Styrax.] STYRACEA. ’ 655 
1-celled ; ovules 1 or few on the inner angle of ar cell, pendu- 
as t 
Seeds with thin testa; albumen fleshy or sometimes hairy ; 
embryo straight or curved. 
Stamens many, in several rows Symplocos 
- Stamens ten, in a single row yrax 
529. Symplocos Linn. 
Trees or shrubs; leaves alternate, toothed or entire, often 
rather pale green. Flowers hermaphrodite, white, in axillary, 
simple or caegeeeel racemes or spikes, sometimes reduced to a 
single flower; bracts usually solitary at base of each pedicel, 
caducous; bracteoles 3-1, small, at base of flower. Sepals con- 
nate in a calyx, with 5 small, imbricate lobes; tube adnate to 
ovary. Petals 5, imbricate, free or slightly connate, rarely con- 
nate in a distinct tube. Stamens many, several-seriate, adnate “ 
corolla-tube, usually throughout its length, sometimes connate in 
tube be. ies the corolla; anthers —_ oblong. Carpels <n 
in an inferior, 3-celled, rarely 2- or 4-celled ovary; style filiform ; 
stigma el capitate, sub-3- net ovules 2, pendulous from 
inner angle of each ce Fruit an ellipsoid drupe; endocarp 
usually woody, +aseaeaad. Seed oblong, straight, or occasionally 
curved; embryo axial. 
Flowers in racemes; stamens sometimes 100 OF MOTE .......00008 racemosa, 
Flowers in small cymes, subterminal on the pasaen stamens about 40 
acemosa Var. composita. 
1180. ores RACEMOSA Roxb.; F. I. ii. 589; F. B. I. iii. 576; 
E. D. 8. 8062. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur. 
A shrub or small tree. Vernac. Lodh. 
—_ Var. composita F. B, I. iii, 577 
N. Bengal, Duars. 
A shrub. 
530. Styrax Linn. 
Trees or shrubs; leaves elliptic, lanceolate. Flowers in lax, 
little-divided axillary and terminal racemes, occasionally solitary, 
