572 XC, EBENACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Diospyros. 
Var. andamanica, Kurz; leaves oblong to narrow-oblong, lateral nerves faint and 
numerous, reticulation more lax.—Andamans ` Kure.—Not seen, and for the present 
exceedingly obscure ; for Kurz l. c. adds “ the Andaman tree, I have little doubt, is a 
different species ” (i.e. from the Sumatran), “ but the material is too incomplete for 
_ description,” 
D. Rover, Wall. Cat. 4134; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 239.—'There is no specimen of 
this in Wallieh's herbarium. 
D. venosa, Wall. Cat. 4126 ; leaves alternate elliptic shortly acuminate glabrous, 
female flowers in subsessile clusters 1-3 together, bracts à in. ovate. Anonacea?, 
Hiern in Trans, Camb, Phil. Soc. xii. 271.—Penang; Wallich. 
The single fruiting calyx (not perhaps the normal form) on Wallich's specimen is 
3-lobed, but the young fruit in it is globose, undivided, and ean hardly be Anonaceous. 
The specimen might be D. undulata or some closely allied species. 
ORDER XCI. STYRACEIZE. (By C. B. Clarke.) 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate. Flowers hermaphrodite (in 
the Indian species), in axillary and terminal simple or compound racemes or 
spikes, sometimes solitary, white, rarely rose; bractssmall. Calyx campanulate, 
superior or inferior, limb 5-4-toothed or truncate, persistent, Petals 5-4, free 
or united into a short (rarely long) tube, imbricated (in the Indian species). 
Stamens adnate to the petals, 8-10 or very many ; filaments free or connate ; 
anthers round or linear, dehiscing laterally. Ovary inferior or superior, 2-5- 
celled, or (by the early separation of the septa) 1-celled ; style filiform; stigma 
small or capitate ; ovules 1 or few on the inner angle of each cell, pendulous 
or erect. Fruit drupaceous, 1-seeded, less often 2-3-seeded. Seeds albuminous; 
embryo straight or curved.—Species 220, in the warmer regions of Asia, 
Australia and America; not known in Africa. 
Stamens many, in several series. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. S¥MPLOCOS, 
RU COG QU o o ror xt vas MEME 
1. SYMPLOCOS, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs; often drying yellow. Leaves alternate, toothed or entire. 
Racemes or spikes axillary, simple or compound, sometimes reduced to a single 
flower; bracts usually solitary at the base of each pedicel, caducous; brac- 
teoles 3-1, small, at the base of the flower. Flowers white (in S. rosea, rose), 
hermaphrodite (in the Indian species). Calyx-tube adnate; lobes 5, small, 
imbricate. Petals (in the Indian species) 5, imbricate, free or obscurely connate, 
more rarely connate into a tube. Stamens numerous, in several series, adnate 
to the corolla-tube, usually throughout its length, and in a few species in a 
tube beyond it; anthers shortly-oblong, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary in- 
ferior (in the Indian species), 3-, rarely 2- or 4-celled ; style filiform, stigma 
small capitate sub-3-lobed ; ovules 2, pendulous from the inner angle of 
each cell. Drupe ellipsoid, endocarp usually woody, 1-3-seeded. Seeds oblong, 
straight or less often curved ` embryo terete, axile, straight or curved.—Di1s- 
TRIB. Species 160, in the tropics of Asia, Australia and America. 
Supesnus I. Hopea (Species 1 to 59). Petals free or connate only at the 
very base, spreading ; buds subglobose. Filaments slender, more or less united 
to the corolla, not forming a a distinct from the corolla. Embryo straight, 
or curved.—The curvembyrose species constitute the section Palura, not 
adopted here, the embryo being unknown in many species. 
Srcr. 1. Racemes or spikes (at least some of them) compound. (See also 
12, S. racemosa var., and 51. S. angustata). Species 1 to 11. 
