Fig. 52. STYRAX OFFICINALIS, THE STORAX. 



PLANTS OF PALESTINE II. 



STORAX, RETAMA, AND ACACIA. 



CHAPTEE XVIII. 



" There is a lesson in each flower, 

 A story in each stream and bower. 

 On every herb on which you tread 

 Are written words which, rightly read, 

 Will lead you from earth's fragrant sod 

 To hope and holiness and God." 



ALLEN CUNNINGHAM. 



THE Storax or Styrax (Fig. 52), a beautiful flowering 

 shrub of Palestine, flourishes also on the western 

 Riviera, at the base of Mt. Condon, near La Farlede, 

 north of Hyeres. Moggridge gives an excellent picture 

 of this plant. It is well worth while, he says, to make 

 a journey to Hyeres in the month of May on purpose 

 to see the bushes of Styrax in full flower. When 



