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Order XXIV. TERNSTRCBMIACE^. 



(By W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.L.S.) • 



Shrubs rarely climbing, or trees. Leaves alternate, simple (in Indian 

 species) entire or often serrate, usually coriaceous, exstipulate. Flowers 

 handsome, seldom small, usually subtended by 2 sepal-like bracts, rarely 

 diclinous, axillary, 1 or more together, rarely in lateral or terminal racemes 

 or panicles. ISepals 5, rarely 4-7, free or slightly connate, the innermost 

 often larger. Fetals 6, rarely 4-9, free or connate below, imbricate or con- 

 torted. Stamens numerous (definite in Sladenia and ^tachyurus) free or 

 WBnate, usually adnate to the base of the deciduous corolla ; anthers basi- 

 if'P^, versatile, dehiscing by slits or rarely by terminal pores. Ovary free 

 (a-inferior in Anneslea\ sessile, 3-5-cel!ed, (many-celled in Actinidia) ; styles 

 as many, free or connate, stigmas usually small; ovules S-oo in each cell, 

 rarely solitary, never orthotropous. Fruit baccate or capsular. Seeds few 

 or numerous, placentas axile, albumen scanty or 0, rarely copious; embryo 

 straight or hippocrepiform, cotyledons various.— Distrib. Rare in tempe- 

 rate, abundant in tropical Asia and America, almost wanting in Africa and 

 Purely in Australasia ; species about 260. 



Peduncles 1-flowered (many-flowered in 

 Stamens adherent to the base of the corolla ; 



Seeds usually 



Tribe I. TemstroemieaB. 



^denial Peta/5 imbricate, 

 anthers basifixed. 



fp lu ^"'*' ^'^^^ (in Indian Genera) indehiscent. 



I^w, albumen fleshy usually scanty. Embryo curved ; cotyledons shorter 

 ^nan the radicle and about as broad. 



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Fruit 



1. Akneslea. 



superior. 



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iltu^ '^^'"'P^P'^^'i^te (except Ternatroemia peitangiana) . 



anthers glabrous ... 2. Ternstrcemia. 



Anthers usually pilose." , . . . • 



fttamens about 12, ovary 3-celled 3. Sladenia. 



6 amens many, seeds numerous, ovary 3-5-celled 4. Adinandra. 



Fln»: j-^"^ ^^^y> seeds moderate, ovary 2-3 celled 5- Ci.eyera. 



'powers dioecious ... 6. Eukya. 



Petals imbricate. 



Seeds nu- 



An^^^ II- SauraujeoB. Peduncles many-flowered. 



nners Versatile. Fruit usually pulpy, rarely sub-dehiscent 

 merous minute, albumen abundant. Jiadicle straight or slightly curved 

 ana longer than the cotyledons. 



Flmers Smerow, stamens many. 



^v'esmany 7, Actinidia. 



^'Jlea ^o. .['''''''''"''[[,. S. Saubauja. 



^^lowersi-merom, stamens few. ' ^ 



' •' 9, STACHYURUa. 



imte ^^^' Oo'donlew. Pednndes l-ffowered, often very short Fdah 

 scantv n ^^^^ers versatile. Fruit indehiscent or loculicidal. Albumm 

 "* ir • G^tyledom various : radicle short, straight or curved. 

 ^ "-^Hindehiscent, 



j^ II. PyBENABIA. 



H ^Pged, radicle inferior • . • 10- Sch.ha 



12. GORDONIA, 



wingleas " *"'""* * •/ ' . . 13. Camellia. 



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