572 



xc. EBENACE^;. (C. B. Clarke.) 



[Diospyros. 



VAR. andamanica, Kurz ; leaves oblong to narrow-oblong, lateral nerves faint and 

 numerous, reticulation more lax. 'Andamans ; Kure. Not seen, and for the present 

 exceedingly obscure ; for Kurz 1. c. adds " the Andaman tree, I hare little doubt, is a 

 different species " (i.e. from the Sumatran), " but the material is too incomplete for 

 description." 



D. ROYLEI, Wall. Cat. 4134 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 239. There is no specimen of 

 this in Wallich's herbarium. 



D. VENOSA, Wall. Cat. 4126; leaves alternate elliptic shortly acuminate glabrous, 

 female flowers in subsessile clusters 1-3 together, bracts in. ovate. Anonacea?, 

 Hiern in Trans, Camb. Phil. Soc. xii. 271. Penang; Wallich. 



The single fruiting calyx (not perhaps the normal form) on Wallich's specimen is 

 3-lobed, but the young fruit in it is globose, undivided, and can hardly be Anonaceous. 

 The specimen might be D. undulata or some closely allied species. 



ORDEK XCI. STYR ACEJE. (By C. B. Clarke.) 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, exstipulate. Flowers hermaphrodite (in 

 the Indian species), in axillary and terminal simple or compound racemes or 

 spikes, sometimes solitary, white, rarely rose ; bracts small. Calyx campanulate, 

 superior or inferior, limb 5-4-toothed or truncate, persistent. Petals 5-4, free 

 or united into a short (rarely long) tube, imbricated (in the Indian species). 

 Stamens adnate to the petals, 8-10 or very many ; filaments free or connate ; 

 anthers round or linear, dehiscing laterally. Ovary inferior or superior, 2-5- 

 celled, or (by the early separation of the septa) 1-celled ; style filiform ; stigma 

 small or capitate ; ovules 1 or few on the inner angle of each cell, pendulous 

 or erect. Fruit drupaceous, 1-seeded, less often 2-3-seeded. Seeds albuminous ; 

 embryo straight or curved. Species 220, in the warmer regions of Asia, 

 Australia and America ; not known in Africa. 



Stamens many, in several series 1. SYMPLOCOS. 



Stamens 10, in 1 series 2. STYBAX. 



1. SY1KFX.OCOS, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs ; often drying yellow. Leaves alternate, toothed or entire. 

 Racemes or spikes axillary, simple or compound, sometimes reduced to a single 

 flower ; bracts usually solitary at the base of each pedicel, caducous ; brac- 

 teoles 3-1, small, at the base of the flower. Flowers white (in S. rosea, rose), 

 hermaphrodite (in the Indian species). Calyx-tube adnate ; lobes 5, small, 

 imbricate. Petals (in the Indian species) 5, imbricate, free or obscurely connate, 

 more rarely connate into a tube. Stamens numerous, in several series, adnate 

 to the corolla -tube, usually throughout its length, and in a few species in a 

 tube beyond it; anthers shortly-oblong, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary in- 

 ferior (in the Indian species), 3-, rarely 2- or 4-celled ; style filiform, stigma 

 small capitate sub-3-lobed ; ovules 2, pendulous from the inner angle of 

 each cell. Drupe ellipsoid, endocarp usually woody, 1-3-seeded. Seeds oblong, 

 straight or less often curved ; embryo terete, axile, straight or curved. Dis- 

 TRIB. Species 160, in the tropics of Asia, Australia and America. 



SUBMENUS I. Kopea (Species 1 to 59). Petals free or connate only at the 

 very base, spreading ; buds subglobose. Filaments slender, more or less united 

 to the corolla, not forming a tube distinct from the corolla. Embryo straight, 

 or curved. The curvem%|ose species constitute the section Palura, not 

 adopted here, the embryo being unknown in many species. 



SECT. 1. Racemes or spikes (at least some of them) compound. (See also 

 12. & racemosa var., and 51. S. angustata). Species 1 to 11. 



