N. O. HAMAMELIDEiE. 
535 
N. 0. HAMAMELIDEiE. 
486. Altingia exaelsa , Nororiha, h..f.b.i., ii. 
429. 
Syn. : — Sedgwickia cerasifolia. Griffith. 
Vern. : — Silaras (H.); Jutili (Ass.);. Neri-uriship-p41 (Tam); 
Rasa-mala (Mai.); Shila-rasam (Tel. Guz. and Mar). 
Habitat : — Extending from East Bengal to China and Malay. 
Assam and Bhutan, Pegu, Mergui, Java, Yunnan. 
A tree, 60-100ft. high. Leaves alternate, 3-4 Jin., elliptically- 
lanceolate, glabrous, acuminate on both surfaces, or with tufts of 
hairs in the axils of the nerves beneath. Petiole 1-lJin Flow- 
ers in dense heads ; heads wrapped by a large bract, male race- 
mose, female solitary. Male heads : a mass of stamens with very 
short filaments, probably representing numerous achlamydeous 
flowers. Anthers obverse — pyramidal, the valves \vhen young 
turned in till they reach the connective, so that the young stamen 
is pseudo — 4-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Female heads 
of 12-20 flowers ; calyces confluent, without limb. Petals 
0 (some rudimentary stamens have been taken for petals). 
Ovary f-inferior, 2-celled ; styles 2, separate, deciduous. Ovules 
numerous, axile. Fruit-head globose, harsh. Seeds numerous ; 
lowest 1-2 of each cell winged, fertile, the upper without wing 
or embryo. 
Uses : — Yields the resin known as “ storaxC’ In orchitis, 
it is not possible to use this semifluid resin on the inflamed 
testicle direct, but it is used over the scrotum and covered over 
with dry tobacco-leaves. I have used it with success in the early 
stages of Hydrocele of the tunica vaginalis. (K. R. K.). 
It contains benzaldehyde, cinnamic acid and cinnamaldohyde, also a resin 
and apontosan ; esters are not presen t.—J. Ch. S. 1902, AI. 111. 
Oriental storax is a mixture of free cinnamic acid, vanillin, styrol, 
styracin, cinnamic acid— ethyl ester, cinnamic acid— phenolpropyl ester, and 
storesinol, partly in the free state and partly as cinnamic acid ester. 
Storesinol has the composition C 16 H JS 0 2 , and melts at 156°— 157°; it is 
isomeric with the benzoresinol, isolated from benzoin, which melts at 272“C. 
