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STY RAX 



that species are rounder, more coarsely toothed, and much more downy 

 beneath, and the bud is enclosed by the base of the leaf-stalk. 



STYRAX HEMSLEYANUM. 



S. JAPONICUM, Siebold. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 5950 (wrongly as S. serrulatum).) 



A small deciduous tree, 10 to 25 ft. high, of very graceful habit; the 

 branches slender, sometimes drooping; young shoots at first furnished with 

 scattered tufts of down, which soon falls away. Leaves usually oval, tapering 

 about equally at both ends, I to 3^ ins. long, \ to i^ ins. wide; but occasion- 

 ally obovate or even roundish; margins set with minute, shallow, distant 

 glandular teeth; dark glossy green above, smooth on both surfaces except 

 for tufts of down in the vein-axils; stalk \ in. or less long. Flowers pure 

 white, perfectly pendulous, f in. diameter, borne on short lateral shoots 

 carrying about three leaves and three to five blossoms; each flower on a 

 smooth slender stalk, I to i| ins. long. Corolla of five pointed divisions, 

 which are united near the base, f in. long, downy outside. Calyx smooth, 

 funnel-shaped, \ in. long, persisting at the base of the roundish, egg-shaped 

 fruit, which is \ in. long. 



Native of Japan and Corea ; introduced to Kew by Richard Oldham in 

 1862. It is a small tree of singular grace and beauty, very hardy, but 



