SYMPLOCOS.] STORAGE 'JE. 19 



Dehra Dun, usually in swampy ground or beside streams ; Sub-Hima- 

 layan tracts eastwards from Dehra Dun ; also in Bundelkhand. Flowers 

 March to May and the fruit ripens during the cold season. DISTBIB. 

 Throughout the greater part of India, but not found in Assam, E, 

 Bengal, Pegu, nor in the drier tracts of Bombay, the Punjab and Sindh. 

 This is a very handsome tree at all times, but especially so when the 

 young crimson foliage appears amongst the olrler dirk-green leaves. 

 The viscid pulp of the fruit is used in bookbinding, and instead of tar 

 for caulking the seams of boats. Fishing nets and lines are said to be 

 rendered more durable after being steeped in an infusion of the astrin- 

 gent fruit. The unripe fruit and bark are used medicinally. 



LXVIII. -ST YRACEJE. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, exstinulate. Flowers 

 regular, hermaphrodite (in the Indian species), usually white, arranged 

 in axillary or terminal, simple or compound racemes or spikes ; bracts 

 small or obsolete. Calyx campanulale, tube more or less adnate to 

 the ovary ; limb 5 (rarely 4)-Jobed, or truncate, persistent. Corolla 

 usually 5-partite ; segments almost free, imbricate (in the Indian 

 species). Stamens adnate to the petals, twice as many or indefinite, 

 those of the outer series longer, filaments free or connate, anthers 

 round or linear. Ovary more or less inferior, 2-5-celled, style fili- 

 form or rather thick ; stisrma capitate, entire or obscurely lobed ; 

 ovules 2, pendulous from the inner angle of each cell. Fruit drupa- 

 ceous, 1 (rarely 2-3)-seeded. Seeds albuminous, embryo straight or 

 curved. Species about 350, found in the warmer regions of Asia, 

 Australia and America. 



1. SYMPLOCOS, Linn. ; PL Brit. Ind. iii, 572. 



This genus may easily be distinguished from all the other genera 

 of Styracece by having numerous stamens arranged in many series. 

 Species upwards of 280, in the warmer regions of Asia, Australia and 

 America, 



Flowers white, distinctly pedicelled . . I. 8. cratcegoides. 

 Flowers yellow, sessile or nearly so . .2. 8. racemosa. 



1. S. crataegoides, Buch.-Ham. ex Do* Prod. 145 ; BrandisFor. Fl. 299 ; 

 p. B. I. Hi, 573; Watt E. D.; A. Brand. (Symploc.) in Engl. Pflanzenreich 

 33 / Kanjildl For. Fl. Sch. Circ. N. W. P. 223 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Tinib. 

 464 ; Collett FL Siml. 305. S. paniculata, Wall. ; Royle III. 261. Lodbra 

 cratsegoides, Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 103, 1. 110.- Vern. Lodh., ludh. 



