440 LXX. STYBACE^E Symplocos 



(b) Fl. white or yellow, 1. chartaceous. 



a. Racemes inany-fld., fr. ellipsoid or conical. 



25. S. caudata, Wall. — Syn. 5. prunifolia, Sieb. & Zucc. Khasi hills. Chittagong. 

 Upper Tenasserim (Kurz). China, Japan. A shrub or small tree, 1. glabrous, 

 broadly lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, more or less serrulate, blade 2-3, pet. 

 £ in. Racemes hairy, shorter than 1., calyx glabrous, petals white, ^ in. long. 

 Fr. conical. Chinese specimens have coriaceous 1. and dense racemes 1-li in. long. 



26. S. ramosissima, Wall. Himalaya, 5-9,000 ft., Garhwal to Bhutan, Khasi hills. 

 Lodli. Hind. A small tree, 1. chartaceous, lanceolate, serrulate, blade 4^6, pet. J in. 

 Racemes lax,J-l in. long, 4-8-fld., pedicels as long as calyx-tube. Fr. ellipsoid J-J in. 

 long, calyx-rim narrow. 27. S. nicobarica, Clarke. Nicobars (included in IS. leiostacltya, 

 Kurz). Young shoots hairy, 1. thickly chartaceous, elliptic-oblong, blade 4-6, pet. i-f 

 in. Racemes (in fr.) half the length of 1, fr. ovoid-conic, i in. long, calyx-rim wide. 



/5. Racemes many-fid., fr. cylindric. 



28. S. grandiflora, Wall. Assam, Khasi hills. Branchlets glabrous, 1. lanceolate nearly 

 entire, glabrous, blade 5-7, pet. J in. Racemes lax, 3-4 in. long, bracts lanceolate, longer 

 than buds, deciduous, corolla J, fr. nearly cylindric, J in. long. 29. S. Hookeri, Clarke, 

 Khasi hills. Yunnan. Branchlets thick, glabrous. L. elongate-elliptic, of ten broader 

 in the upper half, glabrous, minutely toothed, blade 8-12, pet. 1-1J in., sec. n. 10-12 pair, 

 prominent beneath, tertiary parallel. Racemes (in fr.) 2-3, pedicels J, fr. cylindric, J in. 

 long. 30. S. sulcata, Kurz. Hills between Sitang and Salween rivers. . Tenasserim. A 

 shrub or small tree, young shoots rusty-tomentose. L. lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 

 blade 4—6, pet. J in. Racemes lax, 1-1J in. long, fr. cylindric-ovoid, sulcate, \ in. long. 

 31. S. leiostachya, Kurz. Tenasserim. L. lanceolate, racemes lax, numerous at the ends 

 of branches, rachis slender, fr. unknown. 



y. Spikes many-fld., fr. globose. 



32. S. lancifolia, Sieb. & Zucc. Assam. Khasi hills. China, Japan. A shrub or 

 small tree, branchlets more or less hairy, 1. chartaceous, glabrous, lanceolate, blade 

 2^t, pet. J in. Spikes axillary, slender, A-1J in. long, more or less hairy, calyx strigose, 

 lobes obtuse, petals J-J in. long, stamens 18-25. Fr. J in. diam., calyx-rim narrow, 

 embryo curved. 



S. Racemes 2-8-fld. 



33. S. pulchra, Wight Ic. t. 1230. Nilgiris, 3^1,000 ft. A shrub, branchlets and 

 petioles densely clothed with long spreading fulvous hairs, 1. membranous, oblong- 

 lanceolate, hairy on both surfaces and along the edge, blade 5-7, pet. J in., nerves oblique. 

 Racemes usually axillary, sometimes terminating branchlets, peduncles slender, 

 1-2 in. long, sometimes branching, hairy at the ends, 2-4 large pure white fl. supported 

 by linear bracts J-J, petals J-J in. long. 34. S. acuminata, Bedd. Ic. t. 117. Syn. 

 8. teneUa, Brand 1. c. 54. Wainad, 5000 ft., very common. Tinnevelli ghats. Trav- 

 ancore evergreen forest 4,000 ft. A shrub, branchlets and 1. glabrous. L. mem- 

 branous, lanceolate, blade 2-3, pet. J in. Racemes axillary, slender, 5-8-fld., bracts 

 linear, hairy, petals ^ in. long. 



• (c) Fl. rose coloured. 



35. S. rosea, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 115. Anamalais. Courtallum. Cochin. Travan- 

 core, common in all evergreen forests up to 2,000 ft. Branchlets hairy, 1. membranous 

 or chartaceous, oblanceolate, acuminate, a few hairs on midrib and nerves beneath, 

 blade 5-6, pet. J in. long. Racemes hairy, 1-li in. long, pedicels shorter than calyx, 

 calyx-lobes oblong, acute, as long as or longer than tube, fr. cylindric, i-f in. 36. 

 S. complanata, Brand 1. c. Nilgiris (probably), reported to differ by coriaceous elliptic 

 1. (not seen). 



D. Racemes or spikes compound. 

 (rt) Fr. globose or nearly so. 



37._ S. crataegoides, Ham. ; Brandis F. Fl. 299. ; Collett Simla Fl. 305. 

 fig. 95. Vern. Ludh, Hind. ; Lojh, Bask. ; Daukyat, Upper Burma. 



Deciduous, a large shrub or middle-sized tree, brancklets and 1. kairy. L. 

 membranous, broad-elliptic or ovate, shortly acuminate, skarply serrate, blade 

 2-4, pet. -|— \ in. Fl. snow-wkite, fragrant, in terminal panicles, filaments 



