Sarcowcca.'] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 267 



S. PKUNIFOBMIS PEOPEE ; leaves lanceolate caudate- acuminate triple-nerved, 

 fruit ellipsoid. Himalaya and Western Ghats. 



VAR. brevifolia ; leaves smaller ovate obtusely acuminate usually triple-nerved, 

 racemes short, male pedicels ebracteolate. S. saligna & brevifolia, Mueller Arq. I. c. 

 12. Ceylon. 



VAE. zeylanica; leaves' usually triple -nerved, male pedicels 4-bracteolate, styles 

 sharply recurved, fruit shortly ellipsoid. S. prunifornis, Thwaites Enum. 290 in 

 part. S. zeylanica, BailL Monog. Bux. 52 ; Muell. Arg. 1. c. Ceylon. 



VAE. HooJceriana ; leaves narrower lanceolate or linear-lanceolate usually penni- 

 nerved, fruit globose. S. Hookeriana, Baill. Monoar. Bux. 53 ; Muell. I. c. 13. 

 Tricera nepalensis, Wall. Cat. 7979 A (in part). Himalaya (attaining 9000 ft. in 

 Sikkim), Affghanistan. Klotzsch's Lepidopelma, and Mueller's saligna j8, are inter- 

 mediate between pruniformis proper and Hookeriana. 



3. BUXUS, Linu. 



Evergreen glabrous shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, penni- 

 uerved, quite entire. Floivers in dense very short erect axillary racemes, 

 monoecious, bracteate, apetalous. Disk 0. MALE FL. Sepals 4 in 2 series, 

 imbricate. Stamens as many and opposite them, free ; anthers dorsifixed, 

 oblong, at length recurved. FEM. FL. Sepals 6, 2 outer much smaller, 

 imbricate. Ovary 3-celled ; styles 3, short, thick, often distant ; ovules 2 

 in each cell, raphe dorsal. Capsule ovoid, crowned by the persistent styles, 

 loculicidally 3-valved, valves bearing the split styles, 1 endocarp splitting 

 away from the coriaceous exocarp. Seeds oblong, testa black shining, 

 albumen fleshy ; cotyledons narrow, oblong. Species about 20, temperate 

 and tropical. 



B. semper virens, Linn.-, Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 144; leaves oblong 

 linear-oblong or lanceolate tip obtuse rounded or retuse, flowers sessile, 

 capsule 3-horned. BeicKb. Ic. FL Germ, t. 153; Benth. FL HonyJc. 315; 

 Ledeb. FL ^Ross. iii. 583 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 369. B. Wallichiana, 

 BailL Monogr. Bux. 63; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1. 18. B. eniar- 

 ginata, Herb. Royle. B. sempervirens, var. arborea, Wall. mss. B. longi- 

 folia, Jacquem. Journ. Buxus, Wall. Cat. 7978. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to Simla, alt. 5-9000 ft.; Bhotan, alt. 

 5-9000 ft., Griffith. PANJAB, on the Salt range, &c., AitcMson, Fleming. .DISTEIB. 

 Westwards to N. Africa and Britain, and northwards in W. Siberia, Turkestan, China 

 and Japan. 



A small much -branched bush or tree; buds and edges of joung leaves puberulous. 

 Leaves very variable in form and size, about 12 in. long in the Himalayan form ; 

 petiole very short. Racemes few-fld., fascicled, terminal flowers female. Sepals 

 obtuse. 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 ; arid being absent in N. Asia between W. Siberia and China. 



VAR. microphylla ; dwarf, leaves |-| in. elliptic or subspathulate. B. japonica, 

 var. microphylla, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1. 20. Kumaon, on dry rocks, alt. 

 11,000-12,000 ft., Duthie. 



4. BRXDEXiXA, Willd. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, quite entire, sometimes with strong 

 straight nerves and cross- uervules. Flowers small or minute, in axillary or 

 spicate clusters, monoecious or dioecious, bracteate. sessile or very shortly 

 pedicelled. Calyx 5(4-6)-cleft ; lobes valvale. Petals much smaller than 

 the calyx-lobes. Disk broad, of the male pulvinate or adnate to the calyx- 



