540 EUONYMUS 



dark green. Like many shrubs with this type of variegation, it is very apt to 

 revert to the green type. 



Var. LATIFOLIUS VARIEGATUS. Leaves broadly oval, with a wide margin 

 of white. 



Var. MACROPHYLLUS, Siebold (E. robustus, Hort^). Leaves green, oval, 

 2^ to 3 ins. long. 



Var. MICROPHYLLUS, Siebold. A very distinct, dwarf, small-leaved form, 

 i to 3 ft. high, with quite erect branches ; leaves dark green, oval-lanceolate, 

 \ to i in. long, \ to -J- in. wide. More tender than the type. 



Var. OVATUS AUREUS. '-Perhaps the best golden variegated form. Leaves 

 oval or ovate, with a broad margin of rich yellow. 



There are numerous other forms slightly different Yrom the above. 

 E. japonicus and all its varieties need a soil of moderate richness only ; they 

 are all easily rooted from cuttings. 



E. LATIFOLIUS, Miller. 



A deciduous shrub or small tree, 10 ft. or more high, with a spreading, 

 loose head of branches ; young shoots angled and, like the remainder of the 

 plant, free from down. Leaves oval, oblong or obovate, 3 to 5 ins. long, 

 \\ to 2^ ins. wide, rounded or wedge-shaped at the base, pointed, very finely 

 and evenly toothed ; stalk about j in. long. Flowers greenish, about $ in. 

 across, the parts normally five ; produced in early May, seven to twelve 

 together, on very slender-stalked cymes 2 to 3 ins. long. Fruits pendulous, 

 f in. across before bursting, rich rosy red, with five, sometimes four, winged 

 lobes ; seed-coat orange-aoloured. 



Native of Europe ; introduced in 1730. Excepting the native E. europaeus, 

 this is the most ornamental of all the genus in our gardens ; its individual 

 fruit is much larger and more striking than that of the common spindle-tree, 

 but is not born%in such profusion. Grown as a small tree in rich deep soil, 

 it will reach 20 ft. in height, and such a specimen, hung jwith its long-stalked 

 fruit in September, is one of the most beautiful objects of liutumn. 



\ 

 E. NAN US, Bieberstein. 



A low, deciduous, or partially evergreen shrub, of thin, spreading or 

 procumbent habit, growing i to 3 ft. high ; its young branches long and 

 slender, smooth, but angled. Leaves alternate or opposite, linear or narrow- 

 oblong ; | to i ins. long, jW to j% in. wide ; tapered at the base, blunt or 

 pointed at the apex ; margins toothed or entire, decurved, dark dull green, 

 smooth on both surfaces; stalk ^ in. long. Flowers inconspicuous, brown- 

 purple, in. across, four-parted, one to three on a very slender stalk i to 

 i j ins. long. Fruit four-lobed, pink ; outer coat (arillus) of the seed orange- 

 coloured, inner one brown. 



Native of the Caucasus, eastward to China ; introduced in 1830. This 

 species, so distinct from all others in cultivation in its narrow, rosemary- 

 likfe, often alternate leaves, is an interesting plant, but of no great merit as 

 an ornament. It does not bear its fruit regularly or freely in this country. 



Var. KOOPMANNI, Beissner. A form of sturdier habit and broader leaves, 

 often over J in. wide, not decurved at the margin. Found by Koopmann on 

 the Thian-shan and Altai mountains. 



E. OBOVATUS, Nuttall. CREEPING SPINDLE-TREE. 



A deciduous shrub of usually trailing habit, rarely more than i ft. above 

 the ground, not downy in any part. Leaves dull green, obovate, tapered at 



