278 Mr. J. Miei's on the Styracese, 



adhsesione filamentorum breviter subconnata, sestivatione val- 

 vata, marginibus subinvolutis. Stamina 10, uniserialia, evecta, 

 petalis sequilonga ; fikanenta linearia, angusta, complanata, 

 pilosa, cum petalis orta, et ad eorundem basin breviter et laxe 

 cobgerentia, in sestivatione repbeata ; antherm bueares, 2-lobEe, 

 lobis parabebs ad filameutum angustiorem dorso adnatis et 

 duplo vel triplo brevioribus, sajpe stellatim pilosis, antrorsum 

 longitudinaliter debiscentibus. Ovarium omuino superum, 

 turbinatum, summo depressum, imo 10-sulcatum, ealyee 

 quadruple brevius, tomentosum, 1-loculare, interne carinis 3 

 prominulis parietalibus e placenta libera brevi centrali orienti- 

 bus, bine brevissime pseudo-3-locellatum j ovula pauca, e basi 

 erecta, in tubereulis totidem placentfe sessa. Stylus sim})leXj 

 tenuis, glaber, longitudine staminum, summo paullo incrassatus 

 et vacuus. Stigma obsolete 3-dentatum. Drupa sicca, coriacea, 

 calyce immutato triplo breviori siifFulta, turbinata, vel ovata, 

 l-locularis, 1-sperma, in valvis 3 sequalibus ab apice ad basin 

 hians. Semen erectum, solitarium, subglobosum, structura 

 omnino Styracis, nisi enibryone magis obliquo. 

 Frutices Asiatici ; folia alterna, subintegra aut denticulata, den- 

 tibus scepe glandulosis, petiolata ; racerai sajnus tertninales, 

 foliosi aut bracteati. 



1. Cijrta agrestis, Lour. Cocb. i. 278 ; — foliis ellipticis, utrinque 

 acutis, distanter denticulatis, denticulis glandulosis, crassius- 

 culis, glaberrimis, superne nitidis, valde reticulatis, subtus 

 pallidioribus, sub lente venis obsolete stellato-pilosulis, petiolo 

 brevissimo canaliculato ; racemis terminalibus, multifloris. — 

 Cbina. — v. s. in hb. Hook. (Fortune.) 



Folia 2 poll, longa, 9-11 lin. lata, petiolo vix 1 lin. longo. 

 Racemus 1^-2 poll, longus, 6-8-florus. Calyx urceolatus, 

 sinuato-5-dentatus, 5-carinatus, tomentosus, 2 lin. longus, 

 ore 2 lin. diam. Petala lineari-lanceolata, acuta, 7 lin. long., 

 1 lin. lat., extus tomentella, intus glabra, parallele nervosa, 

 sestivatione valvata. Stamina 10, quorum 5 petalis alterna et 

 pequilonga, 5 opposita vix breviora, 7 lin. long., filamenta com- 

 planata, imo in tubum 1^ lin. long., subcobrerentia, et bine 

 glabra, tunc libera, medio barbata, illinc glabra, connectivo 

 extus stellato-tomentoso ; antberse lineares, dorso adnatre, 3 lin. 

 longge. Ovarium oblongum, liberum, imo glabrum, superue 

 pilis crebcrrimis sericeo-villosum, 1 lin. longum. Stylus te- 

 nuis, rectus, glaberrimus, 6 lin. longus ; stigma obsoletum ; 

 pedieelli 5-angulati, superne crassiores, 4 lin. longi. 



2. Cyrta Finlaysoniana. Styrax Finlaysonianum, Wall. Cat. 

 4403 ; DC. Prodr. viii. 261 ; — ramvilis racemis calyceque to- 

 mcntosis ; foliis ellipticis, utrinque subobtusis, margine ere- 



