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upwards to and along the margin; reticulations transverse, regular, pro- 
minent ; petiole '3 to - 5 in. long, channelled above, densely grey-stellate- 
pubescent. Racemes paniculate, terminal or axillary to the upper leaves, 
grey-stellate-pubescent ; bracts ovate, caducous ; pedicels slender, 
angular, -1 to -2 in. long ; braeteoles linear, as long as the pedicels or 
nearly so ; flowers silvery-white. Calyx cupular, '15 in. long, densely 
grey-stellate-pubescent without ; teeth 5, minute. Corolla-tube '15 in. 
long, cylindric ; lobes 5, '3 in. long, oblong-linear, acute, white-pubes- 
cent without and more or less within, recurved. Stamens 10, '3 in_ 
long, attached to the tube of the corolla ; filaments flattened, '15 in. 
long, white-pubescent, continued in the connective ; anthers linear, 
slender, erect, acute at tip, as long as filaments, cells parallel. Ovaiy 
conical, villous above ; style slender, '3 in. long ; stigma small, capitate ; 
cells 3, ovules 2 or more in each cell, placentas central. Fruit depressed- 
globose, variable in size, reaching '8 in. in diam. and '6 in. in height , 
white-pubescent, supported by the flattened persistent patelliform calyx , 
pericarp corky, rather thick, irregularly dehiscing. Seed usually 1, 
pale-brown with a broad basal hilum ; outer integument hard, brittle, 
inner membranous ; albumen firm ; embryo horizontal or oblique, 
nearly as long as the endosperm ; cotyledons flattened, oblong-cordate, 
■2 in. long ; radicle smooth, '15 in. long, cylindric. Blume Bijdr. 671 , 
Roxb. PI. Ind. II 416 ; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 260 ; Bentl. & Trim. Med. 
PI. HI. t. 169 ; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. I. Pt. 2, 463 ; Clarke in Hook. f. PI. 
Br. Ind. III. 589 ; Giirke in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV. i. 178, 
fig. 93; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. VII. 132. 
Pebak : Wray 808, 1208 ; Scortechini 1998 ; King's Collector 4459, 
7840, 7884, 8615, 10203, 10305. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 963, 964 ; 
Griffith (K.D.) 3668. Singapore : Ridley 2650.— Distbib. Sumatra 
( Beccari 699; Forbes 3120a); Java ( Forbes 1183). 
This species gives the gum “Benzoin,” or “Benjamin,” of commerce. The plant 
is often affected by galls, causing curious tassel-like excrescences on the branches. 
The tree has the odour of violets (Wray). 
3. Styrax ckotonoides, Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 589 (1882). 
A tree, 60 to 80 feet high and 15 to 20 in. in diam. of stem ; branches 
spreading and drooping ; branehlets rather thick, grey, ultimate ones 
and innovations densely clothed with whitish-grey and rusty-stellate 
tomentum, the rusty hairs large and scattered among the rest. Leaves 
chartaceo-coriaceous ; broadly oblong or elliptic-oblong, abruptly acu- 
minate at apex, attenuate or cuneate at base ; glabrous above except 
on the nerves, densely white-tomentose beneath, and with scattered 
rusty-stellate hairs ; margins entire or undulate ; 5 to 7 in. long, 2'5 to 
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