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Capsule 1-li in. ; back of valves sulcate. — Thwaites does not appear to have seen spe- 

 cimenB of this plant, which differs^ from O zeylanica in its sessile, more conaceoup 

 leaves with slightlj revolute margins when dry, and its larger flowers, 



6. G. speciosa, Thwaites Enum, 40; leaves sessile broadly elliptic 

 rounded and retuse at the apex entire coriaceous. Carria speciosa, Gard, in 



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Chic, Journ, Nat. Hist, vii. 7. 



Ceykon ; diunp forests of the Central Province, rather uncommon, alt. 5000 ft. a 

 upwards, Oardner^ &c. , . - , 



A tree 40-50 ft. BrancUets with the leaves crowded at their extremities; barK 

 groy, cracking longitudinally. Buds glabrous. Leaves 3-5 by 1^-3 in., slightly reya- 

 Inte when dried; midrib strong, channelled above; veins obsolete. Flowers 2-4 m. 

 diam , subsesyile, reddish-purple. Sepals and petals orbicular-oblong, obcordate ; sepas 

 smooth, mar-ins ciliate ; petals faintly silky externally towards the base, taps 

 li in. long; back of valves sulcate above. 



GoKDOMA ANOMALA, Sprevg, St/st. lii. 126, is figured in Bot Beg. 349, ^^^^^^ 

 name of Camellia axillaris, Boxb. nis., and is stated to have been introduced by L>r. no ■ 

 burgh into the Calcutta Botanic Garden from Fulo-Penang. I have seen, however, no 

 specimens except from S. China, whence it is probably not indigenous in Penang. < 



13. CAMEZaXiZA 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves evergreen, serrate, coriaceous or ^^^I^^^^^rxg^ 

 Fh'wers axillary, solitary, or aggregated, sessile or shortly ^^^^'^*^^% ^ Jug 

 handsome. Sepals 5-6, unequal, graduating from the bracts towards tn 

 petals. Petfxls slightly coherent at the base. Stamens numerous, the outer- 

 most in many rows, slightly or almost wliolly monadelphous, ^<i^*^'^^^/V 

 the base of the petals ; the innermost, 5-12, free. Ovary 3-5-celled ; siyi^ 

 free to the base, or more or less united ; ovules 4-5 in each cell, penduiou . 

 Gapsxde woody, usually short, loculicidaL Seeds mostly solitary in eacn cei , 

 wmgless, albumen 0; embryo straight, cotyledons thick, radicle snu, 

 superior.— DiSTRiB. Trop. and East Asia and Malay Archipelago, ^pew 

 about 14. 



Sect. I. Tbea, Linn. Flowers no(}iAms, sepals ^ershtent. 



1. C. thelfera, Griff. Notitl iv. 558, t. 601, f. i. & iii. ; Travis. ^Sr^,^^^ 

 Gale. V. (1838), t. C; leaves elliptic-oblong acute or cuspidate-acuminate y 

 berulous on the nerves beneath, peduncles 2-3-bracteate short, styles 

 stamens glabrous. Thea chinensis, Linn.; Seem, in Trans. Linn. *^*^^- ^^^ a g^m 

 T. assamica, Masters in Joitrn. Agric. c& IIorL Soc. Ind. iii. (1844), 63. ^^n 

 Tea, Wall. Jonrn. Asiat, Soc. Beng. iv. 48, t. 2. Camellia! Scottiana, »« _ 

 Cat. 3668, (see Journ. Linn. Soc. xiil 328). Camelliae sp., Grin-, ^i, i 



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IJohenack. 483 (a cultivated form). 



Anderson).— Dj&r^^^. China. 



«ji-n:-n ^DOAM, nuiticn; v^AUHAR [^fiae i\ Anderson). — j^isikib. v>m— - ^i in. 



A shrub, 3-6 ft. high. BrancJdcts glabrous ; buds silky. Leaves ^^^J^^'i' A in. 

 tapering at either end, more or less serrate, membranous ; petiole J in. ^J'^rj^ broadly 

 diam., white. Sepals orbicular, glabrous, with nicmbmnous ciliate edges. -^^((^ ^W 

 obovate. Styles united for ^ *i^-:- »"- -^ ^- '- '--i ♦^•rr/^nnns : cells i- 



2-seeded, Seeds f in. diam 



their len-th. Capsule leathery, trigonous ; cei 

 nearly globose or obtusely angled, smooth, {)» 



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Possibly the wild stock of the tea plant. The cultivated forms vary witn "j ]n 

 tractod habit, smaller, more obtuse and coriaceous leaves, and a pubescent c ^^£^^^1 

 J. W. Bennett's Ceylon, 277, the Tea plant is alluded to and figured as havmg ^ ^^ ^^ 

 in that island by the Dutch. This, however, was not confirmed by th^ ^ri 



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