Bischofta] XCVIII. EUPHOKBIACE.E 



A large glabrous deciduous tree, 1. alternate trifoliolate, common petiole 

 3-8 in., leaflets elliptic, crenate, acuminate, 3-8 in. long. Fl. greenish-yellow, 

 dioecious, apetalous, disk 0, racemose, bracts lanceolate, early caducous, in 

 ample pedunculate panicles, axillary or above scars of fallen 1. <J : sepals .">, 

 obtuse, concave, concealing the anthers, stamens 5 opposite to sepals, filaments 

 short, round an obtuse pistillode. $: Sepals ovate caducous, ovary 3-4-celled, 

 styles linear, entire. Fr. globose, fleshy, \-\ in. diam., seeds 3 or 4 smooth, 

 shining. 



Snlili imalayan forests and outer hills, from the Jumna eastwards, ascending to 

 4,000 ft. Chutia Nagpur. Western Peninsula. Assam. Chittagong. Burma. 

 I'll" i ,i ml Lower. Chiefly in shady ravines and on the banks of streams. Fl. Marcn, 

 April, foliage turns red before falling. In Burma the $ panicles are often puhescent. 

 A beautiful wood, does not warp, deserves attention. — Malay Penins. and Archip. 

 Polynesia. 



3. BUXUS, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 267. 

 Species 20, Northern Hemisphere. 



B. sempervirens, Linn. Box. Vern. Shamshad, Sansadu, Chikri, 

 Papri, Poppar, N. W. Him. 



An evergreen shrub or small tree, wood yellowish-white, hard, very close- 

 and even-grained, consisting chief!}' of thick-walled wood-fibres; med. rays 

 1, rarely 2 or 3 cells wide. Vessels small, uniformly distributed, wood 

 parenchyma scanty. Branchlets and young 1. pubescent, 1. coriaceous, oppo- 

 site, varying from lanceolate to ovate, quite entire, 1-3 in. long, narrowed 

 into a short petiole. Fl. yellowish, monoecious, smell unpleasant, in dense 

 short axillary spikes, the terminal fl. being usually female. S : Sepals 4 

 biseriate, imbricate, stamens 4 free, opposite to sepals, inserted round a -1- 

 sided rudimentary ovary. ? : Sepals (i, in twocirclesof 3each, ovary 3-celled, 

 3-cornered, top flat, the corners terminating in thick short styles. Capsule 

 coriaceous, 3-valved, each valve ending in 2 horns, being the halves of two 

 styles, dissepiments attached to the valves. Seeds black. 



Suliman rang'', trans-Indus. Salt range. Sere and there, chiefly in shady ravines, 

 forming small nearly pure woods, in tie- X. \V. Himalaya •l-x.imo ft. Xot in Sikkini, 

 but in Bhutan. Fl. March-May. Canary Islands. North Africa. Southern 

 Western Europe. Western Asia. China and Japan. Formosa. 



Mischodon zeylanicus, Thwaites; Bedd. Fl, Sylv. t. 290. Tinnevelli hill-.— Ceylon. 

 A large evergreen tree, branchlets angular, minutely hairy. Jj. whorled, rigidlj 

 coriaceous, oblong, blade 6-3 1. pet . J— 2 in., the young foliage of a fine rich like colour. 

 J fl. numerous, in short axillary bin it. ,iii pubescent panicle-. -■ ■ | ■: ■ I — ". s, often un- 

 equal, stamens ■ .| .j .. .—it • - the sepals, (ilam.iits fie,-, hairy, exserted, pistillode 8-lobed, 

 Capsules J In. diam., on long panicled pedicels, trigonous, nt :; t wo-valved cocci, 



4. BRIDELIA, Willd.; PL Brit. Ind. v. 267. 



Trees, shrubs or climbers, 1. alternate, short petiolate, generally distichous, 

 sec. n. prominent, parallel. PL small, monoecious or dioecious, sessile or Dearly 

 s... in axillary or spicate clusters, bracteoles numerous between the flowers. 

 Calyx-tube shorl and flat, segments ■">. valvate in bud, petals 5 smaller than 

 calyx-segments. Disk broad, ' Lining the calyx-tube, ? conical or tubular, 

 often enclosing the ovary. S- Stamens 5, inserted in a whorl itral 



ii I..-, enclosing the rudimei iry, anther-cells parallel. ?: Ovary glab- 



rous 2- rarely 3-celled, the base enclosed in t he calyx-tube, styles '-', bifid, 

 in B.minutiflora 1 only. Drupe with 1 or 2, l-seeded pyrenes. Cotyledons 

 thin in fleshy albumen or fleshy with membranous albumen. Species 30, 

 tropical Africa, Madagascar, Iudo-M h China, tropical 



Australia, New I laledonia. 



A. Sec. n. numerous, usually 12-30 pair. 



