STYRAX 



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Fig. 4G9. — Common White 

 Jasmiue. 



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



The fruit is a one- or two-sided dry 



drupe I to nearly 1 inch long in the 



different species. All the species are 



loose and spreading in habit. 



Broad-leaved Storax (463) — Sty- 

 rax Obassia — has broad rounded 



abruptly sharp-pointed leaves 6 to 10 



inches long 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 



f inch long. 



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 gro\ving to the height of 30 feet. The other 



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



American Storax (465) — 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 

 I inch in size. 



Large-leaved American Storax — 

 Styrax grandifoiia — 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 i inch long with broadly 

 spreading petals. 



California Storax — StjTax calif 6r- 

 nica. The species so far described have 

 their petals almost always 5 in number, 

 but this California species has 5 to 8 nar- 

 row petals forming blossoms f inch long, 

 April. The leaves are usually notched 

 has small, 1 to 2i inches long, entire- 

 [Fresh seeds ; layers.] 



Fig. 470. — Royal Jasmine. 



in the other species, but this 

 edged leaves. 



