a small branch in fruit, which had been communicated by 
the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Com¬ 
pany, we have been enabled to ascertain the justness of 
Professor Hooker’s expectations, that it would shew the 
plant to be referable to no genus at present published. 
The fruit is a drupe, the size of a small plumb, con¬ 
taining one pendulous seed and the rudiments of an 
ovulum, and an obliterated cell, with two other pendulous 
ovula. The stigmas are represented by Professor Hooker 
to be two; we have found them so in all the cultivated 
specimens we have analysed, and the same structure 
obtains in our wild specimens of both the varieties above 
denned ; this character, which is not of common occurrence 
m Euphorbiaceae, may, therefore, be considered constant, 
and, together with the drupaceous fruit, places the genus 
P e ^ es ^ a hlj from which it differs in the structure 
ol the male and female flowers. The former are so like 
those of the common Box, that, in the absence of fruit, 
there would be little apparent reason to suspect a difference 
rom Buxus, of which genus the narrow-leaved variety of 
this plant has, in a considerable degree, the habit. We 
are hence disposed to think that Mr. Don’s Buxus saligna 
may, at least, be referable to this genus, if it be not the 
very same as our second variety. 
Tricera, to which Dr. Wallich has doubtfully referred 
it, is considered by M. Adrien de Jussieu to be the same 
genus as Buxus; and, whether so or not, differs from this 
genus in the structure both of its fruit and female flowers. 
Our drawing was made in July 1825, at the Nursery of 
Mr. Colvin, to whom the plant had been presented by 
1 rs. airlie. It is a hardy stove or greenhouse plant, and 
more remarkable as a botanical curiosity than as an object 
J. L. 
