STYRACEA. 303 
tenuia, vix coriacea, lanceolata, 2-5 poll. longa, 8-15 lineas lata, longe caudato-acuminata, vix 
acuta, basi cuneata, margine integra, supra glabra, nitida, venis immersis, subtus pallidiora, 
secus costam elevatam ferrugineo-pubescentia, venis lateralibus inconspicuis; petiolus pubescens, 
3-4 lineas longus. Flores rosei (Galeottio), circiter 6 lineas longi, brevissime pedicellati, 
racemosi vel subfasciculati, 3-6 aggregati, racemi vel fasciculi axillares; calyx dense sericeo- 
hirsutus, segmentis ovatis, obtusis; petala glabra, haud ad medium connata, apice leviter 
cucullata, minute denticulata; filamenta alte connata, usque ad medio petalorum adnata ; 
ovarium yertice pilosum, stylo infra medium piloso. Fructus ignotus. 
SoutH Mexico, pine-woods in the Cordillera of Oaxaca, at 6000 to 7000 feet (Galeotti, 
1682). Hb. Kew. 
2. STYRAX. 
Styraz, Linn. Gen. Plant. n. 595; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 669; Miers, Contrib. Bot. i. 
p. 178. 
About sixty species, widely dispersed in Tropical Asia and America; a few occurring 
in temperate Asia and the south of Europe; but none hitherto detected in Tropical or 
South Africa or in Australia. 
1. Styrax argenteum, Presl, Reliq. Henk. ii. p. 60; DC. Prodr. viii. p. 264. 
‘Sourn Mexico, Acapulco (Henke), Chiapas (Ghiesbreght, 620). Hb. Kew. 
Ghiesbreght’s specimen bearing the above name in Kew herbarium may belong to a 
different species. 
2. Styrax glabrescens, Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 66; DC. Prodr. viii. p, 265. 
South Mexico, between Tampico and Real del Monte (Berlandier, 429), around 
Jalapa (Galeotti, 2851; Linden, 7; Hahn; Schiede & Deppe), Llano Verde (Hartweg, 
489), Totutla, Vera Cruz (Linden, 76). Hb. Kew. 
_ 8, Styrax punctatum, DC. Prodr. viii. p. 264. 
Panama, Boquete, Veraguas (Seemann, 1229, 1612)—CotomBia; Perv; Brazit. 
Hb. Kew. . 
4. Styrax, sp. . 
Sovutn Mexico, Chiapas (Linden, 358), Orizaba (Botter, 1006). Hb. Kew. 
These specimens may be the typical S. argenteum, Presl. 
Series III. BICARPELLATZ. 
Order LXXXVI. OLEACE. 
Oleacee, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 672. 
Eighteen genera, comprising about 280 species, which are either trees or shrubs, 
except some of the species of Menodora. Widely dispersed in temperate and warm 
regions. 
