has no style, but instead of it 

 a stigma like a bladder : the capsule is more flatted 

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

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

 Austria, &c, flowering in May and June. 



The fourth species is a shrub about six feet 

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

 free from tubercles : the branches are round, and 

 a little compressed at their extremities : the 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, smooth on both sides, 

 veiny on the back, and stand opposite; are very 

 finely serrated on the edges, where they are of 

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

 the flowers (which are dark purple) are con- 

 stantly tetrandrous. It is a native of the north- 

 ern parts of Asia, 



