XX. celastraYe^e : uo'nymus. 



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Erect. Leaves oval or elliptical lanceolate, the uppermost often slightly fal- 

 cate, inostl)' acuminate, acute or obtuse (rarely subcordate) at the base. ( Tor. 

 and Grai/, var. a.) Branches slentler, green. Leaves 1 in. to 2 in. long, cori- 

 aceous, nearly evergreen in the southern spates. Seeds smaller than in E. 

 atropurpiireus. The scarlet fruits, according to Pursh, resemble, at a dis- 

 tance, those of yl'rbutus IPnedo. They form a great ornament, he says, to 

 this almost evergreen shrub, and have given rise, in America, to its common 

 name, the burning bush. Of easy culture in moist soil, and a shady situation. 

 Cuttinirs or seeds. 



1 ^ 1. E. Hamiltona^^A'TO Wall. Hamilton's Euonyrcus, or Spindle Tree. 



Identification. Wall. Fl. Ind., 2. p. 403. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 4. 



Synonyme. E. atropurpiireus Wall. Fl. Ind. 2. p. 402. 



Engraving. Out fig. 209., from a vigorous plant in the Ilort. Soc. Garden. 



Spec. Char., 4"c. Branches smooth, 

 terete. Leaves lanceolate, finely 

 serrated. Peduncles dichotomous, 

 6-flowered. Flowers tetrandrous. 

 Petals 4, lanceolate cordate. Ovary 

 4-lobed, 4-celled, each cell con- 

 taining 2 ovules. (Don's Mill.) A 

 low tree or shrub. Nepal. Height 

 10 ft. to 20 ft. Introduced in 1825. 

 Flowers yellowish gref ii ; June 

 and July. Fruit ? purple ; ripe in 

 ? October. Decaying leaves and 

 naked young w'ood green. 



A free-growing species, with an 

 erect stem ; the young shoots green ; 

 the leaves large ; bark of the older 

 shoots white. Left to itself, as a 

 standard, it forms a dense fastigiate 

 bush, with numerous suckers; but, 

 trained to a single stem, it would 

 doubtless form a handsome small 

 tree. A plant agamst the wall, in 

 the Horticultural Society's Garden, 

 flowers freely every year ; but has 

 not yet ripened fruit. The plant in 

 the open garden was killed to the ground by the winter of 18.37-8, but sprang 



up again with vigour. In the Liverpool Botanic Garden it 



was not injured. 



Other Species of 'Euonymus. IL. Japonicus Thunb. (our 

 Jig. 210.), and ^. japonicus Jolds variegdtis, E. grzmwiaefolius 

 Roxb., and some other species, are in London gardens ; but 

 they can only be considered as half-hardy. In the Canter- 

 bury Nursery, E. j. foliis variegatis has been found hardier 

 than the species. In the Horticultural Society's Garden, 

 E. japonicus, trained against a wall, was but little injured 

 by the winter of 1837-8. The following species, shortly de- 

 scribed in our first edition, Mr. Don considers as Ukely to 

 prove "truly hardy;" some of them are introduced, and are 

 in green-houses : E. grossus Wall., E. micranthus D. J)on^ 

 E. Iiicidus D.Don, . echinatus Wall., E. tingens Wall., 

 E. glaber Ro.rb., E. nmbriatus Wall., E. indicus Het/ne, E. 

 vagans Wall., E. subtrifldrus Blume, E. Thunbergiunut 

 Blumc, E. pendulus Wall, and E. frlgidus Wall. 



209. Budnymus Hamiltonidi nu#. 



210. . japonicus. 



