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GENUS V. EUONYMUS. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Eu, good, and Onoma, aname, meaning well- 
named. 
Gen. Cuar. Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing by means of 
roots from the stems: leaves opposite: peduncles axillary: calyx 
4-5-parted: petals 4-5, sessile: disk orbicular: stamens 4-5, in- 
serted between the margin of the disk and the ovary: anthers with 
a thick connectivum at the back: ovary immersed, with as many 
cells as petals: style short and thick: stigmas united, obtuse or 
_lobed: capsules 4—5-celled, 4-5-valved: seeds 1-2 in each cell. 
(1) E. picroromus. (Heyne.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 160.—Roxb. fl. Ind. (Ed. Wall.) 
Il. p, 410. . 
Syn. E. Indicus, Heyne. W. & A. prod. 1. c. 
Spec. Cuar. Leaves coriaceous, from oblong-lanceolate ta 
ovate-lanceolate, tapering at both ends, blunt at the point, quite 
entire: peduncles solitary or 2-3-together, few-flowered, from 
simple to 2-3-dichotomous, much shorter than the leaves: petals. 
5, orbicular: style scarcely any: stigma blunt: unripe: capsule 
club-shaped, tapering downwards, elongated, its vertex 5-lobed, 
Courtallum and Colemala. 
(2) E. crenuratus. (J¥all.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 161. 
Engrav. Wight’s Spicil. I. t. 45. 
Spec. Cuan. Tree; leaves elliptical, obtuse, crenulate-serrated 
towards the apex, coriaceous: peduncles solitary, shorter than the 
leaves, 1-2-dichotomous, few-flowered : petals 5-6, orbicular: sta- 
mens very short: margin of the disk free: stigma blunt, somewhat 
imbricated : capsules 5-celled, lobed at the apex: seed solitary in - 
each cell: arjl small; flowers dull-purple. 
Neilgherries. 
(3) E. Govenn. (R. W.) 
Ident. Wight’s Ill. I. p. 178. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 615. 
Spec. Cuar. Shrubby: leaves somewhat 3$-nerved, quite en- 
tire, oblong-ovate, acute at both ends: peduncles axillary, short, . 
1-3-flowered: petals 5, orbicular, fringed: stamens inserted on the 
disk : ovary immersed, 5-celled. : 
Neilgherries. Mangellee Ghaut, 
