402 PENTANDRIA monogynia. Euonyrnus. 



flowers, resembling those of the above mentioned species. Capsule 

 round, yellow, crowned with a long cylindric style, which is teimi° 

 nated by the recurved, tri-lobed, three-furrowed stigma. — N. W. 



EUONYMUS, Schreb. gen- N. 373. 



Corol from four- to five-petulled. Germ from two- to five-celled, 

 cells two-seeded, attachment inferior. Capsule superior, three or four- 

 celled, three or four-valved. Seeds calyptred. Embryo erect, and, 

 furnished with a perisperm, 



1. "E. atropurpurea, Wi lid. spec. i. 1132. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves opposite, lanceolar, smooth, serrulate. 

 Peduncles few-flowered ; flowers tetrandrous. 



Found by Dr. Buchanan in Nipal from whence he sent seeds to 

 this garden, wherein eight years the plants are four or five feet hi<di, 

 thin of branches ; and now beginning to blossom in March. 



Trunk erect. Bark smooth, and ash-coloured. Branchlets spread- 

 ing, round, and smooth. — Leaves opposite, short-petioied, lanceolar, 

 smooth on both sides, very finely serrulate, from four to six inches 

 long, by one and a half broad. — Stipules; while the shoots are quite 

 tender a small soft bristle or two occupy their place. — Peduncles be- 

 low the leaves, opposite, expanding, dichotomous, each division three- 

 flowered, with generally one in the fork. — Flowers pedicelled, small, 

 greenish white. — Calyx four-leaved; leaflets round, concave and 

 smooth. — Petals tour, cordate, lanceolate, expanding ; margins revo- 

 lute, white, and smooth.— Nectary a deep green, four-lobed, fleshy 

 body surrounding the base of the germ.— Filaments four, rather longer 

 than the pistillum, inserted on the four lobes of the nectary. An- 

 thers two-lobed, dark brown.— Germ superior, four-lobed, four-cel- 

 led, with two ovula in each, attached to the middle of the axis- Style 

 four-sided. Stigma obtuse. 



