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56. STYRACEJ). 



[S^mplocos, 



cate, persistent. Petals 4-5, free or united into a short tube. Sta- 

 mens attached to the corolla-tube, in one or more series, 8-10 or many. 

 Ovary inferior or superior, 2-5 -celled with two or more ovules in each 

 eell, pendulous or erect ; style undivided ; stigma capitate entire or 

 lobed ; fruit drupaceous, usually 1 -seeded. Seeds albuminous ; 

 embryo straight or curved. 



SYMPLOCOS, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, toothed or entire ; often drying 

 yellow. Flov/ers in simple or compound racemes or spikes^ usually 

 yellow or white. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes imbricate. Petals 5, imbri- 

 cate, free or connate. Stamens numerous in several series, adnate to 

 the corolla-tube. Ovary inferior 2-4(-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 pendulous from the inner angle of each cell. Fruit a berry, crowned 

 with the calyx-lobes, 1-3-seeded, seeds albuminous ; embryo straight or 

 curved ; cotyledons shorter than the radicle. 



Fruit urccolate, blue black ; seeds fluted ... 1. S. spwata. 



Fruit ovoid, yellow ; seeds ridged or not. 



Fruit 3 in, ; seed not ridged ... ... 2. <S. Beddomei, 



Fruit 1"25 in. ; seed narrowly 6-ridged ... 3. 8, hanarana, 



1. S. spicata, Roxb. PL Ind. II. 541 ; PL Br. I, 3. 573 ; Brandis For. 

 PI. 300; Bedd. PL Sylv. 149. Eopea spicata, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. PL 

 140. Var. lauHna. Mirjoli, gowuU, M. 



North and Eastern India up to 4,000 ft. altitude, Western peninsula 

 and Ceylon. In the evergreen forests of the Konkan and North Kanara 

 ghats; common. PI Aug. -Dec. Pr. Mch.-ApL A moderate sized tree 

 with sweetly scented small flowers. The fluted seeds are strung into 

 necklaces. 



2. S. Beddomei, 0. B. C. PL Br. I. 3. 583 ; Hopea racemosa, Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. PL 140. Lodhra, hura^ suhaila, M. ; Manithristi, K. 



Western peninsula, on the ghats from the Konkan to Kurg. Along 

 the borders of evergreen forests and in moist places near Dalas, through- 

 out the Konkan and North Kanara. PL and Pr. at different times 

 throughout the year. A moderate sized tree. 



3. S.kanarana, Talk, sp. nov. Herb. No. 3673 ; Jour. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. Bomb. XI. 238. t. 12. A small tree. Leaves ovate, long acumi- 

 nate, crenate-serrate, chartaceous, glabrous, shining above, blade 3-6 by 

 1-2-5 in. ; petiole '3 in. long ; lateral nerves 6 pairs. Plowers in short 

 axillary spikes. Pruit ovoid, smooth, yellow, ridged, 1 '35 in. long by '5 

 in. broad ; stone 1 in. long with 6 very deep longitudinal furrows and sharp 

 narrow ridges between, rongh, surrounded by a copious olive-green pulp, 

 when dry the fruit turns yellow and becomes obtusely angled. N. Kanara 

 in the Sircy sub-division in evergreen forest, closely allied to S. macro- 

 carpa, Wgt. MSS. 



