103 LXXIX. SjXyHACACE.i:. 



pendulous from the inner angle of each cell ; st3'le usually Uliforni ; 

 stigma capitate or small, scarcely lobed. Drupe ellipsoid or subglobose ; 

 stone usually woody, often ribbed, 1-3-seeded. Seeds oblong ; embryo 

 terete, straight or curved, in the centre of fleshy albiimen ; cotyledons 

 much shorter than the radicle. — Distrib. Wanner regions of Asia, 

 Australia, and America ; species about 280. 



Fruit i-l in. in diain., globose; bracteoles 3, minute 1. & spicata. 



Fruit ^ in. long, ovoid-oblong ; bracteoles 2, ovate, acuminate, 



|- in. long, shorter than the ovate bract 2. S. Beddomei. 



Fruit 1| in. long, ovoid ; bract and bracteoles not known 3. S. kanarana. 



Fruit unknown ; bracteoles lanceolate, as long as the ovate bract. 4. S. Stocksii, 



1. Symplocos spicata, Roxf>. IJort. Bmg. (1814) p. 40. A small 

 or middle-sized tree or large shrub ; young parts glabrous except the 

 inflorescence. Leaves variable in form and texture, 3-6 by l^-SJ in., 

 coriaceous or chartaceous, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate, glabrous and shining, crenate, serrate or subentii'e (some- 

 times leaves with all 3 kinds of margin on the same plant), base acute ; 

 main nerves 6-8 pairs, not conspicuous ; petioles ^-^ in. long. Flowers 

 yellowish-white, fragrant, sessile, in long (often branched) axillary 

 glabrous or pubescent spikes, which are solitary or 2-3 from the same 

 axil and 2-6 times as long as the petiole ; bracteoles 3, beneath and 

 embracing each flower, -^ in. long, ovate, pubescent. Calyx -^ in. 

 long, glabrous; lobes rounded, about equalling the tube. Corolla 

 divided almost to the base ; petals ^ in. long, oblong, rounded at the 

 apex. Stamens about 40, Style slender, without a ring of hairs at the 

 base. Fruit -i— | in. long, globose, surmounted by a very short cylindric 

 tube which is scarcely y^^ in. high. Stone fluted, AVight, 111. t. 150 ; 

 Eedd. For. Man. in Flor. Syhat. p. cxlix ; Glirke, in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Pflanzenf. v. 4, part 1, p. 169, fig. 88, II ; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 8, p. 104 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p, 214; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1898) p. 164 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 3, p. 400. Symjjiocos 

 spicata, var. laurijia, C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 573. 

 S.laurlna (sp.), Wall. Cat. 4416; Grab. Cat. p. 104. Ilopea spicata, 

 Dalz. & (jribs. p. 140. — Flowers : Sept.-Dec. Vern. MirjoU. 



Konkan: Balzelll, Law !, Stocks] S. M. Country : Castlerock, Cookel ; Ramghit, 

 Bitchie, 953 !, Law ex Graham. K.\nara : Law ! ; evergreen forests of N. Kanara 

 Ghats, common, Talbot; Kala naddi, liifchie, 9.53!; Jagalbet, TFiYrA/e, 953 I— Distrib. 

 Throughout a great part of India in the hilly countrj- ; Ceylon, China, Japan, 

 Australia. 



The stones of the fruit are strung as beads to make necklaces ; the leaves are used 

 in the Darjeeling hills to give a yellow dye {Ga?tible). 



2. Symplocos Beddomei, C. B. Clarke, in IJook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 3 



(1S82) p. 582. A moderate-sized very beautiful tree x^ith a shady head; 

 bark often marked with white patches. Leaves crowded at the ends of 

 the branches, subcoriaceous, 4-6 by l-|-24 in., elliptic-oblong, acute 

 or acuminate, glaiiduhir-serrate, crenate, or subentire, glabrous on both 

 sides, polished and shining above, base Jiarrowed ; nerves 6-10 pairs; 

 petioles g in. long. Flowers sessile or shortly pedieelled, white, fra- 

 grant (having the odor of hawthorn), in pubescent spikes or racemes 

 2-5^ in. long, each flower embraced in bud by a large broadly ovate 

 acute foliaceous hairy and ciliate rcticulately veined deciduous bract 



