522. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ternstroemia. 
Young shoots clothed with a little grey, meally pubes- 
cence. » Leaves alternate, petioled, from lanceolate to ob- 
long, serrate, acuminate, smooth, except the veins on 
the under side ; from five to ten inches long, and from two 
to three and a half broad. Petioles about an inch long, 
channelled, meally. | Stipules none. Peduncles \ateral, 
many together, drooping, divided in a triternate man- 
ner, with one flower on each of the ultimate divisions. 
Flowers small, rosy. Bractes small, opposite at the di- 
visions. Calyx five-leaved, permanent. Leaflets unequal, 
oval. Corol one-petalled. Tube gibbous, sub-campanu- 
late. Border of five, nearly round cordate, spreading seg- 
ments, which are imbricated in the bud, as in the contort. 
Filaments above fifty, shorter than the tube of the corol, 
and inserted in a double series into it near the base. 
Anthers turbinate, two-lobed, having a circular opening 
in each at the top, for the discharge of the pollen. Germ 
superior, ovate, five-celled, with numerous ovula in each, 
attached toas many vertical receptacles, which project into 
their cells from the axis. Style short, five-grooved, five- 
parted ; segments spreading and finally recurved. Stigmas 
transversely oval. Berries rather dry, nearly round; the 
size of a small pea, smooth, five-celled. Seeds a few 0 
each cell, intermixed with a little pulp, oval, brown. 
2. T. bilocularis. R. 
Branchlets, scaly ; leaves alternate, cuneate, lanceolate, 
acute, serrulate. Flowers in lateral fascicles below the 
leaves. Berries three-celled. 
A native of the Moluccas. 
Young shoots clothed with ferruginous subulate scales- 
pea short-petioled, cuneate, lanceolate, acute, finely 
serrulate, smooth, from four to six inches long and two 
broad. Flowers peduncled, and collected in little fascicles 
over the leafless branchlets, small. Calyx five-leaved ; iL - 
leaflets roundish, imbricated, smooth, permanent, — | 
