Tas, 5950. 
STYRAX sERRvuLatum. 
Native of India and Japan. 
Nat. Ord. Strracacea.—Tribe, StyRACER. 
Genus Srrrax, Tourn. ; (Alph, DC. Prod. vol. viii. p. 259). 
Stryrax serrulatum; ramulis gracilibus glabris v. puberulis, foliis ellipticis 
v. elliptico-lanceolatis v. late et subtrapeziformi ovatis regulariter v. 
irregulariter serratis interdum uno latere sinuato-lobatis acutis acumi- 
natis v. obtusis in petiolum angustatis, utrinque glabris v. costa 
superne puberula, cymis 3-6-floris terminalibus nutantibus, floribus 
gracile pedunculatis, calyce hemispherico-turbinato v. campanulato 
demum glabro obscure 5-dentato, petalis canis. a 
SryRax serrulata, Roxb. Flora Indica, vol. ii. p. 415; Wall. Cat. n. 4402 ; 
Alph. DC. l.c. 267. i 
S. japonicum, Sieb. and Zuce. Fl. Jap. vol. i. p. 53, t. 23; Alph. DC. Le. 
p- 266; Regel Garten Flora, vol. xvii. t. 583. 
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A bush or small tree, common in Southern Japan, where it 
is much cultivated on account of its ornamental appearance, 
both in gardens and by roadsides. It was also found in the 
straits of Corea by Wilford when collecting for the Royal 
Gardens in 1859, and in the Loo-Choo Islands by the United 
States North Pacific Exploring Expedition in 1854, and is 
abundant in Eastern Bengal, from the Himalayas, the 
Khasia Mountains, Chittagong, &c. to Penang. Itis curious 
that so well-known and widely diffused a plant should not 
have been described in Thunberg’s “ Flora of Japan,” or in the 
earlier work of Kampfer. Siebold gives its native name as 
Tsisjano-ki, and Oldham, who introduced the plant into Kew, 
as Naats“gi. 
The young shoots of this and other species of Styraw are 
much infested by a gall-producing insect, that transforms the 
young leaves into incurved club-shaped bodies covered with 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1872. 
