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flowers about 12 ; rachis glabrous, flattened ; bracts and bracteoles minute, caducous ; 

 pedicels none or very short, scarcely -05 in. long ; buds globose. Caly.v-tube -05 in. 

 long ; lobes orbicular, ciliate, as long as tube. Corolla-tuhe very short ; lobes 5, "15 

 in. long, ovate-oblong, ciliate. Stamens about 50, in 5 bundles of about 10 each, 

 opposite the corolla-lobes ; anther-cells orbicular ; filaments slender, the longest as 

 long as the petals. Ovary conical, glabrous ; style slender, "1 in. long, stigma 

 capitate. Fruit not known. 



BoKNEO : in Sarawak, near Kuching, Haviland No. 1954. 



2. Styrax, Linn. 



Trees and shrubs, usually more or less lepidote or stellate-tomentose 

 on all parts except the upper-surface of the leaves, rarely glabrous. 

 Leaves various in shape, entire or serrulate. Flotuers generally white, 

 in lax axillary or terminal, simple or compound, often pendulous 

 racemes ; bracts very small. Calyx campanulate, free or slightly adnate 

 to the base of the ovary, truncate or 5-toothed. Corolla-tube short ; 

 lobes 5, erecto-patent, elliptic-oblong, imbricate or valvate. Stamens 10, 

 1-seriate at the base of the corolla-tube ; filaments more or less flat- 

 tened, continuous with the connective ; anthers large, linear, the cells 

 parallel, erect. Ovary nearly free, at first 3-celled, later often 1-celled ; 

 style subulate ; stigma capitate, somewhat 3-lobed ; ovules few in each 

 cell, in free ovaries nearly all erect from the lower basal angle, in half- 

 adnate ovaries upper pendulous lower erect. Fruit globose or ellip- 

 soid, seated on the cupuliform or patelliform calyx, breaking up 

 irregularly. Seeds 1 or rarely 2 or more, integuments 2, the outer 

 chartaceous or hardened, the inner membranous ; albumen fleshy, 

 copious; embryo straight, axile or excentric ; cotyledons broad, with a 

 longish terete radicle. — Distkib. Warmer regions of Asia and America, 

 . a few extending to temperate Asia and South Europe, species about 60. 



Leaves green beneath, slightly stellate-pubescent .. ..1. S. sernilatuin. 



Leaves white or greyish-white beneath, with occasional rusty-stellate 



hairs : — 



Leaves small, under 5 in. long and 2-5 in. broad ; calyx about 



one-third of the length of the corolla . . . . . . 2. S. Benzoin. 



Leaves large, over 5 in. long and 2-5 in. broad ; calyx about half 



of the length of the corolla . . . . . . . . 'd. S. crotonoides. 



1. Styrax serrulatum, Eoxb. M. Ind. II. 415 (1832). A shrub or 

 small tree, reaching 50 feet in height ; bi"anches slender, branchlets stel- 

 lately grey-pubescent. Leaves membranous ; ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate at apex, rounded or cordate, sometimes acute at base ; nearly 

 glabrous above, glabrescent beneath, but with stellate hairs on both sides 

 of the nerves ; margins sparingly and irregularly serrate, sometimes sub- 



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