Antidesma,] LXIX. EUPHORBIACEiE. 447 







Nepal, Oudh forests (common), Bengal, South India, Ceylon, Burma (in the 

 Eng forest of Dipterocarpus tuberculatus), Indian Archipelago, Hong-Kong. 

 Fl. May, June. Fruit eaten. 



2. A. diandrum, Tulasne. Syn. Stilago diandra, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 

 66 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 759. Vern. AmM, sarshoti, sarslieti, Garhwal ; Dhakki, 

 Gur mussureya, Ban mussureya, Oudh, Gorakhpur. 



A small deciduous tree, branchlets, petioles, and under side of leaves 

 along midrib, with scattered rust - coloured hairs, otherwise glabrous. 

 Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, shortly petiolate, 2-4 in. long, glab- 

 rous, shining, stipules lanceolate. Flowers greenish-yellow, male and 

 female on short pedicels, in the axils of subulate bracteoles, spikes (rac- 

 emes) terminal, solitary, or 2-3 together, slender; male spikes 2-3 in. 

 long, female spikes shorter. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-dentate. Stamens 2-3. 

 Drupes small, of a pleasant acid taste. 



Sal forests of Garhwal, Kamaon, and Oudh. Behar, Bengal, South India, Java. 

 Fl. May, June ; fr. Dec. -Jan. The leaves turn brick-red before falling. Bark 

 thin, smooth, whitish, scooped, inner bark pale red, fibrous. Trunk often chan- 

 nelled. Wood pinkish white, hard, and close-grained. The leaves are acid, and 

 made into preserve (chutney) ; the fruit is eaten. 



9. BUXUS, Tournefort. 



Evergreen shrubs or undershrubs, with 4-sided branchlets and oppo- 

 site, exstipulate leaves. Flowers monoicous, in axillary clusters. Calyx, 

 of male fl. deeply 4-cleft, the segments opposite in pairs, of female fl. 

 deeply 6-cleft, the segments in two circles of 3 each. Stamens 4, oppo- 

 site the calyx-segments, inserted around a 4-sided rudimentary ovary. 

 Ovary 3-celled, 3-cornered, with a flat top, the corners terminating in 

 thick short styles, which alternate with the 3 inner calyx-segments. Cap- 

 sule coriaceous, loculicidally 3-valved, each valve ending in 2 horns, being 

 the halves of 2 of the styles, dissepiments attached to the valves. Seeds 

 3-6, trigonous. 



1. B. sempervirens, Linn.; Hook. Stud. Fl. 330. Syn. B. Wallichiana, 

 Baillon; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 18. Box. Buchsbaum, Germ.; Buis, Fr. ; 

 Bosso, It. Vern. Shanda laghune {barren Daphne), Afg. ; Chikri, Kash- 

 mir ; Pappar, papri, pdprang, shamsJidd, shumaj, Pb. 



A shrub, or small tree, extremities and petioles hairy. Leaves ever- 

 green, coriaceous, glabrous, shining, varying in shape from linear-lanceolate 

 to ovate, 1-3 in. long, narrowed into a short petiole, the tissue of the leaf 

 consisting of two distinct strata, cohering at the edge, the upper stratum 

 containing midrib, nerves, and veins. Flowers sessile, yellowish, with a 

 powerful, unpleasant smell (Himalayan tree), in short, sessile, axillary 

 heads or spikes, the terminal flower generally female, surrounded by 

 numerous male flowers. Styles (in the Himalayan specimens) half the 

 length of ovary, shorter in the European specimens. 



Trans -Indus on the east side of the Suliman range (3000-4500 ft.) Salt 



