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LXXXIX. STYRACE-iE. 
[Sty rax. 
Order LXXXIX. STYRACE/E. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple. Flowers in simple 
or branched axillary racemes or spikes, or solitary, white, rarely 
yellow. Calyx gamosepalous, tube more or less adnate to ovary, 
4- to 5-toothed or truncate. Petals 4 or 5, tube short or o. 
Stamens adnate to petals, equal, or double or very many, 1 or 
many rows; filaments free or connate. Ovary inferior or superior, 
2- to 5- or i-celled; style filiform. Stigma capitate. Fruit drupe 
with 1, rarely 2 to 3 seeds. Seed albuminous. Species about 
450, Asia, Australia, America. 
Stamens 10 in 1 row . . . . . .1. Styrax 
Stamens many in several rows. 
Stamens free; corolla-tube very short . . .2. Symplocos 
Stamens in a tube; corolla-tube elongate . . 3. Cordyloblaste 
1 . STYRAX, Linn. 
Tree (or shrubs) usually stellate tomentose all over except the 
upper side of the leaves. Leaves serrulate or entire. Flowers 
white, fragrant in lax axillary racemes or panicles. Calyx cam- 
panulate, truncate or with 5 minute teeth. Corolla-tube short, 
lobes long, oblong, 5. Stamens 10, in 1 row from the base of the 
corolla-tube; filaments flat; anthers linear long. Ovary at first 
nearly free, 3-celled, later i-celled; ovules few; styles subulate; 
stigma capitate. Fruit globose or ellipsoid; pericarp firm, fleshy 
within woody. Seed 1, rarely 2. Species about 60, warm regions 
in Asia and America, a few in temperate regions, Europe and Asia. 
Leaves green beneath, serrulate; fruit ellipsoid . (1) S. serrulatum 
Leaves white beneath; base round, entire; fruit 
globose, flattened at both ends . . (2) S. benzoin 
Leaves white beneath; base cuneate with orange 
stellate tomentum. 
Leaves and branches covered with red stellate 
tomentum.(3) S. Ridleyanum 
Leaves large; fruit globose or ovoid, top not flat . (4) S. crotonoides 
(1) S. serrulatum Roxb. FI. Ind. ii. 415 ; King , l.c. 251. S. 
Porteriana Wall. Cat. 4401. 
Trees 25 to 35 ft. tall or more, stellate grey pubescent. Leaves 
membranous, ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate, base round, 
edges serrate, glabrous except a few stellate hairs by the nerves, 
6 to 8 pairs with nervules and reticulations prominent, 1-5 to 3 in. 
long, 1-25 to 175 in. wide; petioles -2 in. long, pubescent. Racemes 
terminal on short branches, 6- to 8-flowered or fewer, rachis white, 
pubescent. Calyx campanulate -15 in. long, white pubescent. 
Corolla -15 in. long, cylindric pubescent, lobes oblong sub-acute. 
Fruit ellipsoid, -4 to -5 in. long, grey-pubescent. Hab. Woods, 
local in northern parts. Perak (Kunstler). Penang (Wallich); 
Waterfall (Curtis). Disirib. India, Burma. 
