GUTTIFERALES.] 



TERNSTROMIACE^. 



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has, in fact, the habit of a Clethra and seems to bring into contact the Ranal and 

 Erical AlUances. Abstracting this genus and Cochlospermum, which is transferred to 

 the Cistal Alliance, a better Umited group remams, of which the CamelHa may be 

 taken as the type, and which differs from Guttifers in having alternate leaves, versatile 

 anthers, and a long style, without any tendency to form the flowers on a quaternary 

 plan. 



Although the plants of this Order wliich are known in European gardens are chiefly 

 from China or North America, they form but an inconsiderable part of the whole : 7 or 

 8 are all that are contained ia the first of these countries, and 4 in the latter ; while 

 between 60 and 70, all beautiful trees or slu-ubs, are natives of the woods of South 

 America : about a score are known in the East Indies, and one in Africa. 



Their properties are ill understood, but little being known of the greater part of the 

 species. The tea which is so extensively consumed by Europeans is produced by two 

 or three species of Thea : its sUghtly stimulating properties become narcotic ia very hot 

 latitudes, as at Penang. For a most valuable accoimt of this plant, see RoyWs Illustr., 

 p. 107. An excellent table oU is expressed from the seeds of Camellia oleifera. The 

 different species and varieties of Camellia japonica are the glory of gardeners. The 

 leaves of Kiehneyera speciosa are employed in Brazil for fomentations, for which they 

 are well adapted, on account of the mucilage in which they aboimd. The bark of Gor- 

 donia is used by tanners in the United States. 



GENERA. 



Anneslea, Wall. 

 ? Dical}-x, Lour. 



Sariava, Reinw. 

 ? Visnea, Linn. /. 



Mocanera, Juss. 

 Reinwardtia, Korth. 

 Ternstromia, Mut. 



Toandbo, Aubl. 



Tonahea, Juss. 



Dupinia, Neck. 



Amphania, Banks. 

 Sarosanthera, Korth. 

 Adinandra, Jack. 

 Eurya, Thunb. 



Geeria, Blum. 

 Cleyera, Thunb. 



Hoferia, Scop. 



Miikopf, Kampf. 



Sukaki, Kampf. 

 Freziera, Swartz. 



Erotium, Soland. 

 Lettsomia, Ruiz et Pav. 

 Ventenatia, Pal. 

 ? Microsemma, Lab. 

 Ploiarium, Korth. 

 Laplacea, H. B. K. 



Hcemocharis, Salisb. 



IFikstrornia, Schrad. 



Lindleya, Nees. 

 Bonnetia, Mart, et Zucc. 



Kieseria, Nees. 

 Archytaea, Mart, et Zucc. 



Ixionanthes, Jack. 

 K\e\mQyerB,,Mart.etZucc. 



Martineria, Fl. Flum. 

 Catostemma, Benth. 

 Ochthocosmus , Benth. 

 Caraipa, Aubl. 

 Marila, Swartz. 



Monoporina, J.S.Presl. 



Scyphcea, C. B. Presl. 



Anisosticte, Bartl. 

 Mahurea, Aubl. 



Bonnetia, Schreb. 

 Stuartia, Catesb. 



Malachodendron, Cav. 

 Gordonia, Ellis. 



Lasianthus, Catesb. 



Polyspora, Sweet. 



Franklinia, iVIarsh. 



Lacathea, Salisb. 



Closaschima, Korth. 



Aniheeischima, Korth. 

 Schima, Reinw. 

 PjTenaria, Blum. 

 Camellia, Linn. 



Sasanqua, Nees. 



Kissi, Endl. 

 Thea, Linn. 

 ? Godoya, Ruiz et Pav. 



Godovia, Pers. 

 ? Leucoxylon, Blum. 

 ? Euryanthe, Schlechtend. 



Numbers. Gen. 33. Sp. 130. 



Sterculiacea. 

 Position. — Clusiaceae. — Ternstromiace^. — Hypericacese. 

 Dilleniacew. 



