STYRACEA, 
SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 13 
SYMPLOCOS. 
FLowers regular, perfect, or rarely polygamous ; calyx 5-lobed, the lobes imbricated 
in estivation ; corolla gamopetalous, the lobes imbricated in estivation ; stamens indefi- 
nite, in several series; anthers innate ; disk 0; ovary inferior or partly superior, 2 to 
5-celled; ovules 2 or rarely 4 in each cell. 
alternate, simple, destitute of stipules. 
Symplocos, L’Héritier, Trans. Linn. Soe. i. 174 (1791). — 
Bentham, Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 225. — Meisner, Gen. 
250. — Endlicher, Gen. 744. — Bentham & Hooker, Gen. 
ii. 668. — Engler & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. pt. i. 168. — 
Baillon, Hist. Pl. xi. 461. 
Hugenioides, Linneus, £7. Zeylan. 192 (1747). 
Symplocos, Jacquin, Hist. Stirp. Am. 166 (1763). — Lin- 
nus, Gen. ed. 6, 272. — A. L. de Jussieu, Gen. 157. 
Bobu, Adanson, Fam. Pl. ii. 88 (1763). 
Hopea, Linneus, Mant. 14 (1767).— A. L. de Jussieu, 
Gen. 157. — Meisner, Gen. 250. 
Ciponima, Aublet, Pl. Guian. i. 566 (1775).— A. L. de 
Jussieu, Gen. 157. — Miers, Jour. Linn. Soc. xvii. 288. 
Alstonia, Linnzus, f. Suppl. 39 (1781). — A. L. de Jussieu, 
Gen. 157. 
? Drupatris, Loureiro, FT. Cochin. 314 (1790). 
? Decadia, Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 314 (1790). — Miers, Jour. 
Linn. Soc. xvii. 295. 
Dicalyx, Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 663 (1790). — Meisner, Gen. 
250. — Endlicher, Gen. 1018. — Miers, Jour. Linn. Soe. 
xvi. 296. 
Pladera, Roxburgh, FV. Ind. i. 416 (1820). 
Trees or shrubs, with scaly buds and fibrous roots. 
entire or dentate, usually becoming yellow in drying, and often possessing tinctorial properties. 
Fruit drupaceous or baccate. Leaves 
Sariava, Reinwardt, Syll. Ratisb. ii. 12 (1825). 
Mongezia, Vellozo, Fl. Flum. 229; Icon. v. t. 105, 106 
(1825). 
Barberina, Vellozo, Fl. Flum. 235 ; Icon. v. t. 117 (1825). — 
Endlicher, Gen. 1334. — Miers, Jour. Linn. Soc. xvii. 
292. 
Bobua, De Candolle, Prodr. iii. 23 (1828). — Meisner, Gen. 
110. — Endlicher, Gen. 1183. — Miers, Jour. Linn. Soe. 
xvii. 302. 
Stemmatosiphum, Pohl, Pl. Brasil. Icon. ii. 86 (1831). — 
Meisner, Gen. 250. 
Lodhra, Decaisne, Jacquemont Voy. iv. 103 (1847). — Mi- 
ers, Jour. Linn. Soc. xvii. 297. 
Cordyloblaste, Henschel, Bot. Zeit. 1848, 604. 
Carlea, Presl, Epimel. Bot. 216 (1850). 
Hypopogon, Turczaninow, Bull. Mosc. xxxi. pt. i. 246 
(1858). 
Chasseloupia, Vieillard, Bull. Soc. Linn. Normandie, x. 
101 (1866). 
Protohopea, Miers, Jour. Linn. Soc. xvii. 289 (1879). 
Preealstonia, Miers, Jour. Linn. Soc. xvii. 290 (1879). 
Palura, Miers, Jour. Linn. Soc. xvii. 297 (1879). 
Leaves alternate, coriaceous or membranaceous, 
Flow- 
ers yellow, white, or rarely rose-color, in dense or lax axillary spikes or racemes, sometimes reduced to 
few-flowered fascicles or to a single flower, the pedicels ebracteolate. Bracts usually small, caducous. 
Calyx campanulate, five-lobed, open in the bud, the tube adnate to the ovary, enlarging after anthesis. 
Corolla divided nearly or quite to the base, or with the divisions sometimes more or less united into a 
tube. Stamens numerous, in many series, inserted on the base of the corolla, or adnate to its tube; 
filaments filiform or flattened towards the base, free, or more or less united below into clusters or rarely 
into a tube projected above the corolla-tube; anthers oblong, innate, two-celled, the cells lateral, open- 
ing longitudinally. Ovary two to five-celled, contracted into a slender simple style tipped with an 
entire or slightly lobed stigma ; ovules two or rarely four in each cell, suspended from its inner angle, 
anatropous; raphe ventral; micropyle superior. Fruit crowned with the persistent lobes of the calyx, 
indehiscent, oblong, ovoid, or globose, drupaceous, with a dry or fleshy endocarp and a bony putamen, 
or sometimes baccate, usually one-seeded or with a solitary seed in each cell. Seed oblong, suspended ; 
