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Erect. Leaves oval or elliptical lanceolate, the uppermost often slightly fal- 
cate, mostly acuminate, acute or obtuse (rarely subcordate) at the base. (Jor. 
and Gray, vat.a.) Branches slender, green. Leaves 1 in. to 2in. long, cori- 
aceous, nearly evergreen in the southern siates. Seeds smaller than in Z. 
atropurptreus. The scarlet fruits, according to Pursh, resemble, at a dis- 
tance, those of A’rbutus U‘nedo. They form a great ornament, he says, to 
this almost evergreen shrub, and have given rise, in America, to its common 
name, the burning bush. Of easy culture in moist soil, and a shady situation. 
Cuttings or seeds. 
¥ & 7. E. Hamittonit‘nus Wall, Hamilton’s Euonyrus, or Spindle Tree. 
Identification. Wall. Fl. Ind., 2. p. 403.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 4. 
Synonyme. E. atropurpireus Wall. Fl. Ind. 2. p. 402. 
Engraving. Our fig. 209., from a vigorous plant in the Hort. Soc. Garden. 
Spec. Char., §c. Branches smooth, 
terete. Leaves lanceolate, finely 
serrated. Peduncles dichotomous, 
6-flowered. Flowers tetrandrous. 
Petals 4, lanceolate cordate. Ovary 
4-lobed, 4-celled, each cell con- 
taining 2 ovules. (Don’s Mill.) A 
low tree or shrub. Nepal. Height 
10 ft. to 20 ft. Introduced in 1825. 
Flowers yellowish green; June 
and July. Fruit ? purple; ripe in 
? October. Decaying leaves and 
naked young wood green. 
A free-growing* species, With an 
erect stem ; the young shoots green ; 
the leaves large; bark of the older 
shoots white. Left to itself, as a, 
standard, it forms a dense fastigiate 
bush, with numerous suckers; but, 
trained to a single stem, it would 
doubtless form a handsome small 
tree. A plant agamst the wall, in 
the Horticultural Society’s Garden, 
flowers freely every year; but has 
not yet ripened. fruit. The plant in- 209. Buonymus Hamiltonidnus. 
the open garden was killed to the ground by the winter of 1837-8, but sprang 
up again with vigour. In the Liverpool Botanic Garden it 
was not injured. 
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Other Species of Euénymus. — E. japénicus Thunb. (our 
Jig. 210.), and E. japénicus foliis variegatis, E. gurcinizefolius 
Roxb., and some other species, are in London gardens ; but 
they can only be considered as half-hardy. In the Canter- 
bury Nursery, EZ. j. foliis variegatis has been found hardier 
than the species. “In the Horticultural Society’s Garden, 
E. japénicus, trained against a wall, was but little injured 
by the winter of 1837-8. The following species, shortiy de- 
scribed in our first edition, Mr. Don ‘considers as likely to 
prove “truly hardy ;” some of them are introduced, and are 
in green-houses: .gréssus Wall, E. micranthus D. Don, 
E. \icidus D. Don, E. echinitus Wall., E. tingens Wall., 
E. glaber Rozb., E. fimbriatus Wall, E. indicus Heyne, E. 
vagans Wall, E. subtriflorus Blume, E, Thunbergidnus: 
210. B.japénics. = Blume, E. péndulus Wall., and E. frigidus Wall, 
