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conspicuous slender-stalked axillary flowers; and depressed 3- 
lobed capsules with six 3-sided pale seeds. 
Leaves elliptical, glabrescent. A. phyllanthoides. 
SECURINEGA, 
Deciduous small shrubs with slender somewhat angled 
twigs; relatively large rounded or angular continuous white 
pith; alternate small raised crescent-shaped leaf-scars with a 
single bundle trace; no stipule scars; sessile ovoid buds with 
several exposed scales; subelliptical slender-petioled leaves; small 
imperfect apetalous flowers, clustered in the axils; and small 3- 
lobed few-seeded capsules. 
Leaves acute at both ends, entire, pale beneath.  S. ramiflora. 
Family BUXACEAF. Box Family. 
A rather small family producing the boxwood formerly much 
used in wood-engraving, but otherwise of little use. The box 
is the most highly esteemed plant for clipped evergreen hedges 
where it endures the climate, and, in tubs, often takes the place 
of laurel for formal specimens. 
Buxus. Box Tree. 
Evergreen shrubs or small trees with hard close-grained 
wood; slender 4-sided branches; small roundish homogeneous 
pith; opposite small crescent-shaped decurrent leaf-scars with 
I transverse bundle-trace; multiple buds with several loose 
scales; ovate to obovate sessile small entire leaves; small 
-monoecious apetalous nearly sessile flowers in axillary clusters; 
and small 3-valved capsules. 
1. Leaves broadest at or below the middle: twigs pubescent. 2. 
Leaves broadest above the middle: twigs glabrous. 5. 
Leaves green. 3. 
Leaves variegated. 4. 
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3. Leaves not glaucous, B. sempervirens 
Leaves glaucous beneath. B. sempervirens glauca. 
4. Leaves white-bordered. B. sempervirens argentea. 
Leaves vellow-bordered. B. sempervirens marginata. 
Leaves yellow. B. sempervirens aurea. 
