438 LXX. STYRACEiE [Symplocon 



white, feebsile or iieai^ly so, eacli fi. supported "by 6 lanceolate villous biacts. Fr. % in. 

 long, narrow-cylindric, crowned by tlie liairy calyx-lobes. 2. S. monantlia, Wiglit lo. 

 t. 1286. Tinnevelli bills. A much branched shiub, branchlets glabrous, 1. glabrous, 

 acuminate, 1~1| in. long. FI. sessile or nearly so. 3. S. anamallayana, Bedd. Anama- 

 lais 5-6,000 ft. A small tree, wholly glabious, 1. 1-2 in. long, fl. white, supportetl by a 

 pair of bract eoles, on slender pedicels 1 in. long, solitary or 2 in one leaf -axil. Er. 

 narrow-cylindric l— | in. long. 



B. Fl. in axillary fascicles on short spikes or racemes not over \ in. long. 

 {cO L. coriaceous. 



4 S, pliyllocalyx, Clarke. Lai Chaiidan^'Nep. Sikldni 8-12,000 ft. Bhutan. Yunnan. 

 A small tree, 1. glabrous, coriaceous, serrulate, blade 3-4, pet. J-^ in. Fl. in compact 

 bracteate spikes, bracts ovate, persistent. Stamens 40-50, twice the length of corolla. 

 Fr. i in. long, crowned by the broad obtuse calyx-teeth, 5. S. glomerata, King. Sikkim 

 from the Terai to 9.000 ft. Bhutan. Khasi and Naga hills. Manipur. Yunnan. 

 Tonkin. A small tree, 1. glabrous, lanceolate, glandular-t-errate, blade 4-5, pet. ^ in. Fl. 

 in dense axillary fascicles, corolla I in. long, fr. cylindric J in. long, calyx-rim nearly 

 as wide as fr., seed one. 



6, S. micropliyUa, Wight Ic. 1. 1232. Nilglris. A densely branched shrub, branchlets 

 glabrous, 1. rigidly coriaceous, serrate, elliptic, acute or obtuse, blade 1-2, pet. ^-J in., 

 sec. and tertiary n. prominent beneath. Fl. white, in compact axillary clusters (shoi-t 

 spikes), bracts villous or conspiououbly ciliate, calyx glabrous, petals |-J m, long. 

 Specimens of this or a new closely allied sp. coll. hj me at Mahabaleshwar have 1. less 

 rigidly coriaceous, shortly acuminate, nerves not prominent, fl. in sessile axillary 

 fascicles, bracts glabrous, disk glabrous, top of ovary and style hairy, fr. I in. long, 

 endocai'p thin chartaceous, embryo slightly curved. 7. S. oligaadra, Bedd. Ic. t. 272. 

 Travancore G-hats. A small or middle-sized tree, 1. 2 in. long, fl. small in very short 

 axillary racemes, stamens 12-14, as long as corolla. 



{b) L. membranous or nearly so. 



8. S. leucantlia, Kurz. Swampy places, Irawadi valley. Thale, Burm. A small 

 tree, 1. glabrous, elliptic, acuminate, base slightly unequal, blade 4-5, pet. slender J in. 

 Fl. white, fragrant, in compact tomentose racemes | in. long, bracts ovate, pubescent, 

 stamens in 5 bundles opposite to petals. 9. S. viridissima, Brand 1. c. 41 (included under 

 ^. Z«nc■^/b/^V, ill FL Brit. Ind. ill. 577). Patkoi range. Yunnan. Japan. A small tree, 

 branchlets glabrous, 1. caudate-acuminate, blade 3-4, pet. J in., sec. n. slender, at a 

 distance from edge joined by mtramarginal veins. Bacemes hairy up to J in. long, 

 bracts and calyx hirsute, petals J m. long, stamens 80-100. 



C. Eacemes or spikes iindivxded, over | in. long, 

 (a) Fl. white or yellow, L coriaceous. 

 a. Fr. ovoid or cylindriCj less than 1 in. long. 

 Q-) Fr. glabrous, L more tban 3 in. long. 



10. S. racemosa, Eoxb. ; Vern. Lodh, Hind, ; JDatikyat, Burm. 



A small evergreen tree, bark thick, spongy. L, glabrous, coriaceous, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, obscurely crenate, blade 4-6, pet. -^-I in. Fl. yellow, 

 fragrant in simple hairy axillary more or less lax racemes, pedicels as long as 

 calyx-tube, stamens about 100. Fr. cylindric, nearly | in. long. 



Subhimalayan tract, Duns and outer valleys, chiefly in Sal forest, from the Ganges 

 eastwards, ascending to 3,000 ft. and higher. Oudh forests. Chutia Nagpore. Khasi 

 hills, Manipur. Lower and Upper Burma, chiefly in Eng forest. L. and bark used in 

 dyeing. Fl. Nov.-Feb, China. 11. S. subglabra, Brand 1. c. 59. Nilgiris (?), reported 

 to differ by fewer stamens (not &een). 12. S. Beddomei, Clarke (reticulata,^ G-rah. ; 

 Brand 1. c, 59). Western Ghats from Mahabaleshwar to Goorg. Similar to 10, 1, serru- 

 late, perhaps not specifically distinct. IS. S. Stocksii, Brand 1. c. 59, Konkan, said to 

 differ by hirsute branchlets. 14. S. obtusa, Wall.; Wight Ic. t. 1233. Nilgiris, 

 Anamalais 4-8,000 ft. Ceylon, common in the upper montane zone. A middle-sized 

 tree, glabrous, excepting the ciliate rounded calyx-lobes, 1. coriaceous, obovate, some- 

 times elliptic, obtuse, almost entire, blade 2-4, narrowed into pet. J-| in. Bacemes 

 1-4 in., petals white, J in. long, fr. ovoid-cylindric, ribbed when dry, | in. long. 



1 S, reticulata J Grab, does not exist* 



