146 STYRACER. [Symplocos. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
6. S. spicata, Roxb.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 149; Brand. For. Fl. 
00.—An evergreen middling-sized tree, all parts quite glabrous; 
leaves from lanceolate to oblong and almost obovate-lanceolate, 
tapering in a 4-6 lin. long petiole, 3-5 in. long, acuminate, erenate- 
toothed or almost entire, coriaceous, glabrous, shining above, ma 
dried state more or less yellowish, the veination between the nerves — 
conspicuous, but thin and lax; flowers yellowish, small, almost 
sessile, forming more or less branched glabrous spikes in the axils 
of the leaves and shorter than them ; bract and bractlets rotundate, 
concave and ciliate, calyx-like; calyx glabrous, 5-parted, the lobes 
broadly oblong, blunt, smooth, about 4 a line long; petals oblong, 
nearly a line long ; stamens numerous, long-exserted, in apparenu, 
a single row and free to the base ; ovary 3-celled, glabrous ; drupes 
the size of a pea, turbinate, torulose-ribbed, olive-coloured, contall- 
ing > conformly-shaped thick and hard l-seeded nut; embryo 
curved. 
Has.—Tenasserim, apparently frequent.— Fl. Aug. 
b 
very short and broad, rounded ; petals about a line long, blant 
numerous, unequal, the filaments free to their ‘insertion 
ovary glabrous, 2-celled (?) ; drupes ovoid-turbinate, terete, the sit 
of a small pea, smooth, crowned by the broad calyx-limb, = 
mg a pergamaceous, thin, 1-seeded nut. . 
