142 STYRACER. [Styraz. 
pedicels, solitary in the axils of the leaves, and forming short 
spurious racemes at the end of young branchlets and here supported 
by the young leaves ; bracts several, as long as the calyx, subulate- 
linear and often cut, tomentose; calyx whitish-tomentose, more or 
less rusty-floccose on the back, usually spathe-like, splitting to near 
the middle, irregularly 5-toothed, the teeth linear-subulate ; corolla 
about 2 in. long, velvety, the lobes oblong, bluntish ; filaments 
white-villous at the broad base. 
Has.—Martaban hills, at 4,000 ft. elevation —Fl. May. 
2. S.serrulatum, Roxb.—An evergreen small tree or remain- 
ing shrubby, the young shoots puberulous or tawny-tomentose 
from minute stellate hairs ; leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, on a 
puberulous 1-2 lin. long petiole, rather acute at the base, 2-3 in. 
long, more or less acuminate and often almost caudately so, serru- 
late-toothed, chartaceous, glabrous or nearly so, green; flowers 
middling-sized, yellowish, on 3-4 lin. long, tomentose, drooping 
pedicels, usually by 2 or 3 im the axils of the leaves and at the same 
time forming one-sided spurious racemes at the end of the young 
branchlets; calyx about 2 lin. long or longer, villous-tomentose, 
usually 5- or 6-toothed, the teeth short.and broad ; corolla 5-cleft, 
the lobes oblong-lanceolate, velvety, nearly 4 lin. long; stamens 
10; filaments villous at the dilated base ; drupes capsule-like, ovoid- 
globular to oblong, about $ an in. long, densely and shortly velvety; 
irregularly dehiscing from the base, 1-4~seeded. 
Has.—Chittagong.—Fl. March; Fr. Oct. 
8. §. virgatum, Wall.—An evergreen tree, the young shoots 
more or less densely tomentose ; leaves oblong or elliptically oblong; 
on a 1-2 lin. long pubescent petiole, 3-4 in. long, acuminate, 
minutely and remotely toothed, chartaceous, more or less sprinkle 
with minute stellate hairs and glabrescent, green ; flowers conspl- 
cuous, white, on floccose-tomentose pedicels varying in length from 
only 4 to 5-7 lin., solitary in the axils of the leaves and spuriously 
racemose along the short young branchlets ; calyx greyish-tomentose, 
glabrescent towards the limb, almost membranous, truncate with 9 ~ 
or 6 minute teethlet ; corolla-lobes about }-3 in. long, ovate, velvety 
a minutely puberulous; stamens 10; filaments villous at the dilated 
ase 
Has.—Burma, probably Ava. = 
gar il ga like the preceding, gum-benjamin or benzoin of inferior 
quality. 
SYMPLOCOS, L. 
_ Calyx more or less adnate to the ovary, 5-lobed. Petals some-— “4 
times quite free, but usually adhering with their bases to the fila- 
