FIG : BOX 



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Fig. 96. Fig, Ficus Carica. 1, flowering shoot; 2, female, and 3, 

 male flower enlarged; 4, the fig in section, reduced, p. 270 (Wo). 



(ft) Flowers not enclosed in the floral axis, but 

 in small clusters in the axils of ordinary 

 leaves ; each cluster with one terminal $ 

 flower, surrounded by several </ flowers. 

 Evergreen shrub with hard glossy entire 

 leaves. 



Buxus sempervirens, L. Box (Fig. 97). Evergreen, 

 glabrous shrub with small leathery leaves and angular 

 shoots. 



Floral formula </ P 4 A 4 ', the stamens opposite the 

 perianth-segments, and a rudimentary ovary present ; 

 $ P 4 _i2 G (3) ; the styles persistent on the valves of the 

 globoid capsule; seeds black, 1 2 in each cell, flipped 

 out by the compression of the hard endocarp. Monoecious, 

 with exposed honey, entomophilous and occasionally 

 anemophilous. 



