1. Stmplocos.] 86. STY R ACE .E. 



2. S. spicata, Eoxh. Marang Ludliam, K. 



A small tree with very shining elliptic or oblong serrate or serru- 

 late acuminate leaves often attaining 9" by 3", and white flowers 

 •25-*3" diam. in simple or branched axillary spikes l-3-o" long. Drupe 

 globose-ovoid •25" diam., crowned by the small glabi'ous calyx. 



Along streams only. Saranda forests in Singbhum, rare ! Bonai, Cooper ! 

 Mountain forests of Mayurbhanj, freqvient esp. at elevations of 2000 ft. and over ! 

 Fl. Sept.-Oct. Fr. April. Evergreen, 



Bark grey. Leaves usually about 5-6" by 2*o", narrowed at base, sinuately or 

 sharply serrate except at base, pale (with microscopic white dots beneath), sec. n. 

 7-9 fine distinct. Petiole •3-'J<''. Spikes with pubescent rhachis and small ovate 

 pubescent bract and bracteoles. Sepals orbicular "Oi" or less. Stamens as in last. 

 Seed curved. 



2. STYRAX, L. 



Trees or shrubs sometimes stellately pubescent with entire or 

 toothed leaves and white rarely pinkish subsolitary axillary or race- 

 mose flowers, bracts small. Calyx campanulate, inferior or more or 

 less perigynous, with 5-4 teeth or subtruncate. Corolla with short 

 tube and imbricate or valvate petals on the hypanthium. Stamens 

 10, mostly connate at their somewhat broadened base and adnate to 

 the corolla tube, anthers large linear. Ovary nearly free, 3-eelled 

 below, 1 -celled above, style subulate, stigma capitate. Ovules feAv in 

 each cell. Fruit coriaceous (toughly chartaceous, ClarJce), breaking 

 up irregularly or 3-valved, 1- rarely 2- seeded. Albumen copious, 

 embryo straight, axile or eccentric Avith broad or lanceolate 

 cotyledons, 



1. S. serrulatum, Roxh. 



A small tree with brown twigs, stellately scurfy shoots, lanceolate 

 or elliptic -lanceolate caudate serrate leaves 3-6" long and white 

 flowers which are 1-3 axillary or extra-axillary and running into 

 terminal racemes by suppression of the upper leaves. Calyx irregu- 

 larly lobed. Corolla •5" diam. Avith short tube and suberect narrowly 

 elliptic petals "S" long. 



Mountains of Mayurbhanj, elev, 2500 ft, ! Fl. March, Fr. cs. Deciduous Feb. 



Young leaves very membranous, bright green, 3-1-5 by l'o-2" at time of flowering, 

 soon glabrous except on the nerves beneath and the nerve-axils, sec, n. about 4-7 

 oblirpie fine but very distinct and reticulate. Petiole ■2-'3". Pedicels •2-"35" 

 minutely bracteate and bracteolate. Hypanthium often embracing one-third of 

 the ovary. Petals tomentose. Filaments with e.Kpanded base tomentose, glabrous 

 above (hairy F.B.I,). Ovar.y and .young fruit white tomentose. Fruit ellipsoid 

 ■5" embraced by the toothed or sub-truncate calyx. 



FAM. 87. OLEACEJE. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely undershrubs, sometimes scandent, with 

 opposite (rarely alternate in Jasminnm) simple or compound, rarely 

 gland-punctate exstipulate leaves. Fls. regular mostly in 3-choto- 

 mous cymes or panicles rarely fascicled or racemed, 2 -sexual, polyga- 

 mous or rarely dioecious. Calyx small, truncate or 5-9-, usually 

 4-lobed, inferior. Corolla gamopetalous but tube very short in a 

 few genera (petals almost free in some Linociera), 5-9-petalous or 

 usually 4-petalous, sometimes 0, petals valvate or imbricate in bud. 



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