50 NATURAL HISTORY OP PLANTS. 



locular ; styles 2, 3, entire or 2-lobed at apex ; ovules 2 (of Bums) 

 closed to mieropyle. Eruit baccate or finally subdry, indehiscent ; 

 seeds and other characters of Buccus (or Pachysandra). — Shrubs 

 (evergreen); branches terete; leaves alternate exstipulate entire, 

 penninerved or oftener 3-plinerved to base ; flowers ' in racemes or 

 axillary spikes; the female inferior. {Southern Asia, Sumatra, 

 Java}) 



42. Simmondsia Nutt.'^ — Flowers apetalous,* 1-sexual ; male 

 calyx 4, 5-partite, imbricate. Stamens 10-12, 2-seriate,5 inserted 

 in depressed receptacle ; filaments free short ; anthers ovately oblong 

 extrorse ; cells adnate, longitudinally rimose. Female calyx 4, 5- 

 partite ; folioles connivent to base dilated concave, attenuated at 

 apex, imbricate, persistent. Germen free shorter than calyx conoid, 

 3-sulcate, 3-locular, crowned with 3 thick subulate papuliferous re- 

 curved branches of style. Ovules in cells solitary descending ; 

 mieropyle introrsely superior. Capsules loculicidal, often 1-sper- 

 mous, columelliferous in the centre; columella filiform, 3-partite, 

 persistent. Seed descending ; " cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo 

 thick; radicle short superior." — Evergreen shrubs more or less 

 villose ; leaves opposite entire coriaceous penninerved exstipulate ; 

 flowers axillary ; the male in short ramosely glomeruliferous spikes/ 

 bracteate; the female solitary. {^California.'') 



43. Styloceras A. Jues.^ — Flowers monoecious ; the male nude. 

 Stamens oo (5-30); filaments free very short, centrally inserted on 

 suboblique receptacle ; anthers erect basifixed, introrsely 2 -rimose ; 

 apiculate at obtuse apex.^ Female sepals 4-10, unequal, 2- or 3- 

 cussate, imbricate. Germen free sessile, 2-3-locular; style 2, 3, 

 peripheric or subconnate at base, stout, canaliculate stigmatose 



1 Small, greenist or yellowish. the male flower is described as having 6 petals 



2 Spec. 4, 5. Dor, Pro^. Fl. Nepal. 63 "^ Of which the 5 exterior are altemisepalou^. 

 [Buxus).— Roots.. Exot. Fl. t. 148 (PacAys- « In S. pabulosa the male flowers are said 

 andria P).— Wall. Cat. n. 7979 {Tricera). — to he 2-chotomous cymose. 



Wight, Icon. t. 1877.— Thw. Fnum. PI. Zeyl. ' Spec. 1, 2, Link, Enum. Sort. Berol. ii. 386 



290.— Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 191. (-Bm^ms).— Tore. Mexio.) Botmd. Surv. 202, t. 49. 



' Hook. Lond. Journ. (1844), 400, t. 16.— ' Tent. Euphori. 117, t, 17, fig. 66.— Enbl. 



M. Aeq. Prodr. xvi. p. i. 22.— Lem. et Done. Gen. n. 6773.— H. Bn. Et. Gin. du Groupe des 



Tr. Gin. 255.— Brocchia Mauk. Cat. Sort. Evphorbiacies (1868), 665, t. 20, fig. 25-37; 



Napol. (1845), 80. Monogr. Buxao. et Styloc. 72, 77.— M. Abo! 



< In a doubtful species ( ? of this genus), 8. Prodr. 9. 



paiulosa Kbll. Proceed. Calif. Acad. iSe, ii. 21), ' Pollen not reticulate (M. Aeg.). 



