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Foliage and inflorescence glabrous; calyx glandular-scurfy. 
STORAX FAMILY. 
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1. S. Americana. 
Lower surfaces of the leaves and inflorescence canescent or tomentose. 
Leaves oblong or oval, 1'-2'¢’ long. 
Leaves obovate or oval, 2’-6’ long. 
1. Styrax Americana Jam. 
Styrax Americana Yam. Encycl. 1:82, 1783. 
A shrub, 4°-10° high, the foliage gla- 
brous or very nearly so throughout. 
Leaves green on both sides, oblong, oval 
or obovate, acute or obtuse at the apex, 
narrowed at the base, entire, or toothed, 
1/-3/ long, %4/-114’ wide; petioles 2//-4’’ 
long, often scurfy when young; flowers 
few in the mostly short racemes or 
sometimes solitary, 4/’-7’’ long, about the 
length of their pedicels; calyx and pedi- 
cels glandular-dotted; petals oblong-lan- 
ceolate, acute, puberulent on the outer 
surface or glabrous, valvate or but slightly 
overlapping in the bud; fruit subglo- 
bose, puberulent, about 3/’ in diameter. 
In moist thickets and along streams, Vir- 
ginia to Florida, west to Arkansas and 
Louisiana. March-April. 
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3. Styrax grandifolia Ait. 
leaved Storax. (Fig. 2836.) 
Styrax grandifolia Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 75. 
fruit obovoid, puberulent, about 4’’ long. 
In woods, Virginia to Florida and Georgia. 
March-—May. 
Large- 
1789. 
A shrub, 5°-12° high. Leaves obovate or 
oval, dentate, denticulate or entire, short- 
petioled, tomentose or canescent and pale be- 
neath, green and glabrous above, 2’-6’ long, or 
on young shoots much larger; flowers 5/’-8/’ 
long, longer than their pedicels, mostly several 
in loose sometimes elongated racemes; rachis, 
pedicels and calyx stellate-tomentose; petals 
oblong, acutish, imbricated or convyolute in the 
bud, puberulent without and often also within; 
2. S. pulverulenta. 
3. S. grandifolia, 
(Fig. 2834.) 
Smooth Storax. 
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2. Styrax pulverulénta Michx. 
Downy Storax. (Fig. 2835.) 
Styrax pulverulenta Michx, Fl. Bor. Am. 
2:41. 1803. 
Similar to the preceding species, but 
the lower surfaces of the leaves, the calyx 
and pedicels are densely stellate-pubes- 
cent or scurfy. Leaves oval or oblong, 
usually acute at each end and denticulate, 
short-petioled, 1/-214’ long, pale beneath; 
flowers in short terminal racemes and of- 
ten in pairs in the axils, 4/’-7’’ long, usu- 
ally longer than their pedicels; petals 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, puberulent on 
both sides or only on the exterior, convo- 
lute or imbricated in the bud; fruit glo- 
bose, puberulent, about 3/’ in diameter. 
In moist pine-barrens, Virginia to Florida 
and Texas. March-April. 
