N. 0. STYRAOEiE. 759 



Flowers 4-6-merous. Males on short cymes, calyx woolly, 

 camparmlate or cup-shaped. Corolla tubular, ferrugineous, woolly 

 outside, stamens 12-16. Female flowers solitary, larger than 

 the Calyx, broad, edges recurved ; ovary 4-8-celled, densely 

 hairy ; styles 2-3. Fruit glabrous, smooth, globose, or ovoid, 

 1-1 Jin. diam., yellow, edible when ripe, supported by the thickly 

 coriaceous Calyx, the segments with more or less recurved 

 edges. Seeds 4-8, compressed, oblong ; testa rugose, shining, 

 albumen ruminate. Pulp yellow, sweet-aromatic, slightly muci- 

 laginous, particularly near the testa of the seed. 



Uses : — The bark of the tree, possesses astringent properties, 

 and is used as decoction in diarrhoea and dyspepsia as a tonic. 

 In a dilute form, it is used as an astringent lotion for the eyes. 



The Hakims apply its powder in ulceration of the cornea 

 and recommend it internally with black pepper in dysentery 

 (Honnigberger), 



N. 0. STYRACEiE. 



730. Symplocos eratcegoides, Ham. H.F.B.I., III. 

 573. 



Vern. : — Lu, landar, loj, losh (Pb.) ; Lodh (Kumaun) ; Loja 

 (Sutlej ; Lodur ; Pathani lodh (Sind.). 



Habitat : — Himalaya, from Kashmir to Bhotan ; Khasia. 



A large shrub or small tree, deciduous. Bark light-grey, 

 corky, with long vertical cracks. Wood white, soft to moderate- 

 ly hard, close-grained, splits and twists in seasoning. Branchlets 

 and leaves hairy. Leaves 2-4 by 1-1 i'm., broad elliptic or ovate, 

 acuminate, sharply glandular, serrulate towards the apex, mem- 

 branous, pilose beneath or glabrescent ; petiole Jin. long. Flowers 

 white, Jin. diam., fragrant, in cymose corymbs, forming dense 

 terminal or axillary panicles; bracts small, linear, caducous. 

 Calyx: turbinate, lobes ciliate. Corolla 5-cleft nearly to the base. 

 Stamens indefinite 20-60, equalling the corolla in length, connate, 

 in 5 bundles. Ovary inferior, 2-celled, glabrous or hairy. Fruit 

 i-Jin. long, obliquely ovoid, or obovoid, crowned with remains of 



