Sarcococca.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEAE. (J. D. Hooker.) 267 
S. PRUNIFORMIS PROPER; leaves lanceolate caudate-acuminate triple-nerved, 
fruit ellipsoid.—Himalaya and Western Ghats. 
Van. brevifolia ; leaves smaller ovate obtusely acuminate usually triple-nerved, 
irira short, male pedicels ebracteolate. S. saligna & brevifolia, Mueller Arg. l. c. 
.— Ceylon. 
Var. zeylanica; leaves usually triple-nerved, male pedicels 4-bracteolate, styles 
sharply recurved, fruit shortly ellipsoid. S. prunifornis, Thwaites Enum. 290 in 
part. $. zeylanica, Baill. Monog. Bux. 52; Muell. Arg. l. c.—Ceylon. 
VaR, Hookeriana; leaves narrower lanceolate or linear-lanceolate usually penni- 
herved, fruit globose. S. Hookeriana, Baill. Monogr. Bux. 53; Muell. l.c. 13. 
Tricera nepalensis, Wall. Cat. 7979 A (in part).—Himalaya (attaining 9000 ft. in 
Sikkim), Affghanistan.—Klotzsch's Lepidopelma, and Mueller’s saligna B, are inter- 
mediate between pruniformis proper and Hookeriana. 
3. BUXUS, Linn. 
Evergreen glabrous shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, penni- 
nérved, quite entire. Flowers in dense very short erect axillary racemes, 
monoecious, bracteate, apetalous. Disk O. MALE rr. Sepals 4in2 series, 
mbricate. Stamens as many and opposite them, free; anthers dorsifixed, 
oblong, at length recurved. Ferm. rr. Sepals 6, 2 outer much smaller, 
imbricate. Ovary 3-celled; styles 3, short, thick, often distant ; ovules 2 
m each cell, raphe dorsal. Capsule ovoid, crowned by the persistent styles, 
loculicidally 3-valved, valves bearing the split styles, endocarp splitting 
away from the coriaceous exocarp. Seeds oblong, testa black shining, 
albumen fleshy ; cotyledons narrow, oblong.—Species about 20, temperate 
and tropical, 
_ B. sempervirens, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 144; leaves oblong 
linear-oblong or lanceolate tip obtuse rounded or retuse, flowers sessile, 
Capsule 3-horned. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 153; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 315; 
edeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 583; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 369. B. Wallichiana, 
Baill, Monogr. Bux. 63; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1.18. B. emar- 
gnata, Herb, Royle. B. sempervirens, var. arborea, Wall. mss. B. longi- 
folia, Jacquem. Journ.—Buxus, Wall. Cat. 7978. 
TrwPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kumaon to Simla, alt. 5-9000 ft.; Bhotan, alt. 
5-9000 ft., Griffith. PANJAB, on the Salt range, &c., Aitchison, Fleming. DISTRIB. 
Westvards to N. Africa and Britain, and northwards in W. Siberia, Turkestan, China 
apan. 
À small much-branched bush or tree; buds and edges of young leaves puberulous. 
aves very variable in form and size, about 1-2 in. long in the Himalayan form ; 
petiole very short. Racemes few-fld., fascicled, terminal flowers female. Sepals 
ODtuse. Stamens far exserted, filaments very stout ; anthers 3 times as long as broad. 
Styles equalling the ovary. Capsule } in. long, ovoid, wrinkled. Seeds black.—The 
distribution is curious, not extending to Nepal or Sikkim, though found in Kumaon 
and Bhotan ; and being absent in N, Asia between W. Siberia and China. . 
va, >È microphylla; dwarf, leaves 1-3 in. elliptic or subspathulate. B. japonica, 
lla microphylla, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1. 20.—Kumaon, on dry rocks, alt. 
,10-12,000 ft., Duthie. 
4. BRIDELIA, Willd. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, quite entire, sometimes with strong 
straight nerves and cross-nervules. Flowers small or minute, 1n axillary or 
Spicate clusters, monoecious or dicecious, bracteate. sessile or very shortly 
Pedicelled. Calyx 5(4~6)-cleft ; lobes valvate. Petals much smaller than 
the calyx-lobes.” Disk broad, of the male pulvinate or adnate to the calyx- 
