442 LXX. STYRACEiE [Styrax 



Khasi hills. Manipur. Cachar. Cliittagong. Tenasserim. Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, 

 Upper Burma. Fl. March-May. Leaf-and flower-buds often grow out into galls, up 

 to 10 in. long. China, Japan. <S'. mrgatum, Wall., is a form with long acuminate 

 leaves, usually widest below the middle, and larger fl. S. Benzoin, Dryander, is a tree 

 of the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, which yields from incisions in the bark a 

 balsamic resin, called Benzoin, used medicinally and in the preparation of incense. 2. S. 

 Hookeri, Clarke. Sikkim, Bhutan, 6-7,000 ft. closely allied to 1, fl. 1 in. long. 3. S. ragosum, 

 Kurz. Hills east of Toungoo. Shan hills. Mogok valley, Ruby Mines district. A shrub 

 or small tree, branchlets, underside of 1. and inflorescence densely white tomentose, 1. 

 sharply and often deeply dentate, fl. in terminal bracteate and leafy racemes, bracts 

 with long linear teeth, calyx-lobes triangular. 



4 S. Polysperma, Clarke. Khasi hills, branchlets and 1. glabrous, inflorescence com- 

 pound dichotomous, fr. 5-6-seeded, possibly does not belong to this genus. 



Oeder LXXI. 0LEACE.E. Gen. PL ii. 672. 



Unarmed shrubs or trees, sometimes climbing. Leaves opposite (alternate 

 in a few species of Jasminum), stipules 0. Inflorescence mostly racemose, 

 rarely cymose, in trichotomous panicles. Fl. regular, as a rule bisexual, often 

 dimorphic. Calyx small, truncate or 4-lobed, lobes sometimes 4-9. Corolla- 

 lobes usually 4, sometimes 4-12, in some cases petals distinct or none. 

 Stamens 2, filaments usually short, ovary free, 2-celled, ovules 1-2 in each 

 cell, attached to the inner angle. 



The climbing species of Jasminum have, as far as known, wood of a normal structure, 

 but the stems are often spirally twisted and in some cases wedges of bast intrude into 

 the wood. 

 Usually trees or shrubs, 1. or leaflets penniveined. 



Fr. flat dry, separating when ripe into 2 flat 1-seeded 



cells, 1. simple ........ 1. Nyctanthes. 



Fr. an indehiscent samara, 1. imparipinnate . . .2. Fraxinus. 

 Fr. a capsule, dehiscing loculicidally, the valves septiferous. 

 L. imparipinnate, capsule woody, albumen . .3. Scheebeka. 

 L. simple or pinnatifid ; capsule coriaceous, albnmen 



fleshy . . . . . . . . .4. Syrixga. 



Fr. a drupe, endocarp bony or crustaceous. j 



Corolla-lobes imbricate 5. Osmanthus. 



Corolla-lobes valvate. 



Corolla tubular or 0, inflorescence usually 



axillary 6. Olea. 



Corolla funnel-shaped, panicles or racemes 



terminal 7. Ligustrum. 



Petals distinct or connate in pairs . ■ . .8. Lixociera. 

 Fr. a 2-lobed berry, one lobe sometimes wanting, corolla- 

 tube cylindrical, albumen 9. Jasminum. 



A large climber, 1. prominently 3-nerved .... My.nopyrum (p. 452). 



1. NYCTANTHES, Linn.; Fl. Brit, Ind. iii. 603. 



1. N. Arbortristis, Linn, (the only species), Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 240. 

 Vern. Har, Siharu, Saihari, Harsinghar, Kuri, Hind. ; Kharasli, Mar. ; 

 Hursing, Parijata, Kan. ; Krishti, Tell. ; Seikpalu, Burm. 



A large deciduous shrub or small tree, branches quadrangular, rough all 

 over with an uneven epidermis and stiff white hairs. L. ovate, acuminate, 

 entire or with a few large distant teeth. Fl. sessile, in pedunculate bracteate 

 fascicles of 3-5, arranged in short trichotomous cymes. Calyx campanulate, 

 indistinctly dentate, corolla-lobes 5-8, white, crenate or emarginate, contorted 

 in bud. Anthers sessile in the orange-coloured corolla-tube. Capsule charta- 

 ceous, flat, splitting into two 1-seeded cells, cotyledons flat, radicle inferior, 

 albumen 0. 



Subhimalayan tract, from the Cbenab southwards. Oudh Forests. Singbhum Central 



