Styrax.] lxxxix. styrace^. 297 
(2) S. benzoin Dryand. Phil. Trans, lxxvii. 308, t. 12; Ktng, 
Lc. 252. 
High tree about 60 to 80 ft. tall and 2 ft. through; bark smooth, 
grey; branchlets pubescent. Leaves chartaceous, elliptic acumin¬ 
ate, light green above, white-pubescent beneath, entire, base 
rounded; nerves 6 to 8 pairs, conspicuous beneath, nervules 
transverse; 4 to 5 in. long, 1*5 to 2-5 in. wide; petioles *3 to -5 in. 
long. Racemes panicled, terminal and axillary, pubescent. 
Calyx cupular, -15 in. long. Corolla -4 in. long, white, fragrant 
pubescent, lobes oblong-linear, acute. Fruit depressed globose. 
Fig. ioo.—S tyrax benzoin 
flattened at both ends, hard, pale green glaucous pubescent, 7 to 
•8 in through. Seeds 1 or 2, brown. Hob. In forests; common. 
Singapore, Selitar; Bukit Timah; Sungei Buluh. Malacca, Ayer 
Panas (Griffith); Merlimau; Sungei Hudang (Cantley). Negri 
Sembilan. Bukit Kupayiang (Cantley); Kopis (Kinsey). Selangor, 
Kwala Lumpur, Sungei Buluh (Foxworthy). Perak, Batang Padang 
district; Batu Putih and Gapis (Wray); Trolah (Colomb). Distrib. 
Sumatra, Java. Native name: Kemeniyan. Use: This tree 
supplies the Sumatra Benzoin or Gum benjamin used in incense 
and medicine. 
( 3 ) S. Ridleyanum Perkins , Pflanzenreich, Styracece, p. 61 . 
Tree; branches, racemes, midrib of leaves, and nerves, grey, 
covered with orange stellate hair tufts. Leaves thin, elliptic - 
oblanceolate narrowed to base and often unequal, tip shortly 
