Euonymits* PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 40.1 



short, furrowed. — Stipules, miuute, withering — Peduncles axillary, 

 opposite, exceedingly slender, filiform, flattened, almost equalling the 

 leaves in length, from three- to six-flowered. — Vedicels divaricate, 

 articulate at the base, where they are furnished with a pair of minute, 

 vanishing bractlets. — Flowers white, inodorous, very large, and showy, 

 spreading, tetrandious, measuring ten lines in diameter, slightly 

 nodding. — Calyx broad, flat, with four short, rounded, ciliate, erect 

 lobes; it is gradually reflected as the flower expands, becoming 

 thick and fleshy, of a dark shining green colour above, and vaulted 

 underneath, in which state it continues under the ripe fruit. — Ye~ 

 tills four, large, white, spreading, orbicular, flat, with cnspate mar- 

 gins. — Stamens short, remote, at first erect, afterwards recurved, 

 sub-immersed in the fleshy bottom of the calvx. Filaments su- 

 bulate, persistent. Anthers erect, ovate, didymous. — Ovary ovate, 

 pyramidal, semi-immersed, shining, four-celled, many-seeded; ovula 

 sub pendulous from the axis. Style short, persistent. Stigma ob- 

 tuse. Capsule nearly globular, slightly four-cornered, of the size 

 of a cherry, supported by the broad, convex, truncate calyx, four-cel- 

 ed, four-valved. Seeds oval, shining black, supported without any 

 wings, and half covered by a brilliant red, minutely lubed, and ver- 

 rucose arillus ; in general each cell contains two, which hang down on 

 a short funicie. 



Obs. This is a very beautiful shrub, both when in flower and when 

 loaded with its yellow pendulous capsules, each of which is furnish- 

 ed with as many as six black, pendulous seeds. — N. W. 



5. JL.japonica, Thunb.jap. 100. — Banks icon. Kaempf.S. 



Branchlets pendulous. Leaves oblong, sharply serrulate, acumi- 

 nate. Corymbs axillary, fascicled, many-flowered, crowded and pa- 

 nicled on the young shoots ; peduncles flattened* Capsule with four 

 hoiizontally spreading, vertical wings. 



ho Kuroggi, Kaempf. amoen. 790, (according to Thunberg.) 



Grows on Sheopore and Chundiugivi in Nipa!, where it com- 

 mences blossoming in April, ripening its fruit in Juue and July. I 



