Tas: 4546. 
FREZIERA THEOIDES. 
Tea-leaved Freziera. 
Nat. Ord. TERNSTREMIACEH.—POLYANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx bibracteolatus, pentaphyllus, persistens, foliolis imbricatis, 
exterioribus minoribus. Corolle petala 5, hypogyna, calycis foliolis alterna, 
subeequalia, orbiculata, wstivatione imbricata. Stamina plurima, hypogyna, 
pluriseriata ; filamenta brevissima ; anthere introrse, biloculares, oblongz v. li- 
neares, basi insertee, erecta, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium liberum, tri- 
quinqueloculare. Ovula plurima, loculorum angulo centrali biseriatim inserta, 
pendula, campylotropa. S¢ylus brevis, simplex ; stigma tri-quinquelobum. Bacca 
sicca, styli basi rostrata, tri-quinquelocularis. Semina in loculis plurima, rarius 
pauca, pendula, arcuata, testa crustacea, nitida. Embryo cylindricus, in axi al- 
buminis carnosi homotrope arcuatus ; cotyledonibus et radicula supera.—Arbores 
Americane, plereque Peruvianee Andicole, pauce in Antillis monticole ; foliis al- 
ternis, petiolatis, coriaceis, serrato-dentatis, stipulis nullis, pedunculis avil/aribus 
unifloris, solitariis v. fasciculatis, basi bracteolatis, floribus parvis, albis. 
Freziera thevides; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis acutis serrato-dentatis basi in pe- 
tiolum brevem attenuatis, floribus nutantibus, pedicellis axillaribus subsoli- 
tariis unifloris, antheris apiculatis dorso penicellatis, stylo apice trifido. 
Frezrera theoides. Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 0.2. p.971. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. 
p. 524. M*Fad. Fl. Jam. v.1. p.115. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 596. 
Eroreum theoides. Swartz. Prodr. p. 85. 
A Jamaica shrub or small éree, inhabiting the higher moun- 
tains of that island, and remarkable for its very near resemblance, 
both in the leaves and flowers, to the black Tea of China, Thea 
Bohea; and Dr. M‘Fadyen informs us, in his useful ‘ Flora 
of Jamaica,’ that the leaves are astringent, and in taste resemble 
those of the green Tea. Although described by Swartz, no 
figure has yet appeared of it; nor are we aware it had yee 
introduced ‘alive to Europe, till recently sent by our friend Mr. 
N. Wilson, of the Botanic Garden, Jamaica, to the Royal Garden 
of Kew. From these flowering plants our drawing was . 
in September 1850. oe : 
Drscr. A shrub four or five feet high m our stove; i 
Jamaica, according to Dr. M‘Fadyen, it attains a height neha | 
feet: everywhere glabrous. Leaves alternate, on short pelroles, 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1850. 
