Styrax.'] xci. STYRACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 589 



A tree, sometimes 40 ft. high, or more often a shrub ; young branches stellately 

 pubescent. Leaves 3 by l in., often widest at or above the middle, base acute or 

 rounded on the same branch, glabrous, rarely setulose above, stellately pubescent and 

 soon glabrate beneath, chartaceous, prominently reticulate ; petiole in. Peduncles 

 axillary solitary, 2-3-fasciculate, or in small racemes, or (by the suppression of the 

 leaves) subpaniculately racemed 3-5 in. long at the ends of the branchlets ; pedicels 

 i in. Calyx (at flower time) in. broad, minutely 5-toothed or truncate. Corolla- 

 lobes elliptic, subacute, tomentose without, white. Filaments hairy, attached in. 

 above the corolla-base. Fruit ^ by ^ in., ellipsoid, white- or fulvous-tomentose ; 

 splitting up irregularly, calyx in fruit enlarged cupuliform | in. wide embracing the 

 lower quarter of the fruit. 



VAB. aqrestis ; calyx-tube brown-hirsute with spreading hairs. Cyrta agrestis, 

 Ham. in Wall. Cat. 4402. Sikkim, Bhotan and Assam. 



VAB. virgatum; leaves tapering acuminate usually widest below the middle, 

 flowering-calyx in. .wide, corolla ^-f in., segments wider. S. virgatum, Wall. 

 Cat. 4400 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 267; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 237, and 

 For. Fl. ii. 142. S. grandiflorum, Grif. Notul. iv. 267, and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 423. 

 From Sikkim and Bhotan to Pegu. Distrib. South China, Japan. S. japonicum, 

 Sieb. & Zucc. Fl. Jap. i. 53, t. 23, united with this in Bot. Mag. t. 5950, somewhat 

 differs in the glabrescent calyx and pinkish flowers. 



2. S. Kookeri, Clarke; leaves elliptic acuminate serrulate setulose on 

 the nerves above with scattered stellate hairs beneath, pedicels and calyx loosely 

 fulvous-tomentose, corolla ^-f in., style densely stellate-pubescent. Styrax sp., 

 Gamble Darjeeling last, 54. 



SIKKIM and BHOTAN; alt. 6-7000 ft., frequent, Hook.f., &c. 



Perhaps only an extreme form of 8. serrulatum, var. virgatum, but the flowers are 

 much larger sometimes 1 in. long ; the calyx at flower-time is more than % in. broad, 

 lax. Fruit as of S. serrulatum. 



3. S. ? crotonoides, Clarke ; leaves broad-oblong shortly acuminate at 

 both ends subentire coriaceous stellately pubescent beneath, fruit f by ellipsoid 

 indehiscent supported by a woody cupuliform calyx. Crotoni affinis sp., Wall. 

 Cat. 7848. 



SINGAPOBE; Wallich. 



Branches rusty-stellate-pubescent. Leaves 5 by 2 in., glabrous above, almost 

 tomentose, with very close rusty-stellate hairs beneath ; nerves 9 pairs, prominent 

 beneath ; petiole in. Fruits with hard white tomentum (ripe but broken up and 

 the seeds gone). This agrees, as to leaves and fruit, closely with 8. suberifolium 

 (Hk. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. 196, t. 40), but has much larger leaves and fruits. 



4. S. Benzoin, Dryand. in Phil. Trans. 1787, 308, t. 12 ; leaves elliptic 

 acuminate subentire closely stellately tomentose beneath, pedicels and calyx 

 closely white-tomentose, corolla in., style glabrous. Blume Bijd. 671 ; Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 416 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 261 ; Bentl. $ Trim. Med. PL iii. t. 169. 



MALACCA ; Griffith, Maingay. DISTBIB. Malaya. 



A small tree, resembling 8. serrulatum in the inflorescence and flowers. Fruit 

 ^ in. diam., globose, densely white tomentose. 



5. S. rug-osum, Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 51, and For. Fl. ii. 

 141 ; leaves elliptic acuminate serrulate densely stellately white-tomentose 

 beneath, pedicels and calyx roughly tomentose, corolla f in., style stellately 

 tomentose at base. 



MABTABAN ; alt. 4-6000 ft., Brandts. 



A tree; branchlets floccosely rusty-tomentose. Leaves 3 by l in., base obtuse, 

 stellately pubescent or finally glabrous above, coriaceous, reticulate beneath, ; petiole 

 | in. Flowers axillary, and quasi-racemed towards the ends of the branches, pen- 



