593 a 



styracacej;. 



[Peiugynous Exogbns. 



with a superior radicle directed to the hilum. 

 • »f the same characters. The plants consti- 

 tuting this group, hitherto placed in Styracese, 

 will be seen to differ widely from that family 

 in many essential particulars, as is shown else- 

 where. If we except the cohesion of the 

 calyx with the ovarium in the one case, and 

 the presence of the scale-like expansions of 

 the petals in the other, little difference in 

 other respects will be found to exist between 

 them and Erythroxylaceaj, which, as in Sym- 

 plocaceae, are distinguished by stamens gene- 

 rally multiples of the petals, and placed upon 

 a free h ypogynous ring, a 8 or 5-locular ovary 

 with suspended ovules, single suspended albu- 

 minous seeds with the radicle next the hilum. 

 They have also short axil- 

 lary racemes growing oi.t 

 of numerous scale-like 

 bracts, and each flown* 

 is articulated on its pedi- 

 cel. By Barberina and 

 they 

 the 



With the Sapotaceae it agrees in many 



through Balanites 

 osculate towards 

 Aquifoliacea;. 



Fig CCCCII. bis. 



GENERA. 



' Symplocos, Jacq 

 Alstonia, Lin. 

 Ciponima, AuM 



Stemmatosipfion, Pohl. 

 [Mongczia, Fl. Flum.J 

 Hopea,Zin?t. 



Bobua, Adans. 



Palura, Ham. 



Barberina. Fell. 



Epigenia, Veil. 

 Sympleura, Miers. 

 Scyrtocarpus, Miers 



" Numbers. Gen. 5. Sp. 



Erythroxylacece. 

 " Position. — Sapotaceae.— Symplocace^;. — Ebenaeca*. 



A quifoliaceoi. 



" Trees 



" STYRACE^E. 

 or Shrubs usually clothed with stellate tomentum ; leaves altex*nate, entire. 



exstipulate : inflorescence 

 axillary or terminal, soli- 

 tary, or in few-flowered 

 racemes or panicles : flow- 

 er bracteated : calyx tubu- 

 lar, quite free, with an 

 almost entire border in- 

 creasing and half enclos- 

 ing the fruit : petals 5, 

 with valvate aestivation, 

 sometimes united at base 

 by the cohesion of the 

 staminiferoua ring : sta- 

 mens either equal in num- 

 ber to the petals, and then 

 alternate with them, or 

 twice or treble the number, 

 and then always in a single 

 series ; anthers linear-ob- 

 long, nearly the length of 

 the broad filaments to 

 which they are adnate, and 

 which are conjoined toge- 

 Fi.„'. CCCCII. ler. ther at base into a short 



Fig. CCCCII. bis. — Symplocos laxifloza. 1. expanded flower ; 2. corolla cut open ; 3. a stamen; 

 4. longitudinal section of ovary ; 5. transverse ditto ; 6. ripe fruit ; 7. longitudinal section of ditto— 

 from a sketch by Mr. Mh rs. 



Fig. CCCCII. h r. — Styrax leiophylla. 1. a flower natural size ; 2. ditto cut open; 3. stamen seen 

 in front ; 4. ovary, with half the calyx removed ; 5. longitudinal section of ovary ; 6. transverse 

 ditto ; 7. ripe fruit ; 8. longitudinal section of seed— -from a sketch by Mr. Miers. 



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