278 Mr. J. Miers on the Styracese, 



adhaesione lilamentorum breviter subconnata, sestivatione val- 

 vata, marginibus subinvolutis. Stamina 10, uniserialia, erecta, 

 petalis sequilonga; filamenta linearia, angusta, complanata, 

 pilosa, cum petalis orta, et ad eorundein basin breviter et laxe 

 cobserentia, in sestivatione replicata ; antherae lineares, 2-lob8e, 

 lobis parallelis ad filamentum angustiorem dorso adnatis et 

 duplo vel triple brevioribus, ssepe stellatim pilosis, antrorsum 

 longitudinaliter dehiscent ibus. Ovarium omnino superum, 

 turbinatum, summo depressum, imo 10-sulcatum, calyce 

 quadruple brevius, tomentosum, 1-loculare, interne carinis 3 

 prominulis parietalibus e placenta libera brevi centrali orienti- 

 bus, hinc brevissime pseudo-3-locellatura ; ovula pauca, e basi 

 erecta, in tuberculis totidem placentae sessa. Stylus simplex, 

 tenuis, glaber, longitudine staminum, summo paullo incrassatus 

 et vacuus. Stigma obsolete 3-dentatum. Drupa sicca, coriacea, 

 calyce immutato triplo breviori suffulta, turbinata, vel ovata, 

 l-locularis, 1-sperma, in valvis 3 sequalibus ab apice ad basin 

 hians. Semen erectum, solitarium, subglobosum, structura 

 omnino Styracis, nisi embryone magis obliquo. 

 Frutices Asiatici ; folia alterna, subintegra ant denticulata, den- 

 tibus sape glandulosis, petiolata ; racerai sapius terminates, 

 foliosi ant bracteati. 



1. Cyrta agrestis, Lour. Coch. i. 278 ; — foliis ellipticis, utrinque 

 acutis, distanter denticulatis, denticulis glandulosis, crassius- 

 culis, glaberrimis, superne nitidis, valde reticulatis, subtus 

 pallidioribus, sub lente venis obsolete stellato-pilosulis, petiolo 

 brevissimo canaliculato ; racemis terminalibus, multifloris. — 

 China. — v. s. in hb. Hook. (Fortune.) 



Folia 2 poll, longa, 9-11 lin. lata, petiolo vix 1 lin. longo. 

 Racemus 1^-2 poll, longus, 6-8-florus. Calyx urceolatus, 

 sinuato-5-dentatus, 5-cariuatus, tomentosus, 2 lin. longus, 

 ore 2 lin. diam. Petala lineari-lanceolata, acuta, 7 lin. long., 

 1 lin. lat., extus tomentella, intus glabra, parallele nervosa, 

 aestivatione valvata. Stamina 10, quorum 5 petalis alterna et 

 sequilonga, 5 opposita vix breviora, 7 lin. long., filamenta com- 

 planata, imo in tubum 1| lin. long., subcohserentia, et hinc 

 glabra, tunc libera, medio barbata, illinc glabra, connective 

 extus stellato-tomentoso ; antherse lineares, dorso adnatse, 3 lin. 

 longae. Ovarium oblongum, liberum, imo glabrum, superne 

 pilis creberrimis sericeo-villosum, 1 lin. longum. Stylus te- 

 nuis, rectus, glaberrimus, 6 lin. longus ; stigma obsoletum ; 

 pedicelli 5-angulati, superne crassiores, 4 lin. longi. 



2. Cijrta Finlaysoniana. Styrax Finlaysonianum, TVall. Cat, 

 4403 ; DC. Prodr. viii. 261 ; — ramulis racemis calyceque to- 

 mentosis ; foliis ellipticis, utrinque subobtusis, margine ere- 



