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Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate, clothed with hoary hairs 
CHAP. LXXI. , * USDPYRA‘CEZ. STY.RAX. |. -- 1187 
CHAP: LX XI. 
OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER STYRA‘CEZE : 
Genus I. 
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STY‘RAX LZ. Tue Srorax. Lin. Syst. Decandria Monogynia. 
Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 595. ; Tourn., t. 369. ; Juss, Gen., 156. ; Gertn, Fruct., 1. p, 284. t. 59. 
Lindl. Nat. Syst. Bot., 2d edit., p. 228.; Don’s Mill., 4 p. 4 
Synonymes. Alibocifier, Fr.; Storax, Ger. 
Derivation. The word sturazx, applied to this plant by Theophrastus and Dioscorides, is a mere 
alteration of assthirak, the Arabic name of S. officinale. 
Gen, Char.,§c. Calyx permanent, campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla mono- 
petalous, funnel-shaped, deeply 3—7-cleft, but usually 5- or 6-cleft, valvate 
in estivation. Stamens 10, exserted. Filaments monadelphous at the base, 
adnate to the tube of the corolla. Anthers linear, 2-celled, dehiscing length- 
wise inwardly. Ovarium superior, 3-celled, many ovuled, erect. Style 1. 
Stigma obsoletely 3-lobed. Drupe nearly dry, containing a 1-celled, 
1—3-seeded nut. Testa of seed double; inner cobwebbed, outer spongy. 
Embryo inverted, with elliptic cotyledons, and a thick superior radicle. 
Albumen fleshy. (Don’s Mill., iv. p. 4.) — Elegant trees or shrubs, of which 
27 species are described in Don’s Miller, chiefly natives of Asia and South 
America; but there are four hardy species, natives of Europe or North 
America, which are cultivated in British gardens. They require a soil 
rather light than otherwise, on account of their hair-like roots; and to be 
placed against a wall, in the climate of London, when it is intended that 
they should flower freely. In affinity, as well as in general appearance, this 
genus approaches near to that of Halésia; and there is such a close general 
resemblance among all the allied species of Styrax, that they may pos- 
sibly be only varieties of one form. The price of plants, in the London nur- 
series, is from Is. 6d. to 2s. each. 
% 1. S. oFFICINA‘LE DL. The officinal Storax. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 635.; N. Du Ham., 7. p. 7.;/ Don’s Mill., 4. p. 4.; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 
Synonymes. Lagomélia, Modern Greek; Sturax kalamités, Ancient Greek. 
Engravings. Cav. Diss., 6. p. 338. t. 118. f.2.; Woody. Med. Bot., 197, t. 71.; Church, et Stev. Med. 
Bot., 1. t. 47.; Andr. Bot. Rep., 631.; Lodd. Bot. Cab., 928.; Plenck Icon., 341.; Mill, fig. 260. ; 
Lob. Icon., 151.; N. Du Ham., 7. t.4.; and our fig. 1008. 
beneath, shining and green above. Racemes simple and 
axillary, 5—6-flowered, shorter than the leaves. Leaves 
about 2 inches long. Flowers white. Drupe ovate 
globose. (Don’s Mill., iv. p.4.) A shrub or low tree, 
from 12 ft. to 15 ft. high; a native of Syria and the 
Levant. Introduced in 1597, and producing its flowers, 
which resemble those of the orange, but are smaller, in 
June and July. It is naturalised in hedges in some 
parts of Italy, particularly near Tivoli. It has been 
known in England since the time of Gerard, who had two 
small trees of it in his garden, “ the which,” he says, “ I 
have recovered of the seed.” As the plant does not 
grow very freely, except when placed against a wall, it & 
is not very common in collections, though it well merits” 
a place there, on account of the beauty of its pure white 
flowers, and the great profusion in which they are pro- 
duced. The finest specimen in the neighbourhood of London, and perhaps 
in Britain, is in the Chelsea Botanic Garden, where it is 12 ft. high, against 
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