XXXIX. ONAG-RACEaE 197 
\-l in. across, obtuse or acute. Flowers white or tinged with 
pink. Ovary 1-celled. Capsule very small ; seed one. 
Mushobra, Mahasu, in woods ; August, September. — Temperate Himalaya, 
7000-11,000 ft. — Temperate regions of the N. Hemisphere including Britain. 
XL. SAMYDACEAS 
A small Order inhabiting nearly all tropical regions ; represented 
in the N.W. Himalaya by only one genus . — Semyda is the Greek 
name of some tree, probably the Birch. 
CASEARIA. In honour of Johann Casearius, a Dutch mission- 
ary in Cochin China, and a botanical author of the seventeenth 
century. — Widely spread in tropical regions, most abundant in 
America. 
Casearia tomentosa, Boxb . ; Bl. Br. Ind. ii. 593. A small, 
tomentose tree. Leaves alternate, shortly stalked, with trans- 
Fig. 59. Casearia tomentosa. 
parent, linear or dot-like glands, ovate-lanceolate, 3-7 x 1^-3 in., 
entire or obscurely toothed ; stipules small, soon falling off. 
Flowers small, 2-sexual, regular, green-yellow, shortly stalked, 
