Euonymw. pentandria monogynia. 



40? 



serrulate, rugose above. Cahjcine laciirae persistent. Petah vein* 

 ed, furnished with a short claw. Capsule rounded, five-cornered. 

 Newar, Kasoori. 



I liave only found it on the summit of Sheopore where it blos- 

 soms in April, and ripens its capsules in September. Dr. Govan 

 lias found it on the Sewalik mountains, and Kamroop on those of 

 Shreentfgttr. 



A branchy tree, from sixteen to twenty feet high , with a trunk 

 as thick as a man's thigh, covered with ash. grey bark, spotted with 

 numerous large, spungv, ochre-coloured tubercles. The wood is like 

 that of the first species. — Branchlets rather ,-hort and thick, round, 

 but marked with four equidistant elevated lines ; new shoots ob- 

 scurely four-cornered. Both the flower-buds and the branch-buds 

 consist of imbricated, lanceolate scales, fringed with capillary fibres, 

 surrounding the tender branchlets, and here and there interspersed 

 among the peduncles. — Leaves approximate, sub-decussate, from 

 ovate to lanceolate, two or three inches long, sharply senulate, acute 

 a* b ah ends, of a firm, leathery texture; daik-green and lucid, 

 somewhat rugose above ; very pale underneath, obscurely reticulate.— 

 Tetiul short. Peduncles short, flattened, twice or thrice dichoto? 

 inous, disposed in numerous, approximate pairs on the young shoots, 

 with opposite linear fringed bractlets at each sub-division. — Flowers 

 large, yellowish-green, those in the dichotomies supported on a 

 longer pedicel than the rest. — Lacinite of the calyx ovate, obtuse, 

 ciliate. — Petah four or five, large, yellowish, most beautifully marked 

 with purplish veins, ovate, furnished with a short claw. — Stamina 

 four or five. — Capsule as large as a gooseberry, sharply four or five- 

 cornered, retuse with a subulate point, supported by the lobed calyx ; 

 five-seeded. 



Obs. The Nipalese employ the yellow bark for the purpose of 

 marking the forehead with the idolatrous symbol, commonly called 

 Tika.—N.W. 



