313 EUPHORBIACE/fi. 



1. A. Bunius, Spreng. ; Tul. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Par. ser. 3, xv. 186 

 Wight, /c. if. 819. A tree, usually quite glabrous. Leaves oblong, obtuse, acute, 

 or shortly acuminate, 4 to S- in. long, or sometimes more, somewhat coria- 

 ceous and shining, on petioles of 3 or 4 lines. Male spikes slender, interrupted^ 

 4 to 6 in. long. Stamens usually 3 or 4. female raceme much shorter, 

 Plowers nearly sessile. Fruits about 3 lines long, on pedicels of 1 to \\ lines, 



Hongkong, Champion. In the PMIippines and the Indian. Archipelago. 



3. A. japonicum, Sieb. and Zucc. Fam. Nat. M. Jap. u. 88. A shrob or 

 small tree, glabrous, or the young parts very slightly pubescent. Leaves usually 

 ovate-lanceolate or oblong, acuminate, sinuate, 1^ to 2 in. long, but some- 

 times short and ovate, or linear or narrow-oblong, and 3 in. long, rather thin, 

 but shining, narrowed into a short petiole. Male spikes seldom 1 in. long, 

 several together in the upper axUs, or in a short terminal panicle. Stamens 3. 

 Eemale racemes slender, solitary, about 1 in. long. Drupes small, on pedi- 

 cels of about 1 Une. 



In the Happy Valley, Champion; in low grounds, Wilford; also Sance and Wright. In 

 Japan. 



2. A. paniculatum, Roxh., Tul. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Far. ser. 3, xv. 288 ; 

 Wight, Ic. t. 820. A skrub or small tree, the young branches, leaves, and 

 inflorescence softly pubescent or tomentose. Leaves obovate, broadly elliptical 

 or nearly orbicular, very obtuse, 1\ to 2^ or rarely 3 in. long. Male spikes 

 dense, 1 to 2 in long, females seldom 1 in., both in short terminal panides and 

 very tomentose. Stamens usually 5. Female flowers sessile. Ovaries veiy 

 villous or glabrous. Dmpes small, on short pedicels. 



Near West Point, Champion. Widely diffused over the hilly districts of India, from Ceylon 

 and the Peninsula to the Archipelago, and northward to the Philippines and S. China. 



Oedee XCV, JUGLANDE^. 



Mowers unisexual. Male flowers in spikes or catkins. Perianth iiTegularly 

 2- to 6-cleft, adnate to entire or divided scale-like bracts. Stamens indefinite, 

 sometimes very few. Female flowers solitary or in clusters or spikes. Perianth 

 with a small superior 3- to B-lobed border. Ovary inferior, 1-oelled (or 2- or 

 4-celled at the base), with 1 orthotropous ovule erect fi-om the base of the cell, 

 or from the summit of the axis of the partial cells. Fruit a 1-seeded di-upe, 

 with a hard endocarp. Albumen none. — Trees. Leaves pinnate. 



A small Order, dispersed over the northern hemisphere, intermediate hetween Terehivr 

 thacea and Amentacea, and referred by some, as a suborder, to the one or to the other. 



1. ENGELHARDTIA, Lesch. 



Flowers monoecious, in unisexual or androgynous spikes. Male flowers : 

 Perianth unequally 3- or 4-cleft, on a 3-lobed bract. Stamens 5 to 13. Fe- 

 male flowers adhering to the base of a large 3- or 6-Iobed bract. Perianth 

 superior, of 4 or 5 teeth. Styles 2 to 4, unequal. Drupe smaU, seated on the 

 enlarged wing-like 3-lobed bract. 



A small tropical Asiatic genus. 



Of this genus I have a single specimen from Champion, unfortunately not in a sufficiently 



