546 EURYA EVODIA 



quite smooth (like the twigs), shortly stalked. Flowers unisexual, very 

 small and inconspicuous, white, produced singly or in twos or threes 

 from the axils of the leaves ; each flower J in. across on a stalk about as 

 long. Fruit black, and as large as a peppercorn. 



At Kew this little shrub is hardy when once thoroughly established, 

 but is sometimes injured by severe frost when young. It is easily 

 increased by cuttings. What is considered by botanists to be the same 

 species is found not only in China and Japan, but in the mountains of 

 N. and S. India, Ceylon, the Malay Archipelago, even as far east as Fiji. 

 In these places, even in Japan, it sometimes becomes a small tree 30 ft. 

 high, but the form cultivated in Britain is quite a dwarf and slow-growing 

 bush, and is perhaps the most northerly and hardiest form. It is 7 ft. 

 high at Kilmacurragh, Co. Wicklow. It is evidently the plant distin- 

 guished as E. PUSILLA by Siebold, who gave several forms of this Eurya 

 specific rank. It is an interesting ally of the tea plant, and a neat little 

 evergreen. Distinguished from Cleyera by its dioecious flowers. 



EUSC APHIS STAPHYLEOIDES, Siebold. SAPINDACE^E. 



A deciduous bush up to 12 ft. high, with stout, pithy branchlets and 

 prominent buds; twigs smooth. Leaves 6 to 10 ins. long, opposite, 

 consisting usually of seven or nine leaflets. Leaflets opposite, .ovate, 

 2 \ to 4 ins. long, long-pointed, shallowly toothed, smooth except for a 

 little down near the base of the midrib. Panicle terminal, branching, 

 4 to 9 ins. long, carrying numerous yellowish white flowers, each about 

 \ in. across. Fruit consisting of three somewhat boat-shaped, spreading, 

 rosy pink pods, \ in. long ; seeds black. 



Native of China, Corea, and Japan. As the specific name implies, 

 this shrub is not only closely related to the bladder-nuts (Staphylea), it 

 also bears much resemblance to them. It differs in the larger number of 

 leaflets, in the smaller individual flowers, and in the smaller, differently 

 shaped fruit. Unfortunately it is not very hardy, and can only be grown 

 outside permanently in the mildest localities. 



EVODIA. RUTACE,E. 



A genus of unarmed trees and shrubs widely spread over Eastern 

 Asia, and extending to Australia and Madagascar. The only hardy 

 species in cultivation are a few deciduous ones which have recently 

 been introduced from China by Wilson, and one from Corea. They are 

 small trees of the same type as Phellodendron, sometimes aromatic. 

 Young shoots very pithy, marked with lenticels, axillary buds exposed. 

 Leaves opposite, pinnate. Flowers borne in broad flattish corymbs 

 terminating the shoots of the year, often unisexual, small ; sepals, petals, 

 and stamens four or five in number. Fruit a capsule of four or five 

 carpels which split from the top, revealing shining black seeds the size 

 of gun-shot. 



Among cultivated trees these new Evodias most closely resemble 



