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numerous, with the filaments growing together 

 at the base, and attached to the petals ; and 

 there are five carpels more or less connected. 

 Gordonia has its five sepals leathery, and 

 covered with a silky down ; its stamens almost 

 in five distinct bundles, a five-celled capsule, 

 and its seeds each furnished with a wing. 

 Stuartia has a permanent calyx, five-cleft, but 

 not parted into distinct sepals, with two bracts 

 at the base, and a woody five-celled capsule, 

 with seeds without wings ; and Malachodendron 

 (which was formerly called Stuartia pentagynia) 

 has a calyx similar to that of Stuartia, but the 

 edges of the petals are curiously crenulated, and 

 there are five distinct carpels, each containing 

 only one seed. Some botanists include the 

 Camellia and the Tea in the order Ternstrce- 

 miacese. 



ORDER XXXV.— CAMELLIACE^.— THE CAMELLIA 

 TRIBE. 



There are two genera in this order, the 

 Camellia and the Tea. The flower-bud of the 

 Camellia is inclosed in a calyx of five, seven, or 

 nine concave sepals, on the outside of which are 

 several bracts, which remain on till the flower 

 has expanded, but which are distinguished from 

 the sepals by their dark brown colour. The 

 sepals and the bracts are laid over one another 



