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Undoubtedly wild here, it occurs at the dry exposed 

 tops of the limestone ridges. Curtis says that the hard 

 woody part of the stem is in repute as medicine under 

 the name of Tras Sudu. 



E. pilulifera, L. On the beach, Bangtaphan (Keith). Distrib. 

 all warm countries. 



E. atoto, Forst. Bangtaphan (Keith). 



Perlis on the mud banks between the ricenelds at 

 Kanga. A most unusual locality for this seasand-hill 

 plant (14896). 



Distrib. Indo-Malaya, China, Australia. 



Buxus rupicola, n. sp. 



Shrub with pale corky bark. Leaves alternate, elliptic 

 oblanceolate, obtuse, base acuminate, stiffly coriaceous, 

 nerves, invisible, margins recurved, 2i-3 inches long, 

 f-1 inch wide, petiole 4 inch, winged to the base. Flowers 

 in short axillary racemes or panicles, J inch long. Bracts 

 persistent, ovate, i the length of the pedicels. Male flowers 

 on short scurfy pedicels, j\ inch long. Sepals 4, trian- 

 gular, ovate, blunt, Stamens 4, filaments slender,^ a little 

 longer than the sepals, anthers curved, obtuse. Female 

 flowers terminal on the racemes, i inch long. Sepals as 

 in males, but 2 more outer ones and apex more rounded, 

 Styles 3, short, thick, recurved, separate to base. Fruit 

 not seen. 



Lankawi near Dayong Bonting, Feb. 1890. (Curtis, 

 2662). A shrub growing on almost bare rocks close to 

 the sea. 



The distribution of the genus Buxus is rather re- 

 markable in that, though widely scattered over the world 

 in both cold and hot climates, there are considerable 

 areas in which it is not met with. There are between 

 twenty and thirty species known occurring in Eurcpe. 

 Temperate Asia and America both Mainland and the 



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