Symplocos.'] xci. STYRAOE^:. (C. B. Clarke.) 573 



* Embryo curved (in several not knoivri). 



1. S. cratBBgroides, Ham. ms. ; Don Prodr. 145; leaves broadly elliptic 

 closely sharply serrulate towards the acuminate apex, cyme elongate compound 

 subpanicled, disc glabrous. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 258 ; Brand. For. Fl. 299 ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 147, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 239. S. paniculata, 

 Wall. Cat. 4429. Lhodra cratsegoides, Dene in Jacq. Voy. Sot. 103, t. 110. 

 Griff. Itin. Notes 163, n. 839. 



HIMALAYA ; alt. 2-8000 ft. ; from Kashmir to Bhotan ; common. KHASIA ; alt. 

 3-5000 ft. ; common. MARTABAN ; Nattoung Hills (Kurz}. DISTRIB. Japan. 



A tree, 40 ft., or shrub. Leaves 2 by \-\\ in., varying from lanceolate acuminate to 

 broadly obovate-ellipticsubobtuse, teeth sometimes nearly obsolete, usually softly pilose 

 beneath, at least on the midrib, sometimes glabrous ; reticulating nerves prominent 

 beneath ; petiole \ in. Panicles 1-5 in., hairy, glabrescent or glabrous ; lateral branches 

 distinct, cymosely many-flowered, or with few longer-pedicelled flowers ; bracts small, 

 linear, caducous. Calyx-tube obconic, glabrous, or sparse^ pilose or densely hirsute ; 

 teeth small obtuse, or lanceolate subacute, glabrous ciliate or pilose. Corolla - in. 

 Stamens 20-60. Fruit ^^ in., obliquely ovoid or obovoid, calyx-rim small, very 

 much narrower than the fruit. Most variable : the typical North-west form (described 

 by Brandis) has a glabrous calyx-tube with short obtuse teeth ; while Griffith's n. 

 306 (from Khasia) has densely hairy calyx-tube and long calyx-teeth. The fruits 

 vary so greatly in form and size that Thomson (erroneously) regarded some as insect- 

 injured. 



2. S. spicata, Roxb. Hort. Beny. 40, and Fl. Ind. ii. 541 ; leaves broadly 

 lanceolate acute serrulate glabrous, flowers sessile in long-branched spikes, disc 

 glabrous. Wall. Cat. 4417 ; Brand. For. Fl. 300 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 146, and 

 in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 239. S. polycarpa, Wall Cat. 4423 ; A. DC. 

 Prodr. viii. 255; Kurz II. c. S. Loha, Don Prodr. 144; A. DC. I.e. S. 

 racernosa, Wall. Cat. 4418, in part, not of Roxb. 



NORTH and EAST INDIA ; near the base of the hills, alt. 0-4000 ft. ; from 

 Kumaon to Bhotan, Assam and Martaban ; common. DISTRIB. China, Japan, 

 Australia ?. 



A small tree. Leaves 5 by 2 in., base cuneate; nerves distant, not prominent 

 beneath, parallel ; petiole 5- in. Spikes 2-4 in., often tripartite below, sometimes 

 panicled, glabrous or obscurely rusty-pubescent ; flowers all closely sessile, the de- 

 pressed ovary and short calyx-tube embraced by the 3 persistent small ovate obtuse 

 bracteoles. Calyx-lobes ^ in., round, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Petals in. 

 Stamens about 40. Fruit in. diam., subsymmetric, ribbed (or smooth), globose, 

 surmounted by a very short cylindric tube ; calyx-rim as wide as the tube. Wallich's 

 8. polycarpa only differs in the larger leaves ; Kurz separates it by the smooth, not 

 ribbed fruit ; but the fruit is distinctly ribbed in Wallich's polycarpa. The whole of 

 this series of S. spicata type is readily distinguished by the long branches of the 

 spike, with small distant flowers and very depressed ovaries. 



VAR. laurina, "Wall. Cat. 4416 (sp.) ; spikes shorter fulvous subtomentose or 

 hirsute, flowers rather larger densely crowded, ovary less depressed. S. spicata, 

 A. DC. Prodr. viii. 254; Wight III. t. 150; Thwaites Enum. 154; Bedel. For. Man. 

 149. S. flavida and S. Loha, Miq. in PI. HohenacJc. p. 1053, 1054. Myrtus laurina, 

 Retz Obs. iv. 26. Eugenia laurina, Wittd. Sp. PL ii. 967. Bobua laurina, DC. 

 Prodr. iii. 24. Hopea spicata, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 140. W. side of the Deccan 

 Peninsula and Ceylon ; alt. 2-7000 ft, very common. (Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 62.) 



VAR. attenuata, Wall. Cat. 4426 (sp.); leaves long-attenuate at the base, spikes 

 shorter tripartite or simple, fruits smaller often only in. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 256. 

 Khasia ; alt. 3-6000 ft., common, Hills of British Birma, Kurz. 



YAR. malasica ; leaves less coriaceous, secondary nerves prominent, flowers less 

 closely sessile, ovary not depressed, calyx-lobes oblong prominent above the bracteoles. 

 Malay Peninsula, common ; Maingay, n. 957, &c. This is not exactly S. Stawellii, 

 F. Muell. Fraam. Phyt. Austr. v. 60, which has the flowers more distinctly pedicelled, 

 and is more like the Ceylon S. laurina. 



