SYMPLOCINEjE. I. SYMPLOCOS. STYRACINE^E. 



a minute fluted pitcher ; when bored they are strung like beads, 

 and bv the natives put round the necks of their children, to 

 prevent evil. The nuts only of Nageia putranjh-a, are em- 

 ployed in the same manner and for the same end. 



/r. p ; platistachya (Wall. cat. no. 4428.) spikes compound, 

 downy. J; . S. Native of Silhet. 



6/>fcate-flowered Symplocos. Tree or shrub. 



22 S. RACEHOSA (Roxb. fl. ind. 2. p. 539.) leaves oblong, gla- 

 brous, serrulated ; racemes axillary, generally simple ; nut 3- 

 celled. Jj . S. Native of Burdwan and Midnapore, in Bengal. 

 The Sanscrit name of the tree is Savura and Lodhra, and the 

 Bengalee one Lodh. Myrtus, Retz, obs. 4. p. 26. Leaves 

 2-6 inches long. Flowers yellow. The bark of this tree is in 

 request among dyers of red in Calcutta, and is met with in the 

 markets of that town for a trifling price. It seems to be used 

 as a mordaunt only to dye with Mungeet (a species of Rubia), 

 in which the bark called Lodh is an ingredient. For three yards 

 of cloth take Lodh and the bark of Bvra Hur (Terminalia Che- 

 bula) of each one chatuk, or two ounces, pound them together, 

 and mix them with water, and steep the cloth in it ; then dry it. 

 Take one chatuk of alum, dissolve it in water, and boil it ; put 

 the cloth into this solution, and let it boil for an hour, then wash 

 and dry it. Then take^/ ( Morinda tinctbria) one chatuk, Dhawra 

 flowers (Grislea lomentbsa) one chatuk, Mungeet half a seer 

 (nearly a pound), separately mix them with lukewarm water, and 

 boil it. Then put in the cloth and let it boil for 40 minutes. 

 Aboor, the red powder used by the natives during the Hoolee 

 holidays, is made about Kheerpaee of the bark of this tree. 



Racemose- flowered Symplocos. Tree 20 feet. 



23 S. CAUDA'TA (Wall. cat. no. 4413.) leaves lanceolate, or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, tapering to both ends, long-acuminated, obso- 

 letely denticulated ; racemes simple, axillary, downy ; calyx 

 minute. fj . S. Native of Silhet. 



TVjjV-leaved Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 



24 S. LU'CIDA (Wall. cat. no. 4414.) leaves smooth, shining 

 on both surfaces, coriaceous, elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate, 

 entire at the base, and serrated from below the middle, 

 acuminated ; racemes downy, branched. Jj . S. Native of the 

 East Indies. 



iSAinin^-leaved Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 



25 S. PYRIFOUA (Wall. cat. no. 4415.) leaves elliptic or ob- 

 long, acuminated, shining, coriaceous, entire, or denticulated 

 towards the tops ; racemes simple, slender, glabrous, twice the 

 length of the petioles. J? . S. Native of Silhet. 



Pear-leared Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 



26 S. LAVR'IXA (Wall. cat. no. 4416.) leaves oblong or elliptic, 

 acuminated, denticulated, shining, smooth ; racemes simple or 

 branched at the base, downy. (; . S. Native of the East 

 Indies. Myrtus laurina, Herb. madr. Eugenia laurina, Rottl. 

 herb. 



Laurel-like Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 



27 S. HAMILTONIA'NA (Wall. cat. no. 4420.) leaves elliptic- 

 lanceolate or oblong, repandly denticulated ; racemes simple, 

 downy, Tj . S. Native of the East Indies. Decadia racemosa, 

 Hamilt. herb. 



Hamilton's Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 



28 S. RI'GIDA (Wall. cat. no. 4422.) leaves oblong, coriaceous, 

 stiff, quite entire, or repand, obtuse ; racemes long, downy, 

 simple, or branched at the base. Ij . S. Native of the Burman 

 empire, at Moalmeyne. 



Stiff Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 



29 S. POLYCA'RPA (Wall. cat. no. 4423.) leaves elliptical, acu- 

 minated, repandly denticulated ; spikes compound. Ij . S. 

 Native of the East Indies, at Amherst and Tavoy. 



Many-fruited Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 



30 S. OBTU'SA (Wall. cat. no. 4424.) leaves coriaceous, quite 



entire, oblong-obovate, obtuse, tapering to the base, shining ; 

 spikes simple ; lobes of calyx rounded, imbricate, obtuse, fj .S. 

 Native of the East Indies, on the Neelgherry mountains. 

 Blunt-leaved Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 



31 S. RAMOSISSIMA (Wall. cat. no. 4425.) leaves membranous, 

 elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminated, denticulated ; racemes 

 axillary and lateral, simple and compound, fj . S. Native of 

 Nipaul, on Sheopore. 



Much-branched Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 



32 S. ADENOPHY'LLA (Wall. cat. no. 4427.) leaves coriaceous, 

 lanceolate, tapering to both ends, long-acuminated, usually quite 

 entire ; racemes compound, downy. Fj . S. Native of Penang. 



Gland-leaved Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 



33 S. MOLLIS (Wall. cat. no. 4433.) branches, racemes, pe- 

 tioles, and nerves of leaves on the under surface clothed with 

 rusty hairs ; leaves elliptic, acuminated, quite entire ; spikes 

 compound. I? . S. Native of Penang. 



Soft Symplocos. Shrub or tree. 



SECT. III. PALC'RA (meaning unknown to us). Corolla 5- 

 parted. Stamens disposed in a triple series. Ovarium inferior. 

 Species natives of Nipaul and China. 



34 S. SINI'CA (Ker. bot. reg. 

 710.) leaves elliptic-oblong, at- 

 tenuated at both ends, mucro- 

 nately serrated, downy on both 

 surfaces and wrinkled ; racemes 

 compound, terminal, and axil- 

 lary ; calycine segments acumin- 

 ated. >j.H. Native of China. 

 Flowers white, (fig. 1.) 



Chinese Symplocos. Fl. May. 

 Clt. 1 822. Shrub 3 feet. 



35 S. CRATJEGOIDES (Hamilt. 

 mss. ex D. Don, prod. fl. nep. 

 p. 145.) leaves ovate, acute, ser- 

 rated, villous beneath as well as 

 on the branches ; panicles race- 

 mose, terminal, villous ; calycine 

 segments roundish, membranous. 



FIG. 1. 



. G. Native of Nipaul, in 



the Great Valley, near the town of Thankot. S. paniculata, 

 Wall. Palura odorata, Hamilt. mss. Flowers white, fragrant. 

 This shrub hardly belongs to Symplocos, and has the habit of 

 Prunus Mahabeb. 



Han-thorn-like Symplocos. Tree or shrub. 



Cult. The species of Symplocos grow well in a mixture of 

 loam, sand, and peat ; and cuttings of them strike readily in 

 sand, under a hand-glass ; those of the tropical kinds in heat. 



ORDER CXLI. STYRACI'NE-S: (this order only contains 

 the genus Slyrax). Styraceae, part. Richard, ann. du fruct. 

 1808. Styracineae, part. Rich, in H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. 

 amer. 3. p. 256. Guiacanae part. Juss. gen. 156. 



Calyx permanent, campanulate, 5-toothed (f. 2. a.). Corolla 

 monopetalous, funnel-shaped ; deeply 3-7-cleft, but usually 5 or 

 6-cleft, valvate in aestivation. Stamens 1 0, exserted ; filaments 

 monadelphous at the base, adnate to the tube of the corolla ; 

 anthers linear, 2-celled, dehiscing lengthwise inside. Ova- 

 rium superior, 3-celled, many-ovulate, erect. Style 1 (f. 26.). 

 Stigma obsoletely 3-lobed. Drupe nearly dry, containing a 

 1 -celled, 1-3-seeded nut. Testa of seed double; inner cob- 

 webbed, outer spongy. Embryo inverted, with elliptic coty- 

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