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AUCUBA. SPINDLE TREE 



© Tvdgs more or less A-angular, oicing to as 

 many slender ridges running doicn the in- 

 ternodes, olive-green to brownish; branches 

 grey-broivn or reddish, icith 4 corky ridges. 

 Leaves oblong acuie. Flowers small, greenish. 

 Fruit 4t-angidar, mth orange aril to the 

 seeds. 



Fig. 121. Aucubajaponica, Aucuba. .-1, shoot bearing male flowers ; Z>, 

 a male flower magnified; C, an inflorescence of female flowers ; I), a female 

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



Euunymus 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- 



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



in their setting. 



® ® Tidgs and branches not A-angidar or 

 ridged; leaves not oblong-acute. Flowei-s 



