Distylium
(from dis, twice, and stylos, style; in allusion to the two styles). ORD. Hamamelideae. A genus containing two or three species of greenhouse evergreen trees, natives of China, Japan, and Khasya. Flowers polygamous. Leaves alternate, persistent, thick, coriaceous, ovate, or oblong-lanceolate, entire; stipules lanceolate, caducous. The Japanese D. racemosum, and a variegated form, are the only ones in cultivation.