412 FENTANWBIA M0N0GYNJA. EuonyrtlUS* 



oblong, black seeds, which are almost entirely enveloped iu a scarlet 

 fleshy arillus. 



Obs. This and the following are exceedingly alike in the inflores- 

 cence and leaves; but the fruit differs widely. The disposition of 

 the nerves of the leaves seems also to differ ; in the species just des- 

 cribed ihey are nearly transversal, parallel, and uniting under the 

 margins in reticulate arches, and more visible on the upper sur- 

 face; in E. vagans they are very oblique, andvery obscurely reticu» 

 late towards the periphery. — I have never observed the last meuti» 

 oned species with a radicant stem or branches. — N. W. 



] 3 E. vagans, Wall. 



C - nbing, shrubbj. "Leaves ovate-lanceolate, serrate. Tedun* 

 cies filiform, axillary, dichotomous. Capsules globular, naked, un- 

 armed 



ic inhabits the same p'aces as the last described, and produces 

 flowers and fruit a r similar seasons of the year. I have a. so found 

 it in fiuit on Cheesapani, in December. 



A most extensive ramb ing and climbing shrub, with stem, 

 branches, leaves and flowers exactly like those of the preceding 

 species except in the points adverted to in the concluding observa- 

 tion. — The capsule smooth, unarmed, globular, four celled, four- 

 seeded ; seeds large, hidden within a fleshy scarlet arillus. 



Obs. Gaertner has very justly observed in his matchless carpo- 

 3ogy, ii, 86, that there exists no generic difference between Celas- 

 trus and Euonymus, and I confess, that the two just described may 



perhaps with equal justice be placed under the founer <*enus The 



wood of E. vagans is compact and fine grained. — 1 have brought 

 with me a piece of the stem of a most gigantic climber belonging 

 either to this species or very nearly allied to it, measuring full fif- 

 teen inches in circumference, marked with many parallel furrows 

 and covered with spungy bark, grey on the surface and yellow with- 

 in ; the wood brown, soft, and perforated with small tubular cells 

 like a ratan.— I<J. W. 



