Styrax. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Al5 
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ferior. Drupe dry ; nut one or two-seeded, Embryo wate 
and furnished with a perisperm, . 
1, S. serrulata. R. 
Leaves oblong, acuminate, serrulate, smooth. Racemes 
terminal, simple. ag: 
Beng. Koom-jameva. 
A small tree,a native of Chittagong, where it blossoms 
in March, and the seed ripens in October. 
- Branchilets alternate, the extreme tender parts only 
villous, with a little, minute, stellate pubescence. Leaves 
alternate, short-petioled, broad-ovate-lanceolate, serru- 
late, acuminate, while young somewhat villous under- 
neath, about three inches long, and from one to one 
and a half broad, Stipules none. Racemes terminal, 
generally on very short lateral branchlets, solitary, sim- 
ple, shorter than the leaves. Peduncles and pedicels 
villous. Flowers pretty large, alternate; besides those 
which occupy the racemes there are two, or three, on 
pretty long, recurvate, proper peduncles, in each of the 
exterior axills., Bractes subulate, villous. Calyx cam- 
panulate ; mouth repand-dentate, the outside and margins 
villous. Corol one-petalled. Tube short, cylindric. Bor- 
der six-cleft ; divisions lanceolate, villous on the out- : 
side. Filaments ten, inserted into the mouth of the tube 
of the corol, and there broad and woolly. Anthers li- 
near, erect. Germ superior, ovate, villous, one-celled, 
containing a number (from ten to fifteen) of seeds attached 
toa receptacle, which rises but little above the bottom 
of the cell, and is also in some measure attached to the 
sides ofthe germ by three partial partitions, in short, 
semi-trilocular. Style the length of the stamina, smooth. 
Stigma obscurely three-lobed. Drupe or capsule superi- 
or, ovate, the size of a small nutmeg, clothed with short, 
soft, grey, thin, and rather bristly, pubescence one-cell- 
ed, when ripe, slitting irregularly from the base, “into 
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