STYEAX 



STOBAX OBDEB 



STYEAX 635- 



pointed, sharply toothed leaves. Flowers 

 in May, pure white, 9-10 in a drooping 

 cluster, and very much resembling Snow- 

 drops in shape and appearance, hence 

 the popular name. Fruit 4-winged, 1-2 

 in. long. A splendid lawn tree, and also 

 very effective by the side of ornamental 

 pieces of water. The variety Meeham/i is 

 a seedling form of the type, from which it 

 differs in having thicker pale green and 

 distinctly wrinkled leaves, and smaller 

 flowers with shorter stalks. 

 Culture do. as above. 



STYRAX (Storax). — A genus con- 

 taining about 60 species of trees or shrubs, 

 with all parts except the upper surface 

 of the leaves more or less covered with 

 scales or a stellate tomentum. Leaves 

 entire or slightly serrate. Flowers in 

 short, loose terminal or axillary racemes, 

 often drooping and white. Calyx bell- 

 shaped, minutely 5-toothed or almost 

 entire. Petals or corolla segments 5, 

 slightly united at the base, rarely as far 

 as the middle, erect, spreading, elliptic 

 oblong. Stamens 10, attached to the 

 very base of the corolla, rarely adnate 

 higher up. Ovary mostly superior. 

 Fruit round or oblong, containing by 

 abortion 1, or rarely 2 seeds. 



Culture and Propagation. — The 

 Styraxes when in bloom are very hand- 

 some like the Halesias, only being much 

 dwarfer plants. They enjoy similar treat- 

 ment to the Halesias, and flourish in 

 deep rich and fairly^ moist loamy soil. 

 For massing in beds by themselves on 

 grass or in the shrubbery they are very 

 effective. They may be increased in the 

 same way as the Halesias. They are not 

 yet well knovim, but are becoming more 

 and more popular. 



S. americanum. — A N. American 

 shrub 4-8 ft. high. Leaves 1-3 in. long, 

 bright green, oblong or oval, mostly entire 

 and acute at both ends, pointed. Flowers 

 in summer, white, nodding, solitary, or 

 in few-flowered racemes. This plant was 

 at one time called Halesia parviflora, and 

 is figured as such in the 'Botanical 

 Begister ' at t. 952. It must not, however, 

 be confused with the true plant bearing 

 that name and described above. 



Culture dc. as above. 



S. californicum. — A native of Califor- 

 nia, 5-8 ft. high. Leaves 1-2 in. long. 



shortly stalked, oval, entire or slightly 

 wavy on the margins. Flowers white 

 and deliciously fragrant, with a hoary 

 calyx and coroUa, and a style becoming 

 about 1 in. long. Fruit about the size of 

 a small Cherry, bony. 

 Culture Ac. as above. 



S. grandifolium. — AN. American 

 shrub about 6 ft. high, with obovate 

 acute or pointed' leaves 3-6 in. long, 

 hoary beneath. Flowers in spring, white, 

 mostly in long racemes. 



Culture dc. as above. 



S. Obassia. — A pretty Japanese shrub 

 with reddish branches, and broad rounded 

 bright green leaves about 8 in. long and 

 about as much across, with a narrow 

 triangular tip, and numerous more or 

 less weU-defined teeth on the margins. 

 Flowers in spring, white, in drooping 

 racemes 6-8 in. long, the yellow stamens 

 in the centre being very conspicuous 

 against the 6 elliptic white petals. 



Culture dc. as above. 



S. officinale. — A native of the Levant, 

 about 10 ft. high. Leaves about 2 in. long, 

 oval-obovate, hoary beneath. Flowers in 

 July, white, in short few-floweredracemes; 

 ■corolla often 6-7 -parted. The Storax of' 

 commerce is derived from this species. 



Culture dc. as above. 



S. pulverulentura. — A native of the S. 

 United States, 1-4 ft. high. Leaves oval 

 or obovate, about 1 in. long, slightly 

 downy above, scaly beneath. Flowers in 

 spring, white, ^- in. long, fragrant, 1-3 

 together in the axils of the upper leaves 

 and the tips of the branches. 



Culture dc. as above. 



S. semilatum. — A beautiful shrub or 

 tree attaining a height of 40 ft. in its 

 native state, extending from India to 

 Japan. Leaves about 2^ in. long, oblong- 

 pointed, serrulate. Flowers in spring, 

 white, in short racemes ; corolla 5-6- 

 lobed, downy. The variety virgatu-m has 

 tapering pointed leaves, broadest in the 

 middle. The plant known as S.japonicum 

 comes near this variety, and differs only 

 in having pink-tinted buds. 



Culture dc. as above. 8. serrttlatu/m 

 and its varieties flourish in good soil in 

 warm parts of the south of England and 

 Ireland. They only attain the size of low 

 bushes in cultivation. 



