Olochidion.'] euphobbiacejE. 815 



rianth-segments appear to be broader, the female ones much shorter, and the 

 style much more prominent. Capsule 4 lines diameter, usually 5- or 6-ceIled. 



Hongkong, Hance, Wright. In a ravine at the foot of Victoria Peak, Wilford. Also in 

 Java. 



7. G. macropbyllum, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 491. Near Q. 

 lavigatum, but the capsules are fuU 6 lines diameter, 7- or 8-ceUed, with pro- 

 minent angles, scarcely depressed on the top, and slightly pubescent. Branches 

 stout, glabrous. Leaves oval-oblong, obtuse, 6 or 6 in. long, coriaceous and 

 quite glabrous. Fruiting-clusters quite sessile. Flowers not seen. 



Hongkopg, Hinds. I have seen no other specimen, and the species must therefore remain 

 at present doubtful. Some specimens from Assam have similar large fruits, but vrith differ- 

 ently shaped leaves. 



18. BITXUS, Linn. 



Flowers monoecious, in axillary clusters. Perianth calyx-Hke, of 4 small 

 segments, imbricate in the bud. Male iiowers : Stamens 4, opposite the seg- 

 ments, filaments free, anthers adnate. Female flowers : Ovary 3-celled, with 

 2 ovules in each cell. Styles 3, distant at the base, undivided, but splitting 

 with the capsule. Capsule coriaceous, loculicidaUy 3-vaLved, each valve bear- 

 ing the dissepiment in the centre, and crowned by 2 horns, being the halves 

 of 2 of the styles. — Evergreen shrubs' or trees, vrith opposite entire coriaceous 

 leaves. 



A small genus, ranging over the temperate or subtropical regions of the northern hemi- 

 sphere, but confined to the Old World, unless the W. Indian Triceras be admitted as congeners. 



1. B. sempervirenSj X««».;.5affl. ^Ma;. 59. A glabrous much-branched 

 shrub or small tree. Leaves in the Hongkong variety narrow-oblong, obtuse 

 or'emarginate, and nearly 1 in. long, in other Chinese specimens obovate or 

 ovate. Flowers small, sessile, usudly several malqs and 1 female in each axil ; 

 the small bracts and perianth-segments broadly, ovate. Stamens much longer. 

 Capsule ovoid, 3 or 4 lines long, S-horned tiU ripe, then 6-horned by the split- 

 ting of the valves. Seed shining black.: — B. chinemis, Link; BaiU. I.e. 66 

 (from the diagnosis). , 



Near Taitamtuk, Hance and Harland. In Putoy island, Wright. Eanges over southern 

 Europe and western Asia, and again in China and Japan, and if, as believed by Hooker and 

 Thomson, the B. longifolia, Boiss., and£. Wallichiana, BaiU., are forms of the same species 

 it is also abundant in northern India. 



19. BISCHOFFIA, Blume. 

 (Stylodiscns, Bertn. Microelus, Arn.^ 



Flowers dioecious, in axillary panicles. Perianth smaU, calyx-Uke ; segments 

 5, valvate in the bud. Male flowers : Perianth-segments very concave, enclosing 

 the stamens at first, afterwards reflexed. Stamens 5, opposite the segments, 

 inserted round a raised central disk, filaments very short. Female flowers : 

 Perianth-segments lanceolate. Ovary 3-celled, with 3 ovules in each cell. 

 Styles linear, entire. Fruit a globular drupe, enclosing 3 indehiscent cocci. — 

 Leaves alternate, compound. 



The genus is limited to a single species. 



