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ORD. XVII. Bicornes. 29) 
STYRAX OFFICINALE. OFFICINAL STORAX. 
Styrax. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb, ab hac arbore effluit. 
VE SE 
SYNONYMA. Styrax folio mali cotonei. Bauh. Pin. p. 452. 
Styrax arbor. J. Bauh. Hist. vol. i. p. 341. Gerard. Emac. p. 
1526. Raii Hist.p.1680. Styrax arbor vulgaris. Park. Theat. 
p. 1530. Lin. Spec. Plant. p. 635. Miller’s Figures, p. 260. 
Class Decandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 595. 
Liss. Gen. Ch. Cal. inferus. Cor. infundibuliformis. Drupa 2-sperma. 
Sp. Ch. ‘S. foliis ovatis subtus villosis, racemis simplicibus folio 
brevioribus. Ait. Hort. Kew. 
‘THE Storax-tree usually rises 250ve twenty feet in height; it 
sends off many strong branches, which are covered with a roughish 
bark of a grey colour: the leaves are broad, elliptical, entire, 
somewhat pointed, on the upper surface smooth, and of a light 
green colour, on. the under surface covered with a:whitish down ; 
they are placed alternately, and stand upon short footstalks: the 
flowers are large, white, and disposed in clusters upon short 
peduncles, which terminate the branches: the corolla is monope- 
talous, funnel-shaped, and divided at the limb into five lance-shaped 
segments: the filaments are ten, placed in a regular circle, and 
seem to adhere towards the base: the anthere are erect and ob- 
long: the germen is oval, and supports a slender style, with a stm- 
ple stigma: the fruit isa pulpy pericarpium, -which contains one 
or two nuts of an oval compressed figure. It is a native of Italy 
and the Levant, and flowers in July. 
Gerard appears to be the first who cultivated the Storax-tree in 
England; and although it is indigenous to many of the southern 
