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longo, ovata vel late ovata vel ovato-oblonga, 6 — io cm longa, 3 — 7,5 cm lata, basi 

 rotundata vel cuneata, apice longe angusteque acuminata, apice ipso acuta, interdum 

 inaequabilia, membranacea, integra, juniora utrinque ad costam atque venas subferru- 

 gineo-stellato-tomentosa, ceterum hie illic pilis stellatis instrusta, adulta utrinque ad 

 costam hie illic pilos stellatos gerentia, ceterum glabrescentia, nervis venisque supra 

 paullo, subtus manifeste prominentibus, nervis lateralibus 7—8. Inflorescentia racemosa 

 vel paniculata^ axillaris vel terminalis, multiflora, 7 — 4 2 cm longa; rhachis inflores- 

 centiae griseo-flaveseenti-stellato-tomentosa; bracteae lineales, 2,5 mm longae, caducae, 

 tomentosae; bracteolae minutissimae, tomentosae, mox caducae; flores <2 mm longi, 

 pedicello 5 — \0 mm longo, griseo-flavescenti-tomentoso ; calyx cupuliformis, 4 — 5 mm 

 longus, 4 mm latus, membranaeeus, truncatus, margine minute 5-denticulatus, extus 

 breviter adpresse griseo-flavescenti-stellato-tomentosus; corolla 5-partita, tubo 3 mm 

 longo, glabro, lobis multo breviore, lobis in aestivatione imbricatis, membranaceis, ob- 

 longis vel ovato-oblongis, 7,5 mm longis, 3,5 mm latis, apice acutis, utrinque adpresse 

 flavescenti-stellato-pilosiusculis; stamina 1 0, imae corollae adnata, filamentis parte libera 

 planis, flavescenti-pilosis , antherae lineales, margine hie illic pilis stellatis vestitae; 

 ovarium obovoideum, parce inferum, 3- vel interdum imperfecte 4-loculare (ex de Vriese), 

 extus flavescenti-pilosum, multiovulatum , Stylus glaber, elongatus, stigmate obtuso vix 

 distincto terminatus. Nee fruetus vidi neque semina. 



Südvi^estmalayische Provinz: Sumatra: Distrikt Tobing, Batakländer, in den 

 Wäldern der Gebirge 1000 m ü. M. (Junghuhn). 



83. St. japonicus Sieb, et Zuee. Fl. japon. I. (1835) 53, t. 23; A. DC. in DC Prodr. 

 VIII. (184 4) 266; Miq. in Ann. Mus. lugd. bat. III. (1867) 101; Franch. et Savat. I. (1875) 

 309; Gard. Chron. (1885) II. 745 fig. 166; Gartenflora (1887) 360, fig. 89; Dippel, 

 Handb. Laubholzkunde I. (1889) 318, fig. 207; Hemsley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. (1889) 

 76; Koehne, Deutsch. Dendrol. (1893) 485; Regel, Gartenfl. XVII. (I868) t. 583; Engl. u. 

 Prantl, Pflzfam. IV. 1. (1891) 178, fig. 92 d. — Styrax sen'ulatus Roxb. in Bot. Magaz., 

 t. 5950. — Styrax seminatum Farges in Vilmorin et Bois, Fruticetum Vilmorinianum (1904) 

 181. — Gyrta japonica Miers, Contrib. Bot. I. (1851 — 1861) 182. — Frutex 1,3 — 2 m 

 altus; rami subteretes, glabri, cortice cinereo-fuseeseente vestiti, ligno tenaci duro albido; 

 folia alterna, petiolata, petiolo 5 — 10 mm longo, superne canaliculato, pilis stellatis bre- 

 vissimis passim adsperso, ovata vel obovata vel rarius subrhombea vel obovato-oblonga, 

 2 — 8 cm longa, 1 — 4 cm lata, basi plerumque cuneata interdum rotundata, apice 

 acuta vel acuminata, apice ipso acutiuseula, membranacea vel subpapyracea , circiter a 

 medio apieem versus distinete minute denticulata vel interdum inegra, utrinque glabra 

 vel juniora subtus praecipue pilis stellatis minutissimis aspersa, nervis venisque supra 

 pauce, subtus manifeste prominentibus, nervis lateralibus 7 — 8. Flores suaveolentes in 

 raeemos simplices 4 — 6-floros seeundos nutantes ramulos laterales novellos, racemo 

 addito 3 — 8 cm longo, terminantes dispositi; pedunculi uniflori elongati, 2,5 — 3 cm 

 longi, nudi, subfiliformes, ad ealycem parum inerassati, glabri; bracteae bracteolaeque 

 minulae, glabrae, mox caducae, lineales, sessiles; flores lactei, 1 — 2 cm longi; calyx 

 cupuliformis, 4 — 6 mm altus, 3 — 5 mm latus, membranaeeus, extus glaber vel hie 

 illic pilis stellatis vestitus, margine truncatus brevissime dentatus; corolla 5-partita, 

 tubo 3 — 5 mm alto, lobis multo breviore, lobis in aestivatione imbricatis, ovato- vel 

 obovato-laneeolatis , 11 — 14 mm longis, 3,5—5 mm latis, utrinque pilis minutissimis 

 stellatis dense obsitis; slamina 10, 5 exteriora cum corollae lobis alternantia parum 

 breviora (in alabastris), filamentis parle libera planis, basi griseo-pilosis, sursum glabris; 

 antherae filamento continuae ereetae (effoetae vario modo curvatae), lineales, flavae (ex 

 Sieb, et Zuee.), margine pilis stellatis sparsim vestitae; ovarium superum liberum, 

 ovato-globosum, multiovulatum, pilis stefiatis dense obsitum, triloculare, Stylus glaber, 

 staminibus longior, sursum subtrigonus. Fructus ovoideus vel ovoideo-ellipticus, circiler 

 1,4 cm longus, verlice rotundatus, stylo basi persistente breviter mucronatus, calyce 

 persistente, extus brevissime dense flavescenti-pilosus , post maturitatem ab apice ad 

 basin 3-valvatim dehiscens; semen unicum, erectum, obovato-ellipticum ; albumen carnosum, 



