Symplocos.] L. STYRACE.E. 299 



lobes as the calyx, or rarely twice as many, imbricate or valvate in the 

 bud. Stamens usually indefinite, epipetalous, attached in one or more 

 series to the corolla-tube. Ovary more or less inferior, 2-5-celled, with 

 2 or more ovules in each cell ; style undivided ; stigma capitate, entire 

 or lobed. Fruit generally indehiscent. Seed usually 1, the embryo in 

 the axis of a fleshy albumen. Eoyle 111. 260 ; Wight 111. ii. 149. 



1. SYMPLOCOS, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs with yellow, white, rarely pink flowers. Leaves often 

 turning yellow in drying. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes generally ciliate. Corolla- 

 lobes imbricate in the bud, the petals sometimes almost free. Stamens 

 more than twice the number of corolla-lobes. Fruit a berry crowned by 

 the calyx-lobes. Cotyledons shorter than radicle. 



Flowers pedicellate ; pedicels as long as, or longer than 

 calyx ; leaves membranous or subcoriaceous. 

 Flowers in terminal panicles ; fruit ovoid, or nearly 



globose . . . . . . . . 1. S. cratcegoides. 



Flowers in short lateral racemes mostly below the 



leaves, on the previous year's wood ; fruit ovoid . 2. S. ramosisshna. 

 Flowers sessile or nearly sessile; in compound axillary 

 spikes ; leaves coriaceous. 

 Fruit pitcher-shaped ; calyx and ovary glabrous . . 3. S. spicata. 

 Fruit ovoid or cylindrical ; calyx ciliate, ovary hairy . 4. S. racemosa. 



1. S. cratsegoides, Hamilton; Don Prod. Fl. Nepal. 145. Syn. & 

 paniculata, Wall. ; Lodhra cratcegoides, Decaisne in Jacq. Voy. Sot. t. 



110. Vern. Lu, laudar, loj, losh, Pb. ; Lodh, Kamaon; Ludh, Jaunsar 

 Bawar. 



A large shrub or moderate-sized tree, young shoots and leaves pilose. 

 Leaves membranous, elliptic or ovate, acuminate, 2-4 in. long, sharply ser- 

 rate, on short petioles, turning yellow in drying. Flowers fragrant, snow- 

 white, in cymose corymbs forming terminal panicles, pedicels slender, 

 as long as flowers, bracts linear caducous. Calyx turbinate, tube 

 glabrous, lobes rounded, ciliate. Corolla 5-cleft nearly to the base. 

 Stamens numerous, filaments filiform, connate in 5 bundles. Ovary 2- 

 celled ; stigma capitate, papillose. Fruit ovoid or nearly globose, J-J in. 

 long, crowned with the remains of calyx-limb, 1-seeded, embryo curved, 

 cylindrical. 



Himalaya 3000-8000 ft., from near the Indus to Assam. Scarce near its 

 north-west limit. Kasia hills. The new foliage appears in May, and soon 

 afterwards the tree is covered with a profusion of snow-white blossoms, which 

 scent the air to some distance, and turn yellow in drying. Fr. July-Oct. 

 Attains 30 ft., with a straight trunk 3-4 ft. girth. Young bark cinereous with 

 large lenticels. Old bark grey, brownish, or dark bluish, rough. Wood white, 

 hard, durable, has been recommended for turning. A yellow dye is extracted 

 from leaves and bark, which is used to mix with madder. 



2. S. ramosissima, Wall. ; DC. Prodr. viii. 257. Vern. Lodh. 



A small glabrous tree. Leaves membranous, 4-6 in. long, lanceolate, 



