582 XCI. STYRACEX,. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Symplocos. 
35. S. macrocarpa, Wight ms.; leaves oblong narrowed at both ends. 
glabrous, spikes short dense rusty-pubescent, calyx-tube pubescent, fruit large 
long-ellipsoid. 
Sourn Deccan Pentnsura ; Courtallum, Wight, herb, nn. 467, 469. 
Branchlets stout, rusty. Leaves attaining 8 by 24 in., slightly crenulate, charta- 
ceous ; primary nerves 9 pairs, conspicuous but not thick, secondary nerves distinct 
beneath; petiole 4-4 in. Spikes 1-13 in., stout; bracts l in., spathulate obovate, 
rusty-pubescent ` flowers crowded. Ca/ya-tube 4; in., teeth more than } in., lanceolate. 
Petals 3 in. Stamens 40. Disc and style glabrous or nearly so. Fruit 14 by 3 in., 
smooth, round ; calyx-rim 4 in., broad, teeth patent.— Examples in young fruit may 
be distinguished from S. Beddomei by the short stout spikes, and the shorter petioles. 
36. S. Gardneriana, Wight Ic. t. 1231; leaves elliptic cuneate at both 
ends villous beneath, nerves numerous strong subparallel, calyx-tube densely 
hairy, fruits hairy. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 237. 
Borg Marasar Mrs., alt. 4-7500 ft.; Nilgherries, Travancore, Anamallays, &c., 
frequent. 
A small tree; branchlets thick, villous. Leaves 4} by 2 in., slightly erenulate, 
coriaceous ; nerves 10 pairs; petiole i in., stout, rusty-villous. Spikes 2 in., Stout, 
fulvous-villous; bracts 1—4 in., ovate, densely villous, caducous ; flowers sessile or the 
lower pedicels attaining 4 in, Calyx-tube i5 in., teeth à in., oblong, densely silky. 
Petals 4-4 in. round. Stamens 50. Dise shortly densely villous. Fruit 4-4 in., 
cylindric, densely villous; calyx-rim A in. wide, teeth patent.— Easily distinguished 
by the very hairy fruit. Beddome’s figure represents the fruit of Gardneriana, but 
the leaves of a plant since sent to Kew as a new species. This latter has leaves 
‘more rounded at the base and more acute bracts than S. Gardneriana. 
37. S. Hohenackeri, Clarke; leaves elliptic cuneate at both ends 
villous beneath, nerves numerous strong subparallel, calyx-tube glabrous. 
Eriobotrys vel Photiniw affinis, Mig. in Pl. Hohenack. n. 456. 
Mercara in Canara, Hohenacker. 
Hohenacker’s example (in flower) resembles S. Gardneriana in every point but 
the conspicuously glabrous calyx-tube, the calyx-teeth being densely silky. It has 
hence been supposed a simple-spiked var. of S. kurgensis, n. 11; but it so closely 
resembles S. Gardneriana that further material may show it a mere variety thereof. 
38. S. Beddomei, Clarke; leaves elliptic or oblong narrowed at both 
ends gland-serrulate glabrous, spikes long fulvous-villous, calyx-tube glabrous. 
teeth sparsely pilose, fruit ovoid. S. reticulata, Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 104. 
Symplocos sp., Herb, Wight, n. 62. Hopea racemosa, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 
140. 
WESTERN Guats ; from the Concan to Kurg, frequent. 
Perhaps only a variety of S. racemosa; but the leaves are less coriaceous, the 
nerves more numerous (9 pairs), more distinct, the crenatures stronger, the inflores- 
cence spicate, scarcely racemose ; but the greatest difference is in the fruit, which is 
ovoid, 4 by £ in. (that of S. racemosa is much narrower, not wider towards the base). 
Van. glabrata ; flowering spikes nearly glabrous, fruit subcylindric. Symplocos, 
n. 32, Herb. Ind. Or. Hk. f. & T.—Kurg; G. Thomson.—Leaves glabrous from the 
bud; ealyx-teeth glabrous; lower pedicels in fruit attaining à in.; fruits j-4 by 
lin. 
Van. flagellaris; spikes in young fruit 53 in. long slender wavy, otherwise as var. 
glabrata.—Bombay Presidency; Dalzell. 
. 99. S. foliosa, Wight Ic. t. 1234; leaves elliptic or oblong serrulate from 
the base glabrous, spikes fulvous-villous, calyx-tube glabrous. S. nervosa, 
Wight Ic. t. 1235 ; Bedd. For. Man. 149, not of A. DC. 
