Symplocos.]] ^ xor styracem. (C. B. Clarke.) 578 
* Embryo curved. (in several not known). 
1. S. crateegoides, Ham. ms.; Don Prodr. 145; leaves broadly elliptic 
closely sharply serrulate towards the acuminate apex, cyme elongate compound 
subpanicled, disc glabrous. A. DC. Prodr. viii, 258; Brand. For. Fl. 299; 
Kurz For. Fl. ii. 147, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 259. S. paniculata, 
Wall. Cat. 4499. Lhodra crategoides, Dene in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 105, t. 110.— 
Griff. Itin. Notes 163, n. 839. 
HrwALAYA; alt. 2-8000 ft.; from Kashmir to Bhotan; common.  Knasta ; alt. 
3-5000 ft. ; common. Marranan; Nattoung Hills ( Kurz).—DrsTRrs. Japan. 
A tree, 40 ft., or shrub. Leaves 23 by 1-13 in., varying from lanceolate acuminate to 
broadly obovate-elliptie subobtuse, teeth sometimes nearly obsolete, usually softly pilose 
beneath, at least on the midrib, sometimes glabrous; reticulating nerves prominent 
beneath; petiole lin. Panicles 1-5 in., hairy, glabrescent or glabrous ; lateral branches 
distinct, cymosely many-flowered, or with few longer-pedicelled flowers ; bracts small, 
linear, caducous. Calya-tube obconie, glabrous, or sparse!y pilose or densely hirsute ` 
teeth small obtuse, or lanceolate subacute, glabrous ciliate or pilose. Corolla 1-1 in. 
Stamens 20.60. Fruit 4-4 in., obliquely ovoid or obovoid, ealyx-rim small, very 
much narrower than the fruit.—- Most variable : the typical North-west form (described 
by Brandis) has a glabrous calyx-tube with short obtuse teeth; while Griffith's n. 
306 (from Khasia) has densely hairy ealyx-tube and long calyx-teeth. The fruits 
vary so greatly in form and size that Thomson (erroneously) regarded some as insect- 
injured. 
9. S. spicata, Joch, Hort. Beng. 40, and Fl. Ind. ii. 541 ; leaves broadly 
lanceolate acute serrulate glabrous, flowers sessile in long-branched spikes, disc 
glabrous. Wall. Cat. 4417; Brand. For. Fl. 300; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 146, and 
in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 239. S. polycarpa, Wall. Cat. 4423; A. DC. 
Prodr. viii, 255; Kurz He S. Loha, Don Prodr. 144; A. DC. l.c. 8. 
racemosa, Wall. Cat. 4418, in part, not of Roxb. 
NogrH and East Inp1a; near the base of the hills, alt. 0—4000 ft.; from 
Kumaon to Bhotan, Assam and Martaban; common.—Ditsrris. China, Japan, 
Australia ?. 
A small tree. Leaves 5 by 2 in, base cuneate; nerves distant, not prominent 
beneath, parallel; petiole t in. Spikes 2-4 in., often tripartite below, sometimes 
panicled, glabrous or obscurely rusty-pubescent ; flowers all closely sessile, the de- 
pressed ovary and short calyx-tube embraced by the 3 persistent small ovate obtuse 
bracteoles. Calyx-lobes 3, in., round, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Petals À in. 
o . 
Stamens about 40. Fruit 1 in. diam., subsymmetric, ribbed (or smooth), globose, 
surmounted by a very short cylindric tube; calyx-rim as wide as the tube.— Wallich's 
S. polycarpa only differs in the larger leaves ; Kurz separates it by the smooth, not 
ribbed fruit; but the fruit is distinctly ribbed in Wallich’s polycarpa. The whole of 
this series of S. spica/a type is readily distinguished by the long branches of the 
spike, with small distant flowers and very depressed ovaries. 
‘Var. laurina, Wall. Cat. 4416 (sp.); spikes shorter fulvous subtomentose or 
hirsute, flowers rather larger densely crowded, ovary less depressed. S. spicata, 
A. DC. Prodr. viii. 254; Wight IU. t. 150; Thwaites Enum. 154; Bedd. For. Man. 
149. S. flavida and S. Loha, Mig. in Pl. Hohenack. pv. 1053, 1054. Myrtus laurina, 
Retz Obs. iv. 26. Eugenia laurina, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 967. Bobua laurina, DC. 
Prodr. ii. 24. Hopea spicata, Dalz. d Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 140.—W. side of the Deccan 
Peninsula and Ceylon; alt. 2-7000 ft , very common.—(Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 62.) . 
Var. attenuata, Wall. Cat. 4426 (sp.); leaves long-attenuate at the base, spikes 
shorter tripartite or simple, fruits smaller often only din. A. DC. Prodr, viii. 256.— 
Khasia; alt. 3—6000 ft., common, Hills of British Birma, Kurz. 
Var. malasica; leaves less coriaceous, secondary nerves prominent, flowers less 
closely sessile, ovary not depressed, calyx-lobes oblong prominent above the bracteoles. 
—Malay Peninsula, common; Maingay, n. 957, &c.—This is not exactly S. Stawellii, 
F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. Austr. v. 60, which has the flowers more distinetly pedicelled, 
and is more like the Ceylon S, laurina. R 
