EBENALES. 

 CoroUa mono- or mono-poly-petalous, hypogynous or epigynoxis, rarely perigynous. 

 Slamens usually many more than the corolla-lobes, if equalling them, then alternating 

 (except in Sapotece). Ovary 2- to many-celled. Cdls usually few-ovuled. Leaccs 

 alternate, exstipulate. Shrubs or trees. 



Order STYRACE.T:. 



Flowers regular, licrmaplirodite, rarely polygamous. Calyx-tuhe more or loss adnatc 

 to the ovary, or tree, the limb o-, rarely 4-7-lobed, tootlied or almost trunrate. Corolla 

 deeply divided into as many or twice as many lobes as there are caly.\-lobes, imbricate 

 or almost valvate in bud. Stamens usually numerous, rarely as many or twice as 

 many as corolla-lobes, inserted in a single row or more at the base, or in the short 

 tube of the corolla, those of the outer series usually alternating with the corolla- 

 lobes. Filaments filiform or flat. Anthers 2-celled, opening by longitudinal slits, 

 the cells either short and almost half-oval or elongate and linear. Ovary inferior 

 or half-inferior, rarely wholly superior, 5-2-eelled, the cells with 2-4, rarely a single 

 ovule, suspended from the inner axial angle or the upper ones, erect. 8tyk fililbrra. 

 Stigma simple or more or less capitate, or o-2-lobed. Fruit either a more or 

 less succulent or dry drupe, containing a 5- or fewer-celled nut, or a capsule 

 opening by valves. Seeds usually solitary, pendulous, the testa thin. Albumen 

 fleshy. Enthryo straight or curved, axile with a long i-adiele, the cotyled(ms 

 short and flat. Stipules none. Flowers usually small or middling-sized, usually in 

 axillary spikes, racemes or clusters, rarely solitary. Bracts minute, often scale-like. 



Stvrax, Linnaiis. 



Calyx somewhat enlarged and inelo.'-ing the fruit for one half. Corolla slightly 

 twisted or almost valvate in bud. Stamens 10, the authors elongate. l)rupe dry, 

 sometimes valvatcly dehiscing. 



* All parts more or less tomentose, the uneler-surfaee of the leaves particularly so. 

 S. Ercioscir, Kz. Hills between the Tsittoung and Salween. 



Leaves whitc-tomentose beneath. Calyx slit spathe-like, conspicuously subulate- 

 toothed. 



** Younger parts more or less tomentose. Leaves sparinyly and minutely stellate- 

 pubernlous, glabrescent and green. 



S. SERiiULATrM, Eoxb. Khakyen Hills. Chittagong. Tcnasserim. 



S. floribimda, Griif. 



Calyx 5- or 6-toothed. Coudla-lubes narrow-oblong, about 4 lines long. Leaves 

 serrulate. 



S. viKGATUM, Wall. Ava (probably). 



S. grandijlorum, Griff. 



Calyx truncate and minutely toothed. Corolla-lobes ovate, nearly I inch long. 

 Leaves remotely and minutely toothed. 



Symplocos, Linnaus. 



Calyx wholly or nearly wholly adinite to the ovary. Corolla-lobes imbricate in 

 bud. Stameyis numerous, indefinite, the anthers short. Druj)c more or less succulent, 

 crowned by the calyx-limb. 



* Ovary '6-cclled. Bruges oblong or elliptical, 3-cclled. Embryo straight. 

 X Brupes sulcate-ribbed. 



S. STTLCATA, Kz. Martaban at oOOO to GOOO feet. var. fl 



Haunat pass, Upper Tena.sseiim. 

 Young parts more or less rusty-pubescent. Flowers sessile, or nearly so, in 

 simple tomentose spikes. 



