STYRAX 



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Fig. 409. — Com in on White 

 Jasmine. 



what bell-shaped white flowers. The petals are somewhat united at hase. 

 The fruit is a one- or two-sided dry- 

 drupe J to nearly 1 inch long in the 

 different species. All the species are 

 loose and spreading in habit. 



Broad-leaved Storax (463) — Sty- 

 rax Obfeia — has broad rounded 

 abruptly sharp-pointed leaves 6 to 10 

 inches long with coarse notches beyond 

 the middle. The fragrant drooping 

 flowers are J inch long in clusters 5 to 7 

 Inches long, May. The pointed fruit is 

 J inch long. 



Japanese Storax (464) — Styrax 

 jap(5nlca — has smaller leaves, 1 to 3 

 inches, and the smaller flowers, J 

 inch long, are in fewer (3- to 6-) 

 flowered ■ clusters, June, July. Both of 

 these species from Japan form occa- 

 sionally small trees growing to the height of 30 feet. The other 

 species, given below, are only shrubs usually less than 8 feet high. 



American Storax (405) — Styrax 

 americina — has small, 1 to 3 inches 

 long, slightly notched smooth leaves and 

 often solitary flowere in the axils, April 

 to June . The rounded fruit is only about 

 J inch in size. 



Large-leaved American Storax — 

 Styrax grandifblia — has large leaves, 2 

 to 6 inches long, with the lower surface 

 light colored and velvety with hairs, and 

 the fragrant flowers in loose clusters 3 

 to 6 inches long. May ; the individual 

 flowers are fully J inch long with broadly 

 spreading petals. 



California Storax — Styrax calitdr- 

 nica. The species so far described have 

 their petals almost always 5 in number, 

 but this California species has 5 to 8 nar- 

 row petals forming blossoms f inch long, 

 April. The leaves are usually notched 

 das small, 1 to 2J inches long, entlre- 

 [Fresh seeds ; layers.] 



Fig. 470. — Royal Jasmine. 



in the other species, but this 

 edged leaves. 



