438 LXX. STYBACEiE [Symplocos 



white, sessile or nearly so, each fl. supported by 6 lanceolate villous bracts. Fr. § in. 

 long, narrow-cylindric, crowned by the hairy calyx-lobes. 2. S. monantha, Wight Ic. 

 t. 1236. Tinnevelli hills. A much branched shrub, branchlets glabrous, 1. glabrous, 

 acuminate, 1-1J in. long. Fl. sessile or nearly so. 3. S. anamallayana, Bedd. Anama- 

 lais 5-6,000 ft. A small tree, wholly glabrous, 1. 1-2 in. long, fl. white, supported by a 

 pair of bracteoles, on slender pedicels 1 in. long, solitary or 2 in one leaf-axil. Fr. 

 narrow-cylindric A— § in. long. 



B. Fl. in axillary fascicles on short spikes or racemes not over h in. long. 



(a) L. coriaceous. 



4. S. phyllocalyx, Clarke. Lai Clmudan,'Ne\>. Sikkim 8-12,000 ft. Bhutan. Yunnan. 

 A small tree, 1. glabrous, coriaceous, serrulate, blade 3^, pet. §-J in. Fl. in compact 

 bracteate spikes, bracts ovate, persistent. Stamens 40-50, twice the length of corolla. 

 Fr. J in. long, crowned by the broad obtuse calyx-teeth. 5. S. glomerata, King. Sikkim 

 from the Terai to 9.000 ft. Bhutan. Khasi and Naga hills. Manipur. Yunnan. 

 Tonkin. A small tree,! glabrous, lanceolate, glandular-serrate, blade 4-5, pet. Jin. Fl. 

 in dense axillary fascicles, corolla J in. long, fr. cylindric J in. long, calyx-rim nearly 

 as wide as fr., seed one. 



6. S. microphylla, Wight Ic. t. 1232. Nilgiris. A densely branched shrub, branchlets 

 glabrous, 1. rigidly coriaceous, serrate, elliptic, acute or obtuse, blade 1-2, pet. J-J in., 

 sec. and tertiary n. prominent beneath. FL white, in compact axillary clusters (short 

 spikes), bracts villous or conspicuously ciliate, calyx glabrous, petals J-J in. long. 

 Specimens of this or a new closely allied sp. coll. by me at Mahabaleshwar have 1. less 

 rigidly coriaceous, shortly acuminate, nerves not prominent, fl. in sessile axillary 

 fascicles, bracts glabrous, disk glabrous, top of ovary and style hairy, fr. \ in. long, 

 endocarp thin chartaceous, embryo slightly curved. 7. S; oligandra, Bedd. Ic. t. 272. 

 Travancore Ghats. A small or middle-sized tree, 1. 2 in. long, fl. small in very short 

 axillary racemes, stamens 12-14, as long as corolla. 



(6) L. membranous or nearly so. 



8. S. leucantha, Kurz. Swampy places, Irawadi valley. Thale, Burm. A small 

 tree, 1. glabrous, elliptic, acuminate, base slightly unequal, blade 4-5, pet. slender J in. 

 Fl. white, fragrant, in compact tomentose racemes J in. long, bracts ovate, pubescent, 

 stamens in 5 bundles opposite to petals. 9. S. viridissima, Brand 1. c. 41 (included under 

 S. lancifolia, in Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 577). Patkoi range. Yunnan. Japan. A small tree, 

 branchlets glabrous, 1. caudate-acuminate, blade 3-4, pet. £ in., sec. n. slender, at a 

 distance from edge joined by intramarginal veins. Bacemes hairy up to J in. long, 

 bracts and calyx hirsute, petals J in. long, stamens 80-100. 



C. Racemes or spikes undivided, over i in. long. 

 (a) Fl. white or yellow, 1. coriaceous. 



a. Fr. ovoid or cylindric, less than 1 in. long. 

 (!) Fr. glabrous, 1. more than 3 in. long. 



10. S. racemosa, Roxb. ; Vern. Lodh, Hind. ; Daukyat, Burm. 



A small evergreen tree, bark thick, spongy. L. glabrous, coriaceous, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, obscurely crenate, blade 4-6, pet. ^-j in. Fl. yellow, 

 fragrant in simple hairy axillary more or less lax racemes, pedicels as long as 

 calyx-tube, stamens about 100. Fr. cylindric, nearly -i in. long. 



Subhimalayan tract, Duns and outer valleys, chiefly in Sal forest, from the Ganges 

 eastwards, ascending to 3,000 ft. and higher. Oudh forests. Chutia Nagpore. Khasi 

 hills, Manipur. Lower and Upper Burma, chiefly in Eng forest. L. and bark used in 

 dyeing. Fl. Nov -Feb. China. 11. S. subglabra, Brand 1. c. 59. Nilgiris (?), reported 

 to differ by fewer stamens (not seen). 12. S. Beddomei, Clarke (reticulata, 1 Grah. ; 

 Brand 1. c. 59). Western Ghats from Mahabaleshwar to Coorg. Similar to 10, 1. serru- 

 late, perhaps not specifically distinct. 13. S. Stocksii, Brand 1. c. 59, Konkan, said to 

 differ by hirsute branchlets. 14. S. obtusa, Wall.; Wight Ic. t. 1233. Nilgiris, 

 Anamalais 4-8,000 ft. Ceylon, common in the upper montane zone. A middle-sized 

 tree, glabrous, excepting the ciliate rounded calyx-lobes, 1. coriaceous, obovate, some- 

 times elliptic, obtuse, almost entire, blade 2-4, narrowed into pet. J-i in. Racemes 

 1-4 in., petals white, J in. long, fr. ovoid-cylindric, ribbed when dry, J in. long. 



1 S. reticulata, Grah. does not exist. 



