OELASTBACE^. 49 



culate. 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 {^Euluxus) 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 Buxus ; male 

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

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

 longer patulous, stigmatose within and to the subbilobed apex. 

 Ovules (of Buxus) 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.—Vereamal 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. Germen 2-3- 



^ Fl. £or..Amer. ii. 177, t. 45.— A. Joss. ' Spec. 2. Pursh. Fl. N.-Amer. i. 117.— A. 



Tent. Mv/phorUats. 13, t. 1, fig. 2.— Tuep. Diet. Gkay, Man. ed. 6, 439.— Sieb. et Zuoc. Ahh. 



' Se. Nat. Atl. t. 277.— Endl. Gen. n. 6870.— Math.-Phys. El. Baier. Akad. iv. p. ii. 142 ; Fl 



H. Bn. Monogr. Buxac. 10, 19, 55, t. 3, fig. 1-14; Jap. Fam. 34.— Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 910.— Bot. 



Admsonia, xi. 283.-51. Ajrg. Trodr. 21. Seg. t. iZ.—Bot. Mag. t. 1964. 



2 PoUen stellately reticulate. ^ Bot. Reg. t. 1012.— Endl. Qen. n. 5875.— 



^ Integument 2-plioate. H. Bn. Monogr. Buxac. 48, t, 3, fig. 16-30.— 



■• Thickly annular, concave -within, white. M. Akg. Prodr. U.—Lepidopelma Kl. Waldem. 



' Generally reddish. Seis. Bot. 118.t. 22. 



» Sepals red spotted; stamens very conspicu- ' PoUen steljately suhreticulate (M. Akg.). 



ous, white. 



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