THE DICOTYLEDONS 563 
THEACEH OR TEA Famiry (TERNSTR@MIACE#, CAMMELI- 
AcEa:).—Evergreen shrubs or low branching, or tall, often heavy 
trees with watery juice. Leaves for the most part alternate, 
evergreen, often leathery, sometimes membranous; stipules 
either bud scales and caducous or often absent; leaf margins 
sinuate or serrate (Thea). Inflorescence a raceme becoming by 
condensation terminal, one-flowered. Flowers regular, perfect, 
pentamerous; sepals five, rarely four to three, deciduous, 
occasionally subtended by bracteolar scales; petals five, brittle 
and succulent, varying from greenish-white or greenish-yellow 
through yellow to white or, whitish pink to pink, scarlet, crimson, 
very rarely a tendency toward purple; stamens typically five 
but, as they grow, they subdivide into staminal leaflets, so that 
in their mature condition they are apparently indefinite and 
mono- to polyadelphous; stamens inserted hypogynously or 
perigynously and opposite the petals; pistil of typically five 
syncarpous carpels but reduced in some species to four to three 
or two. Fruit usually a capsule (Thea), five- to three-celled, 
dehiscing longitudinally, more rarely a fleshy, semi-baccate, 
semi-drupaceous, indehiscent fruit. Seeds with scanty or no 
albumen and often attached to the inner angle of cells by project- 
_ Ing spongy placentz. 
OrriciAL Druc Part Usep BoTANICAL ORIGIN HABITAT 
Caffeina Feebly basic Thea sinensis Eastern Asia 
substance varieties, etc. 
UnorriciAL Druc 
Thea (Tea) Leaves Thea sinensis var. _ Eastern Asia 
Bohea and viridis 
GUTTIFERA OR GAMBOGE Famity.—Tropical trees (Gamboge 
and Mangosteen), rarely shrubs, containing resinous principles 
in schizogenous resin canals found in cortex and pith. Leaves 
Opposite, coriaceous. Flowers dioecious, generally pentamerous 
_ or tetramerous with usually five stamens which are subdivided. 
_ Fruit a berry (Garcinia Hanburyi), drupe or capsule. Seeds 
generally large; embryo large to huge, often with enlarged 
radicle and reduced or absorbed cotyledons. 
OrrictaL Druc Part Usep BoTANICAL ORIGIN HABirat 
aie Cochin 
Cambogia Gum resin Garcinia Hanburyi China and Annam 
