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entire, slightly revolute ; l - 5 to 5 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad; midrib 
slender ; main-nerves 6 to 8 pairs, curving upwards and anastomosing 
near the margin ; secondary nerves and reticulations prominent, the 
latter transverse ; petiole -2 in. long, stellate-pubescent. Racemes 
terminal or from the axils of the uppermost leaves of the branchlets, 
6-8-flowered or fewer, sometimes reduced to 1 only, sometimes panicu- 
late from the absence of leaves, 1 to 2 in. long ; rachis slender, densely 
white-stellate-pubescent ; pedicels -2 in. long ; bracteoles linear, nearly 
as long as pedicels ; flowers white. Calyx campanulate ; tube white- 
pubescent without, glabrous within, -15 in. long; teeth 5, -05 in. long, 
irregular, repand-dentate, white-pubescent on both sides. Corolla-tube 
■15 in. long, cylindric ; lobes 5, -25 in. long, oblong, sub-acute, densely 
white-pubescent without and within except the lower part of the tube. 
Stamens 10, 2-5 in. long ; filaments inserted on the corolla-tube, wide 
and white-tomentose at the base, narrower and glabrous above, con- 
tinued in the connective ; anthers broadly linear, erect, as long as the 
filaments, rounded at top, cells 2 parallel. Ovary densely white-villous ; 
style slender, -3 in. long ; stigma small, capitate ; cells 3. Fruit ellip- 
soid, -4 to 1 5 in. long, -3 in. broad, white- or grey-pubescent, supported 
by the patelliform calyx ; pericarp fleshy, rather thin, irregularly 
breaking up. Seeds 1, rarely 2 or more ; outer integument smooth, 
hard, shining, brittle ; inner one membranous, brown ; albumen firm, 
grey ; embryo erect, nearly as long as the endosperm ; cotyledons 
cordate, T5 in. long ; radicle thick, terete, as long as cotyledons. Wall. 
Cat. 4402 ; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 267 ; Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5950 (syn. 
excl.) ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 237 and For. PL II. 142 ; 
Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 588 ; Prain Beng. Plants I. 656. 
S. Porterianus, Wall. Cat. 4401 ; A. DC. l.c. ; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. I. Pt. 2, 
463. S. floribunda, Griff. Notul. IV. 287. 
Penang : Wallich 4401 ; Phillips ; Curtis 1187, 1538 ; Ridley 7176. 
Pebak : King’s Collector 1662. — Distrib. India, at 3,000 to 7,000 feet 
from Nepal to Assam, Chittagong and Burma. 
The plant is frequently affected by galls. 
2. Styrax Benzoin, Dryand. in Phil. Trans. Vol. LXXVII. 308, t. 12 
(1787). A tree with slender drooping branches, reaching 60 to 80 feet in 
height and 2 to 3 feet in diam. of stem ; branches rounded, glabrous ; 
upper branchlets rusty-grey-stellate-pubescent. Leaves chartaceous ; 
elliptic, acuminate at apex, attenuate or rounded at base ; glabrous 
above, densely grey-stellate-pubescent beneath ; margins entire or rarely 
slightly denticulate ; 4 to 5 in. long, 1-5 to 2 - 5 in. broad ; midrib slender, 
prominent beneath, impressed above; main-nerves 6 to 8 pairs, curving 
