CHAP. I.] TERNSTRCEMIACE^. 303 



ORDER XXXIl*.— DIPTEROCARP^.— THE CAMPHOR 

 TREE TRIBE. 



There are two kinds of Camphor, one pro- 

 duced by boiling the branches of a kind of laurel, 

 and the other (the Camphor of Sumatra) is 

 found in large pieces in the hollow parts of the 

 branches of Dryohalanops Camphora, one of the 

 species included in this order. None of these 

 trees have been introduced into Britain. 



ORDER XXXni.— CHELONACE.E, OR HUGONIACEiE. 

 Small trees and shrubs, natives of the East 

 Indies and Madagascar; only the genus Hugo- 

 nia is known in Britain. 



ORDER XXXIY TERNSTR(EMIACE.^.— THE 



TERNSTRCEMIA TRIBE. 



The principal plants in this order common in 

 England are Gordonia, Stuartia, and Malacho- 

 dendron. Gordonia Lasianthus, the Loblolly 

 Bay, is a small evergreen tree, with, white 

 flowers, about the size of a rose. It is a native 

 of America ; and Stuartia and Malachodendron 

 are beautiful low trees or shrubs, with large 

 w^hite flowers from the same country. The 

 flowers have five large petals ; the stamens are 



