148 STYRACER. [ Symplocos. 
leaves rather conspicuous and strong ; flowers rather small, yellow- 
ish, then white, fragrant, on 1-2 lin. long pedicels, forming short 
appressed-pubescent racemes in the axils of the younger leaves and 
towards the end of the young branchlets, usually collected into 
terminal leafy or leafless panicles; bracts and bractlets linear, very 
deciduous ; calyx glabrous or nearly so, the limb broad, deeply 5- 
lobed, the lobes broadly oblong, blunt, ciliate, 4 a lin. long ; corolla 
rotate, the lobes oblong, blunt, nearly 2 lin. long ; stamens numer- 
ous, collected in 5 bundles adnate to the base of the very short 
corolla-tube ; drupes the size of a pepper-kernel, obliquely ovoid, 
containing a thin, 2-celled, but only 1-seeded nut ; embryo curved. 
Has.—Martaban hills east of Tounghoo. 
11. §. leucantha, Kz.— 7ha-/e.—An evergreen tree (20—25+ (?) 
+—1), all parts glabrous; leaves oblong- to elliptically-lanceolate, 
a little unequal at the base, on a slender 2-3 lin. long petiole, 3-4 in. 
long, shortly and bluntish acuminate, crenulate-toothed, chartaceous, 
abrous ; flowers white, fragrant, jointed on the very short (hardly 
4 lin. long), thick, greyish tomentose pedicels, forming short tomen- 
tose racemes in the axils of the leaves; bracts ovate, pubescent out- 
_ side, deciduous; calyx quite glabrous, or the ovate blunt ciliolate 
about 2 lin. long lobes a little pubescent outside ; petals obovate- 
oblong, twice as long as the calyx-lobes ; stamens glabrous, unequal, 
in undles, each inserted at the base of the corolla-lobes ; ovaty 
and the long style sparingly hairy. 
Has.—Frequent in the swamp forests of the I ddi plai Fl. Jan.—3.-— 
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JASMINE. 
Fruit succulent or capsular, entire or 2-lobed, 2-celled or reduced 0 
a single cell and seed. Seeds with or without albumen. Embry? 
straight.—Trees or shrubs, often climbitig, very rarely herbs, = : 
: enone or very rarely alternate, simple, or pinnate leaves. Flow 
