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flowers about 12 ; rachis glabrous, flattened ; bracts and bracteoles minute, caducous ; 
pedicels none or very short, scarcely -05 in. long ; buds globose. Calyx-tube -05 in. 
long; lobes orbicular, ciliate, as long as tube. Corolla-tube very short; lobes 5, -15 
in. long, ovate-oblong, ciliate. Stamens about 50, in 5 bundles of about 10 each, 
opposite the corolla-lobes ; anther-cells orbicular ; filaments slender, the longest as 
long as the petals. Ovary conical, glabrous ; style slender, -1 in. long, stigma 
capitate. Fruit not known. 
Borneo : in Sarawak, near Kuching, Haviland No. 1954, 
2. Styrax, Linn. 
Trees and shrubs, usually more or less lepidote or stellate-tomentose 
on all parts except the upper-surface of the leaves, rarely glabrous. 
Leaves various in shape, entire or serrulate. Floioers generally white, 
in lax axillary or terminal, simple or compound, often pendulous 
racemes ; bracts very small. Calyx campanulate, free or slightly adnate 
to the base of the ovary, truncate or 5-toothed. Corolla-tube short ; 
lobes 5, erecto-patent, elliptic-oblong, imbricate or valvate. Stamens 10, 
1-seriate at the base of the corolla-tube; filaments more or less flat- 
tened, continuous with the connective ; anthers large, linear, the cells 
parallel, erect. Ovary nearly free, at first 3-celled, later often 1-celled ; 
style subulate ; stigma capitate, somewhat 3-lobed ; ovules few in each 
cell, in free ovaries nearly all erect from the lower basal angle, in half- 
adnate ovaries upper pendulous lower erect. Fruit globose or ellip- 
soid, seated on the cupuliform or patelliform calyx, breaking up 
irregularly. Seeds 1 or rarely 2 or more, integuments 2, the outer 
chartaceous or hardened, the inner membranous ; albumen fleshy, 
copious ; embryo straight, axile or excentric ; cotyledons broad, with a 
longish terete radicle. — Distrib. Warmer regions of Asia and America, 
a few extending to temperate Asia and South Europe, species about 60. 
Leaves green beneath, slightly stellate-pubescent . . . . 1. S. serrulatum. 
Leaves white or greyish-white beneath, with occasional rusty-stellate 
hairs : — 
Leaves small, under 5 in. long and 2-5 in. broad ; calyx about 
one-third of the length of the corolla . . . . . . 2. S. Benzoin. 
Leaves large, over 5 in. long and 2-5 in. broad ; calyx about half 
of the length of the corolla . . . . . . . . 3. S. crotonoidcs. 
1. Styrax serrulatum, Eoxb. FI. Ind. II. 415 (1832). A shrub or 
small tree, reaching 50 feet in height ; branches slender, branchlets stel- 
lately grey-pubescent. Leaves membranous ; ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate at apex, rounded or cordate, sometimes acute at base ; nearly 
glabrous above, glabrescent beneath, but with stellate hairs on both sides 
of the nerves ; margins sparingly and irregularly serrate, sometimes sub- 
