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1. Symplocos, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, often turning yellow when dry, 

 entire or toothed. Floioers white, sometimes red, in axillary simple or 

 compound spikes or racemes, sometimes in few-flowered fascicles, occa- 

 sionally reduced to one flower ; bracts small, solitary at the base of the 

 pedicels ; bracteoles 1 to 3, small, at the base of the flower. Calyx-tuhe 

 adnate, short when in flower, campanulate, often enlarged in fruit ; lobes 

 5, imbricate. Petals 5 in one series, or 6 to 10 in two series, free or 

 somewhat connate, or sometimes connate in a tube, imbricate. Stamens 

 adnate to the corolla, at the base of the petals or higher up the tube, 

 numerous, many-seriate, the outer the longest; filaments filiform, or 

 sometimes flattened; anthers short, dehiscing in longitudinal parallel 

 cells. Ovary inferior, or semi-superior, 2-5-celled ; style filiform ; 

 stigmas capitate, slightly lobed ; ovules 2, pendulous from the inner 

 angle of each cell. Fruit an oblong, ovoid or sub-globose drupe ; endo- 

 carp woody or thin, often ridged or ribbed, 1-3-seeded. Seeds usually 

 1 only (by abortion) ; embryo terete, straight or curved, in the centre 

 of fleshy albumen; cotyledons much shorter than the radicle. — 

 DiSTEiB. Warmer regions of Asia, Australia and America, species 

 about 290 to 300. 



Filaments more or less pentadelphous ; corolla-tube divided 

 nearly to the base (Subg. I. Hopka) : — 



Fruit (where known) more or less ampuUiform; embryo 



curved (Sect. i. Paluba) : — 



Inflorescence compound, branching at any rate at the 



Branches of the inflorescence paniculately racemose, 



drupe nearly "5 in. long . . . . . . 1. S. odoratissima. 



Branches of the inflorescence racemose : — 



Eacemes densely ferruginous-tomentose ; pedicels 



scarcely "05 in. long, thick . . . . . . 2. S. fulvosa. 



Bacemes ferruginous-villous ; pedicels '2 in. long, 



slender ; leaves elliptic, under 4 in. long . . 3. 5". nivea. 



Eacemes pulverulent ; pedicels -2 in. long, slender ; 



leaves obovate . . . . . . . . 4. S. pulverulenta. 



Eacemes glabrous or slightly pubescent ; pedicels longer 



than -05 in., slender : — 



Leaves over 4 in. long and 2 in. broad ; calyx-lobes 



glabrous . . . . . . . . 5. S. monticola. 



Leaves under 4 in. long and 1*5 in. broad; calyx- 

 lobes pubescent . . . . . . .. 6. S. fasciculata. 



Branches of the inflorescence spieate : — 



Leaves beneath and inflorescence glabrous or nearly so ; j 7. S. spicata. 



endocarp of seed thin . . . . . . [ var. vialasica. 



Leaves beneath and inflorescence ferruginous-villous ; 



endocarp of seed hard, bony . . . . . . 8. S. ferruginea. 



