Styrax. decandria monorynia. 415 



ferior. Drupe dry ; nut one or two-seeded. Embryo erect, 

 and furnished with a perisperai. 



1. S. serrulata. R. 



Leaves oblong, acuminate, serrulate, smooth. Racemes 

 terminal, simple. 



Beng. Koom-jamevct. 



A small tree, a native of Chittagong, where it blossoms 

 in March, and the seed ripens in October. 



Branchlets 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 

 to a receptacle, which rises but little above the bottom 

 of the cell, and is also in some measure attached to the 

 sides of the germ by three partial partitions, in short, 

 semi-trilocular. Style the length of the stamina, smooth. 

 Stigma ohscnrely three-lobed. Drupe or capsule superi- 

 or, ovate, the size of a smalt nutmeg, clothed with short, 

 soft, grey, thin, and rather bristly, pubescence one-cell- 

 ed, when ripe, slitting irregularly from the base, into 



