Tas. 8145. 
STEWARTIA MatacHoDENDRON. 
Eastern North America. 
TERUSTROEMIACEAE. 
Srewartia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 185 (Stuartia). 
Stewartia Malachodendron, Jinn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1. p. 698 (sphalmate Mala- 
codendron; species a S. pentagyna, L’Herit., stylis connatis, a S. Pseudo- 
camellia, Maxim., floribus subsessilibus differt, ab ambabus petalis 
stellatim divergentibus recedit. 
Frutex ramosus, 2-4 m. altus vel raro arbor parva, ramulis floriferis gracilibus 
appresse pubescentibus. Folia decidua, alterna, brevissime petiolata, 
lanceolata vel oblanceolata, 5-10 cm. longa, acuminata, praecipue supra 
medium calloso-denticulata, subtus puberula. lores axillares, solitarii, 
9-10 cm. diametro, brevissime pedunculati; pedunculis bibracteolatis, 
bracteolis sericeis 3-4 mm. longis. Sepala5, basi connata, ovato-oblonga, 
circiter 1 cm. longa, subacuta. Petala 5, alba, obovata, 4-5 cm. longa, 
apice rotundata, minute crenulata, extus sericea, ima basi connata. 
Stamina numerosa; filamenta infra medium dilatata, superne filiformia, 
basi petalis adnata, purpurea, | antheris caeruleis. Ovarium sericeo- 
hirsutum, 5-loculare, loculis 2-ovulatis; styli connati. Capsula lignosa, 
ovoidea, vel subglobosa, circiter 1°5 cm. diametro, loculicide dehiscens. 
Semina parva, lenticularia, margine nuda.—Stewartia virginica, Cav. 
Diss. t. 159, f. 2; Sprague et A. Gray Gen. FJ. An. Bor. Illustr. vol. ii. 
t. 138 (Stuartia) ; Gard. Chron. 1877, vol. vii. pp. 433-435, f. 86. Stuartia 
Malachodendron, L’Herit. Stirpes Novae, 1784, p. 153, t. 73; Britton & 
Brown, Ill. Fl. N. U. States and Canada, 1897, vol. ii. p. 426. Stewartia 
marilandica, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 397. Steuartia, Catesby, Nat. Hist. 
Carol. ed. 1, vol. ii. (1743?) App. p. 13, t. 13. 
There are three species of Stewartia, namely, S. Pseudo- 
camellia, Maxim. (B.M. t. 7045), from Japan; S. pen- 
tagyna, L’ Her, (B. M. 3918), North America, and the one 
here figured, which is better known under the name of 
S. virginica, Cav. Mark Catesby, in his monumental work 
cited above, says of this shrub: ‘‘ For this elegant plant I 
am obliged to my good friend, Mr. Clayton, who sent it to 
me from Virginia, and three months after its arrival it 
blossomed in my garden at Fulham in May, 1742.” From 
a letter by Dr. John Mitchell to Catesby, published in the 
place cited above in Catesby’s ‘* History” the following 
passage is extracted: ‘‘The plant which you showed me 
by the name of Steuartia I take to be a new genus of 
plants, the same that I called Malachodendron.” The latter 
had previously been published by Mitchell (Act. Phys. 
Acad. Nat. Cur. vol. viti. App. 1748, p. 216), and repeated 
Juty 1st, 1907. 
