XX. CELASTRA^CEiE : IJUo'nYMUS. 



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202. Budnymos latlfbllus. 



from its broad shining leaves, and its large red pendulous fruits, with orange- 

 coloured seeds, which, when the capsules open, are suspended from the cells 

 somewhat in the manner that the seeds of the magnolias hang from then- 

 strobiles. Even the wood of this species, during winter, is much handsomer 

 than that of any other, the branches being regularly divaricate, with a clean 

 bark, of a reddish green, and with long pointed dark brown buds ; by which 

 alone this species may be distinguished from all the others. Unfortunately 

 for this species, it is generally treated as a shrub, and crowded among other 

 shrubs or trees ; so that it is never allowed a chance of attaining either its 

 full size or its proper shape. 



j 4. E. NA^NUS Bieb. The dwarf Euonymus, oi- Spindle Tree. 



Identification. C. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Suppl., p. 160 ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 4. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 4. 



Synonyme. E. caucasicum Lodd. 



Engraving. Owe fig. 203. from Messrs. Loddiges's plant. 



Spec. Char., 8fc. Branches smooth, somewhat herbaceous. Leaves lanceolate, 

 entire, nearly opposite. Flowers 4-cleft, from 1 to 3 on a peduncle. {Dec. 

 Prod.) A trailing undershrub, with the aspect of the widow wail (Cneorum 

 tricoccum). Northern Cau- 

 casus. Height 1 ft. Intro- 

 duced in 1830. Flowers 

 greenish white ; July and Au- 

 gust. Fruit ? ; ripe ?. Shoots 

 slender, recumbent, and with 

 the leaves of a deep green. 



A very neat little plant, apparently quite hardy, and well adapted for rock- 

 work. 



'i ^ o. E. atropurpu'reus Jacq. The dark-purple;/?ow6'?rrf Euonymus, or 



Spindle Tree. 



Identification. Jacq. Hort. Vind., 2. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 4. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 5. ; Tor. and Gray, 



l.p. 257. 

 Synonymes. E. caroliniensis Marsh. Arb. Amer. No. 1. ; and, probably, E. latilblius Marsh. Arb. 



Amer. No. 2. ; Burning Bush, Ainer. 

 Engravings. Jacq. Hort. Vind,, 2. t. 120. ; Schmidt Arb., t. 73. ; and our;?^. 204. 



Sl)ec. Char., Sic. Branches smooth. Leaves stalked, lanceolate, serrated. 



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203. u(5nymus n&niig. 



