406 pentandria monogynia. Euonymus. 



have specimens gathered on the Sewalik mountains by my friend Di\ 

 Govan, at an elevation of from three to five thousand feet, and a' 

 Shreenwgjjr by the plant collectors of the Hon. Company's botanic 

 garden. 



A branchy tree, growing to the height of twenty feet. Stem as 

 thick as a man's arm, or thicker, covered with grey bark. Bran* 

 ches smooth, long, slender; the outer ones pendulous, opposite, some- 

 times dichotomous ; young shoots slightjy compressed. — Leaves op- 

 posite, spreading, oblong, sharply serrulate, long-acuminate, acuie 

 at the base, from four to six inches long, perfectly smooth, shining 

 above; they have often while young a shining brown colour. Petiol 

 ■very short. Stipules consisting, as in the first species, of minute op- 

 posite scales, from which issue one or two transparent, subulate, 

 branchy hairs. — Peduncles axillary, opposite, crowded and pauicled 

 en the recent shoots, loose, somewhat shorter than the leaves, two 

 or three tunes dichotomous, bearing several small, white, tetandrous, 

 rarefy pentandrous^oaws; those from the bifurcations longer pe- 

 direlied than the rest.— Bractes opposite, acuminate, ciliate, cadu- 

 cous. — Pedicels angular, slightly ciavate — Calyciue lacuna rounded^ 

 ciliate. Petals mostly four, orbicular, ciliate, twice as long as the 

 calyx, inserted by abroad basis. — Stamina very short. Ovary semi- 

 immersed, pyramidal, four-celled ; each cell containing two sub-pen- 

 dulous ovula. — Capsule depressed, divided toward its axis into four 

 or five vertical, sub-ascending, oval, obtuse, unequal wings or lobes. 



Obs. Notwithstanding some discrepancies between Kaempfer's 

 figure and Thuuberg's description I am strongly inclined to Consider 

 tins tree as the genuine IL.japonica ; the more so, as I take that, which 

 thelast mentioned author mentions as europata, to be the same as Rox- 

 burgh's atropurpurea. — Should I be mistaken in this supposition, the 

 species before us might with propriety be called pendula, its outer 

 branches hanging down in a very elegant maimer. — N. W. 



6. E. tingens, Wall. 



Arboreous, erect. Leaves thick and leathery, ovate o lanceolate, 



