SYMPLOCINE. 
a minute fluted pitcher ; when bored they are strung like beads, 
and by the natives put round the necks of their children, to 
prevent evil. The nuts only of Nagéia putranjiva, are em- 
ployed in the same manner and for the same end. 
Var. B; platistachya (Wall. cat. no. 4428.) spikes compound, 
downy. h.S. Native of Silhet. 
Spicate-flowered Symplocos. Tree or shrub. 
22 S. racemosa (Roxb. fl. ind. 2. p. 539.) leaves oblong, gla- 
brous, serrulated ; racemes axillary, generally simple; nut 3- 
celled. k.S. Native of Burdwan and Midnapore, in Bengal. 
The Sanscrit name of the tree is Savura and Lodhra, and the 
Bengalee one Lodh. Myrtus, Retz, obs. 4. p. 26. Leaves 
2-6 inches long. Flowers yellow. The bark of this tree is in 
request among dyers of red in Caleutta, and is met with in the 
markets of that town for a trifling price. It seems to be used 
as a mordaunt only to dye with Mungeet (a species of Ribia), 
in which the bark called Lodh is an ingredient. For three yards 
of cloth take Lodh and the bark of Bura Hur (Terminàlia Ché- 
bula) of each one chatuk, or two ounces, pound them together, 
and mix them with water, and steep the cloth in it; then dry it. 
Take one chatuk of alum, dissolve it in water, and boil it; put 
the cloth into this solution, and let it boil for an hour, then wash 
and dry it. Then take 4l ( Morinda tinctoria ) one chatuk, Dhawra 
flowers (Grislea tomentósa) one chatuk, Mungeet half a seer 
(nearly a pound), separately mix them with lukewarm water, and 
boil it. Then put in the cloth and let it boil for 40 minutes. 
Aboor, the red powder used by the natives during the Hoolee 
holidays, is made about Kheerpaee of the bark of this tree. 
Racemose-flowered Symplocos. Tree 20 feet. 
23 S. caupa‘ta (Wall. cat. no. 4413.) leaves lanceolate, or 
elliptic-lanceolate, tapering to both ends, long-acuminated, obso- 
letely denticulated ; racemes simple, axillary, downy ; calyx 
minute. ^b. S. Native of Silhet. 
Tail-leaved Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 
24 S. Lv'crpA (Wall. cat. no. 4414.) leaves smooth, shining 
on both surfaces, coriaceous, elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate, 
entire at the base, and serrated from below the middle, 
acuminated ; racemes downy, branched. h.S. Native of the 
East Indies. 
Shining-leaved Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 
25 S. pyrironia (Wall. cat. no. 4415.) leaves elliptic or ob- 
long, acuminated, shining, coriaceous, entire, or denticulated 
towards the tops ; racemes simple, slender, glabrous, twice the 
length of the petioles. h.S. Native of Silhet. 
Pear-leaved Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 
26 S. raurina (Wall. cat. no. 4416.) leaves oblong or elliptic, 
acuminated, denticulated, shining, smooth ; racemes simple or 
branched at the base, downy. h. S. Native of the East 
Indies. Myrtuslaurina, Herb. madr. Eugènia laurina, Rottl. 
herb. 
Laurel-like Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 
27 S. Hamirronia‘na (Wall. cat. no. 4420.) leaves elliptic- 
lanceolate or oblong, repandly denticulated; racemes simple, 
downy. k.S. Native of the East Indies. Decàdia racemosa, 
Hamilt. herb. 
Hamilton's Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 
28 S. rrepa (Wall. cat. no. 4422.) leaves oblong, coriaceous, 
stiff, quite entire, or repand, obtuse; racemes long, downy, 
simple, or branched at the base. | 5. S. Native of the Burman 
empire, at Moalmeyne. 
Stiff Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 
29 S. potyca’rpa (Wall. cat. no. 4423.) leaves elliptical, acu- 
minated, repandly denticulated; spikes compound. h. S 
Native of the East Indies, at Amherst and Tavoy. 
Many-fruited Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 
30 S. optu'sa (Wall. cat. no. 4424.) leaves coriaceous, quite 
I. Surrocos. 
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entire, oblong-obovate, obtuse, tapering to the base, shining ; 
spikes simple; lobes of calyx rounded, imbricate, obtuse. h .S. 
Native of the East Indies, on the Neelgherry mountains. 
Blunt-leaved Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 
31 S. ramosissima (Wall. cat. no. 4425.) leaves membranous, 
elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminated, denticulated ; racemes 
axillary and lateral, simple and compound. b. S. Native of 
Nipaul, on Sheopore. 
Much-branched Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 
32 S. ADENOPHY'LLA (Wall. cat. no. 4427.) leaves coriaceous, 
lanceolate, tapering to both ends, long-acuminated, usually quite 
entire; racemes compound, downy. h.S. Native of Penang. 
Gland-leaved Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 
33 S. wórLrs (Wall. cat. no. 4433.) branches, racemes, pe- 
tioles, and nerves of leaves on the under surface clothed with 
rusty hairs; leaves elliptic, acuminated, quite entire; spikes 
compound. h.S. Native of Penang. 
Soft Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 
Sect. III.  Parv'RA (meaning unknown to us). Corolla 5- 
parted. Stamens disposed in a triple series. Ovarium inferior. 
— Species natives of Nipaul and China. 
34 S. Sinr’ca (Ker. bot. reg. 
710.) leaves elliptic-oblong, at- 
tenuated at both ends, mucro- 
nately serrated, downy on both 
surfaces and wrinkled ; racemes 
compound, terminal, and axil- 
lary ; calycine segments acumin- 
ated. h. H. Native of China. 
Flowers white. (fig. 1.) 
Chinese Symplocos. Fl. May. 
Clt. 1822. Shrub 3 feet. 
35 S. craracoives (Hamilt. 
mss. ex D. Don, prod. fl. nep. 
p. 145.) leaves ovate, acute, ser- 
rated, villous beneath as well as 
on the branches; panicles race- 
mose, terminal, villous ; calycine 
segments roundish, membranous. ).G. Native of Nipaul, in 
the Great Valley, near the town of Thankot. S. paniculata, 
Wall. Palüra odorata, Hamilt. mss. Flowers white, fragrant. 
This shrub hardly belongs to Sýmplocos, and has the habit of 
Prünus Mahabeb. 
Hawthorn-like Symplocos.: Tree or shrub. 
Cult. The species of Sijmplocos grow well in a mixture of 
loam, sand, and peat; and cuttings of them strike readily in 
sand, under a hand-glass ; those of the tropical kinds in heat. 
FIG. 1. 
Orver CXLI. STYRACI/NEE (this order only contains 
the genus Styrax). Styrácez, part. Richard, ann. du fruct. 
1808. Styracinez, part. Rich. in H. B. et Kunth,' nov. gen. 
amer. 3. p. 256. Guiacane part. Juss. gen. 156. 
Calyx permanent, campanulate, 5-toothed (f. 2. a.). Corolla 
monopetalous, funnel-shaped ; deeply 3-7-cleft, but usually 5 or 
6-cleft, valvate in &stivation. Stamens 10, exserted ; filaments 
monadelphous at the base, adnate to the tube of the corolla ; 
anthers linear, 2-celled, dehiscing lengthwise inside. Ova- 
rium superior, 3-celled, many-ovulate, erect. Style 1 (f. 26.). 
Stigma obsoletely 3-lobed. Drupe nearly dry, containing a 
l-celled, 1-3-seeded nut. Testa of seed double; inner cob- 
webbed, are spongy. Embryo inverted, with elliptic coty- 
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