STYRAX 



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FIG. 469. Common White 

 Jasmine. 



what bell-shaped white flowers. The petals are somewhat united at base. 



The fruit is a one- or two-sided dry 



drupe -| to nearly 1 inch long in the 



different .species. All the species are 



loose and spreading in huliit. 



EKOAD-I.K.VVKD STOKAX (4(33) Sty- 

 rax Obassia has broad rounded 



abruptly sharp-pointer! leaves G to 10 



inches loni; with coarse notches beyond 



the middle. The fragrant drooping 



flowers are f inch long in clusters 5 to 7 



inches long. May. The pointed fruit is 



| inch knu. 



JAPANESE STORAX (464) Styrax 



jap6nica has smaller leaves, 1 to 3 



inches, and the smaller flowers, 



inch long, are in fewer (3- to 6-) 



flowered clusters, June, July. Both of 



these species from Japan form occa- 

 sionally small trees growing to the height of 30 feet. The other 



species, given below, are only shrubs usually less than 8 feet high. 



AMERICAN STORAX (405) Styrax 

 americana has small, 1 to 3 inches 

 long, slightly notched smooth leaves and 

 often solitary flowers in the axils, April 

 to June . The rounded fruit is only about 

 | inch in size. 



LARGE-LEAVED AMERICAN STORAX 

 Styrax grandifolia has large leaves, 2 

 to 6 inches long, with the lower surface 

 light colored and velvety with hairs, and 

 the fragrant flowers in loose clusters 3 

 to 6 inches long, May ; the individual 

 flowers are fully f inch long with broadly 

 spreading petals. 



CALIFORNIA STORAX Styrax califdr- 

 nica. The species so far described have 

 their petals almost always "> in number, 

 but this California species has 5 to 8 nar- 

 row petals forming blossoms f inch long. 

 April. The leaves are usually notched 

 species, but this has small, 1 to 2? 7 inches long, entire- 



[ Fresh seeds ; layers.] 



FIG. 470. Royal .Jasmine. 



in the other 

 edged leaves. 



