EUONYMUS CRENULATUS. (Nat. ord. CelaBtrineso.) 



ElJONYMUS. Linn. — GEN. CHAK. Calyx 4-6-fid, divisions patent or recurved, petals as many inserted below the disk patent entire tooth- 

 sd or fimbriate, stamens the same number inserted on the disk, filaments generally very short, anthers broad didymous, disk fleshy ample 4-5-lobed, ovary 

 immersed in the disk and confluent with it, 3-5 celled, styles short, stigma 3-51obed, ovules 2 (rarely 4 or many) in each cell, capsule 3-5 celled with the 

 same number of lobes or angles and opening loculicidally in as many valves, cells 1-2 seeded, seeds nearly enclosed in a colored usually scarlet arillus, testa 

 chartaceous, albumen fleshy, embryo orthotropal, cotyledons foliaceous, radicle inferior. Trees or shrubs, with opposite leaves, flowers dull reddish or 

 greenish in axillary dichotomous or trichotomous cymes. — Melanocorya, Turcz. Vyenomus, Presl. Walp. Anv. ]. 188. 



-CjUONYMUS CKENULATUS. (Wall.) A small tree, leaves elliptic obtuse crenulate-serrate towards the apex, coriace- 

 ous deep sliiuing green above, 2-2| inches long by \-\\ broad, petioles about 3 lines long, peduncles solitary shorter than the leaves 

 once or twice dichotomous few flowered, flowers 5 or occasionally 6-merous, petals orbicular, stamens very short, authers opening trans- 

 versely, margin of the torus free, style very short, stigma blunt somewhat umbilicated, capsule turbinate 5 celled, lobed at the apex, 

 seed with a small aril. WA. Prod. p. 161. 



A small tree common on the Nilgiris, Pidneys and higher parts of Western ghats of the Madras P residency , the wood is white, very 

 hard and close grained, and answers for wood engraving, and is about the best substitute for Boxwood in this Presidency ; the wood of the other 

 species is very similar. 



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