Symplocos] LXX. STYEACE.E 441 



connate in 5 bundles, ovary 2-celled. Fr. glabrous, ovoid or nearly globose, 

 | in. long, calyx-rim small, much narrower than fr., embryo curved. 



Himalaya. Kashmir to Assam 3-8,01X1 ft. Khasi and Naga hills. Hills between 

 Sitangand Sal ween. Upper Banna. Fl. March-June. Yellow dye from 1. and bark. 

 China. Japan. 



38. S. spicata, Roxb. ; Wight 111. t. 150; Kurz F. Fl. ii. 146; Brandis 

 F. Fl. 300. Vera. Lodh, Hind. ; Dhaka, Mar. 



A middle-sized tree, 1. coriaceous, glabrous, acuminate, serrulate, blade 4-7, 

 petiole J-i in. Fl. cream-coloured, sessile, in paniculate axillary pubescent 

 or glabrous spikes, each fl. supported by 3 ovate bracts, ovary 3-celled, glabrous, 

 as well as calyx-segments. Drupes sessile, nearly globose, ribbed, J in. diam. 



Assam. Khasi hills, Cachar. Chittagong hill tracts. Tenasserim. Western Ghats, 

 Nilgiris, Shevaroy hills. Fl. Sept.-Dec— Malay Penins. China. Japan. A remark- 

 able form (Thaungyin, D. B. 1859) with entire, thickly coriaceous 1.. sec. n. indistinct. 

 probably a new species. Brand 1. c. 39 separates S, attenuata, Wall., Assam and 

 Khar-i hills, by smaller 1. and more strictly globose fr., and S Candolleana, Coorg and 

 Anamalai-. by more pubescent inflorescence, larger bracts and a straight embryo. 39. S. 

 ferruginea, Roxb. (including .S'. polysiachya, Wall, and javanica, Kurz). Garhwal, 

 Kumaon, Sikkim (-1-6,000 ft.). China. A small tree, branchlets rusty-viUous. L. 

 hairy on tin- nerves beneath, blade 6-8, pet. \-\ in., sec. n. 10-12 pair, prominent on 

 the underside, tl. sessile in large compound axillary rusty-villous panicles, bracts 

 longer than tin' short calyx-tube. Fr. globose, ribbed, J in. diam., crowned by the 

 enlarged calyx-segments. 



& Fr. cylindric, ellipsoid or conical. 



-10. S. thesfolia, Ham. Kumaon. Nepal. Sikkim, 5-10,000 ft. Assam. Khasihills. 

 A middle-sized tree, 1. glabrous, blade 3-6, pet. ^ in., midrib raised, not impressed on 

 the upper side-. Fl. white, sessile, in short dense compound spikes, 1 in. long, stamens 

 10 'jo. ;, little longer than Corolla, disk densely clothed with long white hairs. Fr. 



ellipsoid-cvliudric. ', in. lonir. em 1 u- v<> straight, calvx in fr. hie. m- m. i:.m~ >]"■; ti. 



with larger L, Made 8, -pet. | in. Bills east of Toungoo 2.000 ft. (D. B. Feb. 1880). 

 11. S. Kurgensis, Clarke. Coorg. Similar, young shoots rusty-tomentose, I. hairy 

 beneath, midrib impressed, -pikes compound, 2-3 in. long. 12. S. Warburgii, Brand 

 I. e. 66. Nilgiris, stamen, 25, twice the corolla otherwise like in mot seen). 13. s. 

 oxyphylla, Wall. (£. pedicellata, Kurz.) Assam. Khasi hills. Forests east of Toungoo. 



A large evergreen ti , 1. elliptic-lanceolate, blade I 6, pet, \ in., sec, n. slender 5-7 



pair, joined by intramarginal veins. Fl. shortly pedieellaie. in racenu le or 



branching from near the has-, fr. conical. J-j in. long. 



II. Cal.-tube produced beyond ovary, petals connate into a tube, on which 

 are inserted the stamens. L. glabrous. 



II. S. sessilis, Clarke. Travancore, evergreen hue-ts l-"i,000 ft. A middle-sized tree, 

 1. spathulate 1 '. -". in. Fl. sessile, solitary, corolla J in. long, fr. cylindric | in. long. 

 15. S. pendula, Wight h. i. rj : '. 7 . Anamalai and I'alni hill-. Ceylon upper montane 

 /.one common {S. paucijlora, \\ ight . A shrub or -mall tree, I. coriaceous, ellip 



l}-2{ in. lone, pale beneath. Fl. pendulous, often from the axils of fallen 1 1 E> Bd, 



peduncles with an ions minute persistent bracts, corolla \-k in. Ii 



•J. STYRAX, Linn.: PI. Brit. Ind. iii. 588. 



Bairs often stellate, fl. white. Calyx campanulate, 1 r slightly adnate 



to base id ovary, truncate or 5-toothed. Corolla-tube short. Stamens L0, 

 inserted iii the corolla-tube, filaments short, anthers linear. Ovary incom- 

 pletely 3-celled, the dissepiments reaching to tin- middle. Fr. dry. supported 

 by i lie persistent calyx-tube, breaking up irregularly. Seed I. rarely '_'. 

 embrj o straight, cotyledons flat, species 60, America, Dhina, .la pan, India. 



I. S. serrulatum, Roxb.; Km/. !•'. Fl. ii. 142. Vera. Shigriti, Assam. 



A shrub or small tree. I. serrulate, young shoots and underside <•> leaves 

 ininutel\ pubescent, inflorescence, calyx and outside of petals densely white 



Btellatel] louieiito.se. \'\. mostly in sin li racemes, corolla ' in. long. I'al\\ 



nearly truncate, with minute teet h. 



