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long, semiterete, sulcate above, pubescent, blades elliptico-oblong, 4-5 cm. 

 long, 2 cm. broad, acute at both ends or obtuse, margin crenulate, slightly 

 repandate, entire towards the base, glabrous on both sides, cosfcas prominent, 

 veins impressed, coriaceous. Flowers axillary, always solitary, patent, 3 cm. in 

 diameter. Sepals deciduous, 4-5, strongly inequal, 2-seriate, broadly ovate, 

 obtuse or mucrouate, 6-8 mm. long as broad, pilose on the outside. 

 Petals 5, white, obovately cuneate, sinuately emargiuate at the apex or 2- 

 lobed, nearly 1| cm. long, 1 cm. broad. Stamens nearly 30, 2-seriate, 

 the outer the longer ; filaments mostly as half long as petals, base connate. 

 Ovary globose, sericeo- pilose, l mm. long. Styles 4, very short, base connate, 

 recurved at the apex, 1 mm. long. Fruits not yet known. 

 HAB. Arizan and Tozan. 



DlSTIilB. 



Thea chinensis SIMS, Bot. Mag. t. 998 ; DC. Prodr. I. p. 530 ; SEEM. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXII. p. 349, t. 61 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enutn. PI. 

 Formos. p. 50 (sub Camellia.) 



HAB. Widely cultivated in the island. 



DISTRIB. India, Japan and China. 



Thea tenuiflora HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 40. 

 Branches slender, cinereo-rubescent, leafy on the upper portions, young 

 branchlets nigricant, hirsute, perulate at the base, parules rounded, ciliolate, 

 2-3-seriately arranged, cataphylls spathulate, entire, 1 cm. long. Leaves 

 petiolate, coriaceous, obovately oblong or oblong, 4 cm. long, 16 mm. broad, 

 acute at the apex, obtuse at the extremity, cuneately acute at the base, dis- 

 tinctly serrulate upwards on the margin, but very obscurely at the middle, 

 nearly entire downwards, glabrous on both sides when dried, (in. 

 younger stage somewhat pilose) minutely punctate on both sides, costa, 

 veins and veinlets distinctly elevated, petioles 5 mm. long. Flowers sessile, 



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axillary, solitary. Sepals nearly 5, inequal, deciduous, broadly rounded 

 sparingly pilose, coriaceous, 4 mm. broad, ciliolate on the margin. Petals 

 nearly 5, inequal, obovately oblong, rounded or truncately rounded at the 

 apex, base cimeato, 18 mm. long, 10 mm. broad. Stamens numerous, 8 mm. 



