CELASTRACE^. 49 



dilate. Ovules in cells 2, inserted under the apex in the internal 

 angle, collaterally descending ; micropyle introrsely superior. Cap- 

 sule coriaceous, loculicidal ; columella short or ; valves at apex 2- 

 cornute septiferous within; seeds in each 1, 2; testa crustaceous 

 nitid ; hilum concave thickened to an aril within ; albumen copious 

 fleshy ; embryo axile longitudinally subequal to albumen, straight or 

 slightly curved ; cotyledons oblong elliptical ; radicle equal or longer 

 superior. — Shrubs or under-shrubs (evergreen) ; branches often 4- 

 gonal ; leaves opposite petiolate exstipulate entire penninerved ; 

 flowers axillary. The female terminal pluribracteate ; the male 

 inferior spicate (Uubuxus) or oftener racemose pedicellate {Tricera\ 

 1-bracteate; bracts decussate imbricate. [Europe and temperate 

 Asia, tropical eastern Africa, Madagascar, central America, Antilles,) 

 See page 16. 



40. Pachysandra Michx.^ — Flowers nearly of Bitxus ; male 

 sepals 4. Stamens 4,^ inserted under the rudiment of the gynsecium. 

 Female sepals 4-6. Germen small oftener 3-locular ; styles much 

 longer patulous, stigmatose within and to the subbilobed apex. 

 Ovules (of Buxiis) in cells 2 ; micropyle introrsely superior ^ obtu- 

 rate. Capsules 2, 3-coccous, with 2 persistent styles, 3-cornute ; 

 seeds ovoid or subglobose ; testa crustaceous nitid, thickened to hilum 

 produced to an aril* to summit of raphe; albumen and other cha- 

 racters of Buxus. — Perennial herbs ;^ rhizome and branches her- 

 baceous terete ; leaves alternate petiolate exstipulate subovate coarsely 

 serrate ; flowers terminal or cauline in axils of leaves or bracts 

 spikelike ; flowers ^ alternate ; the female few inferior ; the male 

 superior more numerous, sessile or very shortly pedicellate, often 

 bracteolate. {North America, Japan?^ 



41. Sarcococca Lindl.^ — Flowers nearly of Buxus ; the male 4- 

 androus.9 Female sepals 4-6, imbricate in 2 series. Oermen 2-3- 



^ Fl. Bor.-Amer. ii. 177, t. 45.— A. Juss. 7 Spec. 2. Pursh. Fl. N.-Amer. i. 117.— A. 



Tent. Euphorbiac. 13, t. 1, fig. 2. — Turp. Bid. Gray, Man. ed. 5, 439. — Sieb. et Zucc. Abh. 



Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 277.— Endl. Gen. n. 5870.— Math.-Phys. Kl. Baier. Ahad. i\. ^.ii. 142; Fl. 



H. Bx. JI/b;;o/7r. 5«<.rac. 10, 19, 55, t. 3, fig. 1-14; Jap. Fam. 34.— Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. ^lO.—Bot. 



Adansonia, xi. 283.— M. Arg. Frodr. 21. Rey. t. 33.— ^oi^. Mag. t. 1964. 



2 Pollen stellately reticulate. ^ Bot. Reg. t. 1012.— Endl. Gen. n. 5875.— 



3 Integument 2-plicate. H. Bn. Monogr. Buxac. 48, t, 3, fig. 15-30. — 

 "» Thickly annular, concave within, white. M. Arg. Prodr. II.— Lejndopelma Kl. TFaldetn. 

 6 Generally reddish. Rets. Bot. 118. t. 22. 



^ Sepals red spotted ; stamens very conspicu- ^ Pollen stellately subreticulate (M. Arg.). 

 ous, white. 



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