

290 XXIV. TERNSTRCEMiACEiE, (W. T. TMselton Dyer.) [P7/renaria. 



woody testa ; albumen ; cotyledons large, crumpled or conduplicate ; radicle 

 inferior, inflexei— Distrib. Malay Penins. & Ind. Arch. Species about 7. 



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Leaves pubescent beneath. 



^ 1. P. acuminata, Planck ex Choisy Mem. Ternstr, 84; bracts and 

 sepals ovate acute. Ternstrcemia ? macrophylla, Wall Cat 3663 tn IierO. 

 Linn. Soc. Gordonia (Camellia?) acuminata, Wall, Cat 3664 in Herb. hew. 



Eastern Peninsula, Malacca and Sincapore, Wallich, &c. 

 Branches 



shortly aciini 

 shortly stalked 

 pufplish-brown within. 

 finally nearly glabrous. 



?pal3 



Ovary silky. 



ety externally. ^ ^.^.^ , - ^ • \] a 



Fruit 14 by 1 in; when dry, pomaceous, wrinkled, 



** Leaves glabrous beneath. 



2. P. camelllaeflora, Kurz in Journ.M. Soc, Beng. 1871, il 46; leaves 

 oblong or elliptic-oblong s.ubacuminate crenato-serrulate. 



Pegu, Kutz ; Martaban, Brandts, , 



A small tree, 25-30 ft. high. Leaves 5-7 by 11-2 in., yello\vi8h-green even when 

 dried; petiole l^ in. Flowers | in. aiam., white; bracteoles small and as ^^^^ ^ ., 

 sepals and petals silky externally. Ovary silky. Drupe about 1 in. long, obovoi , 

 succulent, at first slightly pubescent, then pruiuose. Seeds 2. 



3. P. attenuata, See^n. in Linn. Tram. xxii. 340 ; leaves obovate serra\ 

 late, flowers f in. diam. Frezieral attenuata, Wall. Cat 1451. Thea yindis 

 var. assamica, Clu>isy Mem. T&rndr. 91. Thea assaniica, aff. sp., C^^y 

 Ic 68. 



Tavoy, Gomez. 



shortly 



Branches glabrous; buds silky. Leaves 6-7 by 2^-3 in., obtuse or very . 



acuminate ; petiole 4 in. Flowers very shortly peduncled. Bracts, sejxils, and pe 

 orbicular, pubescent externally. Ovary pubescent ; styles united below, glabrou 



above. 



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4. P. barringrtonlaBfolia, Seem, in Bonpl vii. 49; leaves spathu 

 strongly serrate, flowers 1^ in. diam. Eusynaxis barringtoniiefolia, tr 

 NotvL iv, 560, t. 603, f. 1, 2, 3. 



AsHAM, Griffith; Garrow hills in Eastern Bengal, Lohh. ^ oijn_^ 



A shrub 6 it., with glabrous branches and pubescent buds. Leaves 8-10 by rf" |;t^'| 

 tip rounded or truncate, cuspidate-acimiinate ; petiole ^ in. Flowers )'^^^^^.'^ ybe^l 

 very shortly peduncled. Bracts, sepals, and petals orbicular, ey^s^'^^?'^^ '/^bett 

 cent externally. Ovar?/ silky, grooved ; styles distinct. Fruit ovoid, 1^ m.loDo 

 dry, longitudiiially wrinkled, glabrous. 



axils 01 the leaves or coiiecteu ctii i^^- 

 Sejjuls nsnally 5, unequal, gradu^""£' , ^ 



free or often slightly connate ^\^^f.l^^^^ 



12. GORDONIA, Ellis. 

 Trees with evergreen entire or crenate leaves, i^i^ot^^ers usually h^-nos ^^ 

 often subsessile, solitary in the axils of the leaves or collected at the en 

 the branches, 2-4-bracteolatc. 



the bracts to the petals. Fetals ^.^^ ^^ ^^^^..^ ^..^^^^.j 



innermost larger. Stamens 5-adelphous or all connate, adnate to "^^ P^-jj^j 

 Ovary 3-5- (rarely 6-) celled; style single with a stout spreading siig^^^^ 

 ovules 4-8 in each cell. Capsnle oblong, woody, loculicidal "^i*^^ P^ ^ing 

 axis. Seeds flat or compressed, prolonged upwards into an ^^ ."^ ^^^te 

 (rarely obsolete) albumen 0; embryo mostly straight, ^blique,^i^^^^ 

 flat or slightly crumpled cotyledons ; radicle superior.- ^~~ 

 Tropical Asia, Malay Archipelago, Species about 10. 



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