LXIV. EUPHORBIA‘CEZ: BU’XUS. 708 
oval-lanceolate, pointed at both ends, and entire. Male flowers upon very 
short pedicels. Female flowers ?. Male flowers disposed in spikes, part 
lateral, part terminal, and having a 3-cleft, 
rather flat, calyx, and 3 stamens that have 
kidney-shaped anthers ; bracteas 1—2-glanded 
and 1-flowered. (Nuét.) A deciduous shrub. 
Carolina and Georgia, in shady woods. Height 
3ft.to 4ft. Introduced in 1812. Flowers 
yellowish ; June and July. 
We are not aware that this species is now in 
existence, in a living state, in England. 1375. S. ligtstrina. 
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BU’XUS Tourn. Tue Box Tree. Lin. Syst. Monce‘cia Tetrandria. 
Identification. Tourn. Inst., t. 345. ; Eng. Flora, 4. p. 132. 
Synonymes. Buis, Fr.; Buxbaum, Buchsbaum, Gev.; Bossolo, Ital. 
Derivation. From puknos, dense ; in reference to the hardness and closeness of the wood; or, 
perhaps, to the denseness of the foliage. The Greeks called the boxes made of this wood, which 
were highly esteemed for their durability, pyrides ; and hence, probably, arose the word pyz, 
which is used for the chest containing the Host in the Roman Catholic church. 
Gen. Char. Flowers unisexual, moncecious.— Male. Calyx of 4 minute leaves. 
Stamens 4, inserted under the rudiment of a pistil.— Female. Flowers singly, 
at the tip of groups of male ones. Calyx as in the male. Styles 3. Stigmas 
3. Fruit a régma, leathery, beaked with the styles. (G. Don.) 
Leaves simple, opposite, exstipulate, evergreen ; entire, smooth, stalked. 
Flowers axillary, aggregate, whitish. Fruit green.—Shrubs or small trees, 
evergreen, with rigid leaves and whitish buds; natives of Europe and 
Asia ; of easy culture in any soil that is tolerably dry ; and propagated freely 
by division of the plant, by cuttings, or by seeds. 
Genus JI. 
2 #1. B.sempervrrens L. The evergreen, or common, Box Tree. 
Identification. Lin. Sp. PL, 1394. ; Smith Eng. Flora, 4. p. 133.; Baxt. Brit. Flow. Pl., 2. t. 142. 
Synonymes. Buxus Raii Syn. 445.; Buis commun, Bois béni, Fr.; Buchsbaum, Ger.; Busso, 
Bossolo, Ital. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 1341. ; and our fig. 1377. 
Spec. Char., ce. Disk of leaf ovate, convex ; footstalk slightly downy at the 
edges. Anthers ovate-arrow-shaped. (Smith.) A low evergreen tree. Eu- 
rope; in England, on Boxhill in Surrey, Chequers in Buckinghamshire, 
and other places, apparently wild. Height 15 ft. to 30ft. Flowers whitish ; 
April and May. Fruit greenish; ripe in August. 
Varieties and Subvarieties. 
® B.s. larboréscens Mill. Dict. No.1. Buis arborescent, Fr.; hoch- 
stammige Buchsbaum, Ger.— Arborescent. Leaves ovate. This is 
the most common form of the species. 
2 B. s.u. argéntea Hort.— Arborescent. Leaves ovate, varie- 
gated with a silvery colour. 
# B. s. a. atirea Hort.— Arborescent. Leaves ovate, variegated 
with a golden colour. 
# B. s. a. margindta Hort.— Arborescent. Leaf ovate, with a 
margin of a golden colour. 
* B. s. 2 angustifolia Mill. Dict. No. 2.— Arborescent. Leaves lan- 
ceolate. 
® B.s. a. varegata Hort. — Arborescent. Leaves lanceolate, 
variegated. 
