Euonymus nanus Bieb.

A low, deciduous or partially evergreen shrub of thin, spreading or procumbent habit, growing 1 to 3 ft high; its young branches long and slender, glabrous, angled. Leaves alternate or opposite, or in a terminal whorl, 3⁄4 to 11⁄2 in. long, 1⁄12 to 3⁄16 in. wide, tapered at the base, linear to narrow-oblong, blunt or pointed at the apex, the margins obscurely toothed or entire, glabrous; stalk 1⁄2 in. long. Flowers inconspicuous, brown-purple, 1⁄6 in. across, four-parted, one to three on a very slender stalk 1⁄2 to 11⁄4 in. long. Fruits four-lobed, pink with the outer coat (aril) of the seed orange-coloured; they are about 1⁄2 in. long, scarcely as wide. Bot. Mag., t. 9308.

Native of the Caucasus, eastward to China; introduced in 1830. This species, so distinct from all others in cultivation in its narrow, rosemary-like, often alternate leaves, is an interesting shrub but of no great merit in most districts as it does not bear its fruit regularly or freely.

From the Supplement (Vol. V)

It is probable that many plants of this species in cultivation were raised from seeds collected by Farrer in Kansu and were once known under the horticultural name ‘E. farreri’ (R. Lancaster, The Plantsman, Vol. 4, p. 61 (1982)).