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upwards to and along the margin; reticulations transverse, regular, pro- 

 minent ; petiole "3 to "5 in. long, channelled above, densely grey-stellate- 

 pubescent. Racemes paniculate, terminal or axillary to the upper leaves, 

 grey-stellate-pubescent ; bracts ovate, caducous ; pedicels slender, 

 angular, -1 to "2 in. long ; bracteoles linear, as long as the pedicels or 

 nearly so ; flowers silvery- white. Calyx cupular, '15 in. long, densely 

 grey-stellate-pubescent without ; teeth 5, minute. Corolla-tuhe -15 in. 

 long, cylindric ; lobes 5, -3 in. long, oblong-linear, acute, white-pubes- 

 cent without and more or less within, recurved. Stamens 10, "3 in_ 

 long, attached to the tube of the corolla ; filaments flattened, '15 in. 

 long, white-pubescent, continued in the connective ; anthers linear, 

 slender, erect, acute at tip, as long as filaments, cells parallel. Ovary 

 conical, villous above ; style slendei:, "3 in. long ; stigma small, capitate ; 

 cells 3, ovules 2 or more in each cell, placentas central. Fruit depressed- 

 globose, variable in size, reaching '8 in. in diam. and -6 in. in height ; 

 white-pubescent, supported by the flattened persistent patellif orm calyx ; 

 pericarp corky, rather thick, irregularly dehiscing. Seed usually 1, 

 pale-brown with a broad basal hilum ; outer integument hard, brittle, 

 inner membranous ; albumen firm ; embryo horizontal or oblique, 

 nearly as long as the endosperm ; cotyledons flattened, oblong-cordate, 

 •2 in. long ; radicle smooth, -15 in. long, cylindric. Blume Bijdr. 671 ; 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 416 ; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 260 ; Bentl. & Trim. Med. 

 PL III. t. 169 ; Miq. M. Ind. Bat. I. Pt. 2, 463 ; Clarke in Hook, f . Fl. 

 Br. Ind. III. 589 ; Giirke in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. i. 178, 

 fig. 93 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. VII. 132. 



Peeak : Wray 808, 1208 ; Scortechini 1998 ; Kiiig's Collector 4459, 

 7840, 7884, 8615, 10203, 10305. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 963, 964 ; 

 Griffith (K.D.) 3668. Singapore : Ridley 2650. — Disteib. Sumatra 

 {Beccari 699; Forbes 3120a) ; Java (Forbes 1183). 



This species gives the gum "Benzoin," or "Benjamin," of commerce. The plant 

 is often affected by galls, causing curious tassel-like excrescences on the branches. 

 The tree has the odour of violets (Wray). 



3. Stteax crotonoides, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 589 (1882). 

 A tree, 60 to 80 feet high and 15 to 20 in. in diam. of stem ; branches 

 spreading and drooping; branchlets rather thick, grey, ultimate ones 

 and innovations densely clothed with whitish-grey and rusty-stellate 

 tomentum, the rusty hairs large and scattered among the rest. Leaves 

 chartaceo-coriaceous ; broadly oblong or elliptic-oblong, abruptly acu- 

 minate at apex, attenuate or cuneate at base ; glabrous above except 

 on the nerves, densely white-torn entose beneath, and with scattered 

 rusty-stellate hairs ; margins entire or undulate ; 5 to 7 in. long, 2*5 to 



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