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AUCUBA. SPINDLE TREE 



Twigs more or less k-angular, owing to as 

 many slender ridges running doivn the in- 

 ternodeSj olive-green to brownish; branches 

 grey -brown or reddish, with 4 corky ridges. 

 Leaves oblong acute. Flowers small, greenish. 

 Fruit ^-angular, with orange aril to the 

 seeds. 



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Fig. 121. Aucubajaponica, Aucuba. A, shoot bearing male flowers ; B, 

 a male flower magnified; (7, an inflorescence of female flowers ; D, a female 

 flower magnified; E, ovary, and F, fruit in longitudinal section (E and P). 



Euonymus europceus, L. Spindle Tree (Fig. 120). A 

 stiffly branched shrub or nearly a tree up to 10 15 feet in 

 height. Dark green, with the rounded 4-ridged branches 

 apt to be bent. The curious quadrilateral capsules re- 

 semble a priest's cap, and the orange seeds gleam brightly 

 in their setting. 



Twigs and branches not ^-angular or 

 ridged; leaves not oblong-acute. Flowers 



