STYKACEAE 277 



About 100 species in the warmer parts of Asia, Europe and America. 

 About 12 species in China, most of them shrubs. From Styrax benzoin 

 of the E. Indies, the fragrant resin benzoin is obtained. 



Styrax japonicus Siebold & Zuccarini. 



Shrub or tree up to 10 m. tall. Branchlets and leaves at first stellate 

 pubescent. Leaves oval, tapering at both ends, sometimes acuminate, 

 crenate serrate, dark glossy green, glabrous, 2.5-9 cm. long; petiole short. 

 Flowers white, 2 cm. in diameter, pendulous, in a few flowered raceme; 

 petals spreading, tomentose on the outside; calyx glabrous, with short 

 teeth, persistent under the fruit. Drupe oval, about 12 mm. long. 



Hupeh, Szechuan, Shantung to Korea and Japan. 



ALNIPHYLLUM 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, obscurely serrate, petiolate. 

 Flowers perfect, white or red, in racemes; calyx campanulate, 5 toothed, 

 tomentose; petals 5, connate at the base, oblong, elliptic, imbricate; 

 stamens 10, unequal, in 2 series, the filaments united below into a tube; 

 ovary partly inferior, 5 celled, ovate, tomentose; ovules 5-8 in each cell; 

 style slender, terminated by an obscurely 5 toothed stigma. Fruit an 

 oblong, woody capsule, dehiscent into 5 valves. 



3 species, 2 in Formosa, 1 in China. 



Alniphyllum fortunei (Hemsley) Perkins. 

 (Halesia fortunei Hemsley.) 



Shrub or tree to 10 m. tall, or taller. Leaves ovate to broadly ovate, 

 short acuminate, base rounded, remotely and regular or obscurely 

 serrate, dark green above, paler and slightly tomentose below, 8-13 cm. 

 long, 4.5-5.5 cm. wide; petiole 8-15 mm. long. Inflorescence many 

 flowered, racemose or paniculate; flowers Avhite, 2.5 cm. long; calyx 5 

 toothed, persistent; petals lanceolate-oblong. Capsule slightly 5 seeded, 

 dehiscent into 5 lobes, dark brown, oblong, beaked, about 2 cm. long. 

 Seeds numerous, irregularly winged, 6-10 mm. long. 



Fukien, Yunnan and Hupeh. 



