Euonymus* PEntan&rja monogynia, 403 



Obs. by IS. IV. 



This I have found in all paits of the valley of Nipal which I. 

 have visited, as well as on the neighbouring mountains, blossoming 

 during the rains, and ripening its fruit towards the close of the year. 

 1 have also had it from Shfe'enugttr, and Swrmoor. It is a branchy 

 slender tree, growing to the height of from sixteen to twenty feet. 

 The wood is beautifully white and compact. — Capsules yellow, 

 smooth, turbinate, four-Iobed, but not four-winged ; ,obes strongly 

 projecting, divided by an equal number of furrows, the vertex crown- 

 ed by the short vestige of the style, base surround d, as in all the 

 other species, by an annular rudiment of the calyx; it 13 rather small- 

 er than the fruit of E. europaea, Gaertn. Carp. ii. 149. t. 113, but 

 agreeing with it in internal structure. — I suspect that the tree is dif- 

 ferent both from that species, and from E. atropurpurea of Jacquin, 

 though not perhaps from europaea, Thunb. jap. 101 ; and propose 

 calling it E. tlamiltoniana, after its most worthy discoverer. — N. Wi 



2. E. glabra, R. 



Aiboreous. Leaves opposite, oblong, smooth, with the anterior 

 margin serrate. Peduncles axillary and lateral, two or three times di- 

 chotomous, with a single flower in each fork \Jlowers pentandrous. 



A small tree, a native of Chittagong, where it flowers in May. 



3. E. garcinifolia, R. 



Sub-arboreous. Leaves opposite, lanceolar, entire, smooth- Pe- 

 duncles between the leaves, three-flowered. Capsule two-valved, one- 

 seeded. 



Moii the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is indigenous; grow- 

 ing to the size of a small upright tree ; flowers and ripe seed were 

 found on the same trees in the month of January 1812, but whether 

 it is in constant flower and fruit the whole year round, I cannot say. 



Branchlets opposite, round, and covered with smooth brown 

 bark.— Lea ves opposite, short-petioled, lanceoiar, eutire, smooth on 



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