144 STYRACER. [ Symplocos. 
veined and minutely net-veined between the nerves; flowers small, 
but much larger than in S. spicata, yellow, sessile, forming short, 
puberulous, compound spikes in the axils of the leaves; bracts and 
bractlets 3 under each flower, ovate, ciliate, somewhat acute, calyx- 
like ; calyx glabrous, 5-lobed, the lobes rather short, rotundate, 
blunt, minutely ciliate; petals nearly 1} lin. long, oblong, almost 
blunt ; stamens numerous, in several rows, free to the base; ovary 
glabrous, 3-celled ; drupes elliptical, about 5-6 lin. long, terete, 
smooth, containing a hard, bony, 3-celled nut ; embryo straight. 
Has.—Frequent in the drier hill forests of Martaban, at 5,000 to 7,000 ft. 
elevation.— Fl. March.—1.—85.—Metam. 
2. S. racemosa, Roxb. Brand. For. Fl. 300.—An evergreen tree 
(20—25 + (?)+1—14), the young shoots more or less pubescent; 
leaves oblong and obovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, tapering in a 3-4 
lin. long, strong, often pubescent petiole, 3-6 in. long, bluntish 
acuminate or apiculate, more or less serrulate, coriaceous, glabrous 
‘ or appressed-pubescent on the midrib beneath, in drying turning 
yellowish, the nerves strong, the veination lax; flowers small, 
yellowish, on short, strong, villous pedicels forming a simple or 
branched villous-tomentose strong raceme in the axils of the leaves 
and shorter than them; bract at the base of the pedicel ovate to 
obovate, about a line long, villous-pubescent, the 2 bractlets much 
smaller; calyx glabrous, deeply 5-lobed, the lobes about a line long, 
ovate, acute or nearly blunt; petals nearly 3 lin. long, rotate, ova 
blunt ; stamens nearly as long as the petals, unequal, numerous, 
filaments filiform, inserted at the base; ovary 3-celled ; drapes 
elliptically oblong, about 4-5 lin. long, crowned by the calyx-limb, 
glabrous, terete or very slightly 3-lobed, 3-celled, and 3- or by abor- 
tion 2-1-seeded, when fully ripe bluish-black ; embryo straight. 
Has.—Frequent in the open and dry forests, from Prome and M Us 
down to Pegu and Tenasserim, up to 2,000 ft. elevation ; also Andamans.—Fl- 
Jan.-Feb.—l.—8S.—=Metam. Lat. Argyll. é 
RemarKs.—Wood yellowish, strong and compact. Used for furniture. : 
Bark yields a red dye. = 
3. S. leiostachya, Kz.—An evergreen tree or shrub 
branchlets sprinkled with a few dark-coloured stiff hairs, the leaf- 
buds glabrous ; leaves elliptically lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 0? 
a sparingly hairy petiole 3-4 lin. long, 2-4 in. long, acuminate, repay” 
serrate, almost chartaceous, shining above, beneath on the strong 
midrib and nerves sparingly appressed-pubescent, remaining gees 
or drying brownish, the veination thin and inconspicuous ; flowers — 
small, on slender 1-1} lin. long glabrous pedicels, forming Lise 
ous slender, glabrous, simple racemes at the end of the branches F 
solitary in the axils of the leaves and somewhat shorter than thems 
