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entire, slightly revolute ; 1'5 to 5 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad; midrib 

 slender ; main-nerves 6 to 8 pairs, curving upwards and anastomosing 

 near the margin ; secondary nerves and reticulations prominent, the 

 latter transverse; petiole -2 in. long, stellate-pubescent. Baceines 

 terminal or from the axils of the uppermost leaves of the branchlets, 

 6-8-fl.owered or fewer, sometimes reduced to 1 only, sometimes panicu- 

 late from the absence of leaves, 1 to 2 in. long ; rachis slender, densely 

 white-stellate-pubescent ; pedicels -2 in. long ; bracteoles linear, nearly 

 as long as pedicels ; flowers white. Calyx campanulate ; tube white- 

 pubescent without, glabrous within, -15 in. long; teeth 5, "05 in. long, 

 irregular, repand-dentate, white-pubescent on both sides. Corolla-tube 

 •15 in. long, cylindric ; lobes 5, -25 in. long, oblong, sub-acute, densely 

 white-pubescent without and within except the lower part of the tube. 

 Stamens 10, 2-5 in. long ; filaments inserted on the corolla-tube, wide 

 and white-tomentose at the base, narrower and glabrous above, con- 

 tinued in the connective ; anthers broadly linear, erect, as long as the 

 filaments, rounded at top, cells 2 parallel. Ovary densely white-villous ; 

 style slender, -3 in. long ; stigma small, capitate ; cells 3. Fruit ellip- 

 soid, *4 to" 5 in. long, -3 in. broad, white- or grey-pubescent, supported 

 by the patelliform calyx ; pericarp fleshy, rather thin, irregularly 

 breaking up. Seeds 1, rarely 2 or more ; outer integument smooth, 

 hard, shining, brittle ; inner one membranous, brown ; albumen firm, 

 grey ; embryo erect, nearly as long as the endosperm ; cotyledons 

 cordate, "15 in. long ; radicle thick, terete, as long as cotyledons. Wall. 

 Cat. M02 ; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 267 ; Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5950 {syn. 

 excl.) ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 237 and For. Fl. II. 142 ; 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 588 ; Prain Beng. Plants I. 656. 

 S. Porterianus, Wall. Cat. 4401 ; A. DC. I.e. ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. Pt. 2, 

 463. S. floribimda, Griff. Notul. IV. 287. 



Penang : Wallich 4401 ; Phillips ; Curtis 1187, 1538 ; Bidley 7176. 

 Pekak : Kincfs Collector 1662.— Disteib. India, at 3,000 to 7,000 feet 

 from Nepal to Assam, Chittagong and Burma. 



The plant is frequently affected by galls. 



2. Styrax Benzoin, Dryand. in Phil. Trans. Vol. LXXVII. 308, t. 12 

 (1787). A tree with slender drooping branches, reaching 60 to 80 feet in 

 height and 2 to 3 feet in diam. of stem ; branches rounded, glabrous ; 

 upper branchlets rusty-grey-stellate-pubescent. Leaves chartaceous ; 

 elliptic, acuminate at apex, attenuate or rounded at base ; glabrous 

 above, densely grey-stellate-pubescent beneath ; margins entire or rarely 

 shghtly denticulate ; 4 to 5 in. long, 1*5 to 2*5 in. broad ; midrib slender, 

 j)rominent beneath, impressed above ; main-nerves 6 to 8 pairs, curving 

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