576 XCI. STYRACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Symplocos. 
HrwarayA; from Nipal to Bhotan, alt. 5-8000 ft., very common. kuss: alt. 
4-6000 ft., common. Marranan; alt. 5-7000 ft., not unfrequent, Kurz. 
An erect tree, often 50 ft.; branchlets glabrous. Leaves 4} by 1$ in., base 
cuneate or obtuse, coriaceous ; nerves numerous, indistinct, not parallel; petiole $ in. 
Panicles 1-1 in., dense, often tripartite from the base, branches stout ; bracts To in. 
broad, obtuse; bracteoles J; in., broad, obtuse. Calyx-tube nearly glabrous, teeth 
5 in. broad, obtuse, glabrous, minutely ciliate. Corolla i-à in. Stamens 20-26. 
isc densely covered with long white hairs. Fruit 4 by à in, ellipsoid, smooth, tip 
obtuse, calyx-teeth incurved inconspicuous. Embryo straight.—There has been much 
confusion respecting this very distinet species. Wallich has, under No. 4418, three 
plants named S. racemosa, Roxb., none of which are right, except letter C, upon 
which De Candolle (in whose Herbarium the specimen is) founded his S. nervosa. 
ll. S. kurgensis, Clarke; leaves oblong acuminate scabrous-villous 
beneath, panicles rufous-hirsute, flowers subsessile, calyx-tube glabrous, teeth 
closely silky. Symplocos, n. 81, Herb. Ind. Or. Hk. f. & T. 8.,spicatee affinis, 
Bedd. For. Man. 162. 
Mts. of Kure, common, G. Thomson ; Beddome. 
Branchlets thick, soon glabrescent except the tips. Leaves 54 by 2 in., base 
rounded or subeordate when mature, sub-denticulate, villous and glandular-seabrid 
beneath, coriaceous; nerves 10 on each side, thick, much elevated beneath ; petiole 
4 in, rusty-villous. Panicles 2-3 in.; bracts 4 in., ovate, densely hairy. Calya-lobes 
yy in., ovate. Petals din. Stamens 50. Disc and style glabrous. Fruit nearly à 
by Lin. cylindric, smooth ; calyx-rim as broad as the fruit, teeth patent. Embryo 
straight.—This differs from S. Hohenackeri, n. 37, in the rounded base of the leaves, 
which are glandular-scabrous beneath, and in the compound spikes. 
Secr. 2. Racemes or spikes undivided (in S. racemosa var. divided). Em- 
bryo straight. Species 12 to 59. 
* Species of the Himalaya and Khasia Mts. 
19. S. racemosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40, and FI. Ind. ii. 539; leaves 
. oblong cuneate at both ends obscurely crenate, midrib glabrous or pilose beneath, 
racemes hairy half as long as the leaves, disc glabrous. Kurz în Journ. As. 
Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 238, and For. Fl. ii. 144, not of Wall. nor of A. DC. 8. 
Hamiltoniana, Wall. Cat. 4420; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 254; Brand. For. Fil. 301. 
S. rigida, Wall. Cat. 4492, type sheet. S. nervosa, A. DC. l.c. 256, not of 
Wight. S. propinqua, Hance in Seem. Journ. Bot. 1868, 329.—Symplocos n. 
52, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. 
Throughout Norru-Easr Innia, alt. 0-2500 ft., common from the Terai of 
Kumaon to Assam and Pegu; common throughout Chota Nagpore.—Duisrris. Birma, 
China. 
` A small tree, or more frequently a shrub; branchlets soon glabrous. Leaves 5 by 
1j in. (sometimes almost orbicular leaves) obtuse, coriaceous ; nerves distant, not 
conspicuous ` petiole 4 in. Racemes 2-4 in.; bracts d in., ovate, hairy, deciduous ; 
lower pedicels often distant, de in.; bracteoles de in., ovate. Calya-tube usually 
glabrous, lobes 3, in., ovate, minutely pubescent. Corolla 4 in. Stamens sometimes 
116. Fruit nearly } by 1 in., subcylindrie, smooth ; calyx-rim nearly as wide as the 
fruit, with erect teeth. Embryo straight.— S. rigida, Wall. type, differs by some of 
the racemes terminating in a leafy branch, so that the pedicels appear solitary from 
the old wood bearing the fruits—Kurz must be mistaken in thinking that this was 
S. racemosa of A. DC., who describes his plant as having racemes about as long as 
the petioles and the ovary pilose at the summit. A. DO.'s plant was therefore, as 
he states, S. racemosa, Wail. = S. theefolia, Don. Kurz also refers the Kew Distrib. 
n. 3660 to S. spicata, whereas that number is S. racemosa, Roxb. 
Var. khasiana; flowers sessile in dense clusters on the spike. Symplocos, n, 
1275, Griff. Itin. Notes, 87.—Khasia; Nongkreem (alt, 4500 ft., perhaps), Griffith, 
