N. 0. STYRAOEjE. 
759 
Flowers 4-6-merous. Males on short cymes, calyx woolly, 
campanulate or cup-shaped. Corolla tubular, ferrugineous, woolly 
outside, stamens 12-16. Female flowers solitary, larger than 
the Calyx, broad, edges recurved ; ovary 4-8-celled, densely 
hairy ; styles 2-3. Fruit glabrous, smooth, globose, or ovoid, 
1-1 Jin. diam., yellow, edible when ripe, supported by the thickly 
coriaceous Calyx, the segments with more or less recurved 
edges. Seeds 4-8, compressed, oblong ; testa rugose, shining, 
albumen ruminate. Pulp yellow, sweet-aromatic, slightly muci- 
laginous, particularly near the testa of the seed. 
Uses : — The bark of the tree, possesses .aatiingent properties, 
and is used as decoction in diarrhoea and dyspepsia as a tonic. 
In a dilute form, it is used as an astringent lotion for the eyes. 
The Hakims apply its powder in ulceration of the cornea 
and recommend it internally with black pepper in dysentery 
(Honnigberger) 
N. 0. STYRACEiE. 
730. Symplocos cratcegoides, Ham. h.f.b.i., iii. 
573. 
Vern. : — Lu, landar, loj, losh (Pb.) ; Lodh (Kumaun) ; Loja 
(Sutlej) ; Lodur ; Pathani lodh (Sind.). 
ELabitat : —Himalaya, from Kashmir to Bhotan ; Khasia. 
A large shrub or small tree, deciduous. Bark light-grey, 
corky, with long vertical cracks. Wood white, soft to moderate- 
ly hard, close-grained, splits and twists in seasoning. Branchlets 
and 'leaves hairy. Leaves 2-4 by 1-lJin., broad elliptic or ovate, 
acuminate, sharply glandular, serrulate towards the apex, mem- 
branous, pilose beneath or glabrescent ; petiole Jin. long. Flowers 
white, Jin. diam., fragrant, in cymose corymbs, forming dense 
terminal or axillary panicles ; bracts small, linear, caducous. 
Calyx turbinate, lobes ciliate. Corolla 5-cleft nearly to the base. 
Stamens indefinite 20-60, equalling the corolla in length, connate, 
in 5 bundles. Ovary inferior, 2-celled, glabrous or hairy. Fruit 
J-Jin. long, obliquely ovoid, orobovoid, crowned with remains of 
