Styrax.] STYRACER. 141 
with alternate simple leaves often turning yellowish in drying. 
Stipules none. Flowers usually small or middling-sized, usually in 
axillary spikes, racemes or clusters, rarely solitary. Bracts minute, 
often scale-like. 
Benzoin and storax, fragrant gum-resins, are the produce of a 
few species of Styrar. Some species of Symplocos yield yellow or 
e species here described are all that are as yet known 
from Burma. . 
Anthers elongate, linear; drupe tardily opening in valves, dry  . Styraz. 
ers short, oval; drupe more or less succulent, crowned by the 
calyx-limb~. é ° . : . ‘ . : . Symplocos. 
STYRAX, L. 
Calyx urceolate bell-shaped, 5-toothed or truncate. Corolla 
usually 5- rarely 4-7-parted, the lobes twisted or rarely almost 
valvate in bud. Stamens twice as many as corolla-lobes, rarely 
varying in number from 7-12, in a single row, adnate to the 
of the corolla ; filaments at the basé¢ united in a short tube ; anthers 
erect, linear to linear-oblong. Ovary quite free, or adnate at the 
ase, 3-celled at the base, 1-celled at the apex, the cells with several 
ovules in 3 series, those of the upper row almost erect, the median 
ones horizontal, the lowermost ones suspended from a free axial 
placenta, the dissepiments incomplete; style simple with a capitately 
3-lobed stigma. Fruit a dry drupe or rather capsule, containing 
a l- (rarely 2-3-) -seeded nut, often valvately dehiscing.—Trees or 
shrubs, with alternate simple leaves not drying yellowish. Flowers 
usually conspicuous, solitary or in poor racemes or panicles, terminal 
or axillary. 
X All parts more or less tomentose, the under side of leaves 
articularly so. 
Leaves white-tomentose beneath 3 calyx spathaceous-slit, conspi- 
cuously subulate-toothed 7 . ‘ ‘ : : . S&S. rugosum, 
X X Younger parts more or less tomentose ; leaves sparingly 
minutely stellate-puberulous, glabrescent and 
green. 
Calyx 5- or 6-toothed ; corolla-lobes narrow-oblong, about 4 lin. 
long ; leaves serrulate . : See Cue os - S. serrulatum. 
Calyx truncate and minutely toothed; corolla-lobes ovate, nearly $ 
in. long ; leaves remotely and minutely toothed . - «+ S&S. virgatum. 
1. §. rugosum, Kz.—An evergreen tree, the branchlets and all 
younger parts covered with a rusty-coloured floccose tomentum; 
leaves oblong, on a strong floccose-tomentose petiole 1-2 lin. long 
b S Pe ; . 5? 
obtuse at the base, 14-24 in. long, more or less acuminate, irregu- 
larly serrate and occasionally somewhat lobed, wrinkled and shortly 
pubescent above, beneath softly white-tomentose ; flowers middling- 
sized, white, on thick, curved, about a line long, floccose-tomentose 
