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and very acute. Ovary very hairy, 2-celled according to Champion, with 1 

 pendulous ovule in each ; I found, however, in the only female flower I could 

 examine, 4 cells with 1 ovule in each. Styles 2, united to the middle and 

 apparently undivided, but the summits were injured. Berry oblong, above 

 \ in. long, glabrous or liaiiy, with a single seed. 



In the Happy Valley woods, Champion ; also Wright. Not known out of the island. 



Order LXVIII. STYRACACE^. 



Calyx-tube usually more or less adherent ; the limb 5- or rarely 4-lobed. 

 Corolla deeply divided into as many lobes or rarely into twice as 'many, the 

 additional lobes forming an inner smaller series alternating with the outer 

 ones. Stamens usually indefinite, sometimes only twice as many or equal in 

 number to the corolla-lobes, attached in one or more series to the bfise or 

 within the tube of the corolla. Ovary more or less inferior or very rarely 

 quite superior, 2- to 5 -celled, with 2 or more ovules in each cell, either all 

 pendulous or the upper ones erect. Fruit more or less succulent and inde- 

 hiscent, or rarely opening in valves. Seed usually solitary, the embryo in the 

 axis of a fleshy albumen. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed, 

 without stipules. Flowers axillary, solitary or in simple or branched racemes. 



A'small Order, dispersed over the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Auierica, 

 with very few African species and one only extending into southern Eui'ope. 



Corolla-lobes much imbricate. Stamens indefinite. Anthers short. Ovules 



2 in each cell. Fruit inferior 1 . Symplocos. 



Corolla-lobes imbricate or valvate. Stamens 10. Anthers hnear. Ovules 



several in each cell. Fruit superior 2. Styeax. 



1. SYMPLOCOS, Linn. 



Calyx 5-lobed, adherent. Corolla 5-lobed or in some American spe- 

 cies 6- to 10-lobed, the lobes much imbricate in the bud. Stamens inde- 

 finite, usually more than 15 ; filaments filiform; anthers smaU, ovoid or glo- 

 bular. Ovary more or less inferior, 2- to 5 -celled, with 2 or very rarely 3 

 ovules in each ceU. Style filiform, entire or shortly lobed at the top. Beny 

 fi-om globular to oblong, crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes, usually with 

 1 or 2 seeds only. Embryo with a long radicle and very short cotyledons. — 

 Trees or shrubs, the specimens almost always taking a yellow tinge in drying. 

 Flowers small, in axillary racemes or clusters, each one solitary in the axil of 

 a small bract, with 2 bracteoles under the calyx. 



A considerable genus, common to the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and America. 

 Flowers in dense clusters, or in racemes not longer than the petioles. 

 Fruit ovoid or oblong. 



Clusters dense, quite sessile. Leaves veined. Ovary glabrous . . \. S. congesia. 



Racemes few-flowered, about as loug as the petiole. Leaves very co- 

 riaceous, scarcely veined. Ovary hairy at the top . . . . . 2. -S. crassifoJia. 

 Flowers in racemes (or loose spikes), longer than the petiole. Fruit 

 smaU, globular. 



Racemes simple 3. 5. microcarpa. 



Racemes branched 4. 5. spicafa. 



1 S. congesta, Benth., n. sp. An evergreen shrub, glabrous except a 



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