Ternstramia?^ Temstroemiacec^ . 107 



Fl. April ; white. To judge from a drawing in Herb. Perad. the 

 petals are sometimes increased in number. 

 Endemic. 

 Wood as in M.ferrea. 



XX.— TERNSTRCEMIACE/E. 



Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, simple, without stip.; fl. 

 regular, bisexual or dioecious, usually bracteate ; sep. 5 (rarely 

 3 or 4), distinct, often unequal ; pet. 5, distinct or connate at 

 base, imbricate ; stam. numerous (rarely few), distinct or 5- 

 adelphous, free or adnate to base of pet. ; ov. 2-5-celled, with 

 numerous (rarely 1-2) ovules in each cell (rarely i-celled, 

 with 3 parietal placentas), styles more or less connate ; fruit 

 indehiscent, or a loculicidal capsule ; seeds with scanty endo- 

 sperm. 



Fruit indehiscent, anthers basifixed. 

 Fls. bisexual. 



Stam. glabrous. Seeds 2-4 . . . .1. Ternstrcemia. 

 Stam. hairy. Seeds numerous . . . .2. Adinandra. 



Fls. dioecious 3. EURYA. 



Fruit dehiscent, anthers versatile . . . .4. GORDONIA. 



With the exception of Eiirya acuininaia all our 7 species are montane. 



I. TERNSTROinilA, L. 



Trees or shrubs ; leaves coriaceous, lat. veins invisible ; 

 fl. axillary bisexual ; sep. 5 ; pet. 5 ; stam. numerous, anth. 

 introrse, connective somewhat prolonged ; ov. 2-celled, with 

 I or 2 ovules in each cell ; fr. indehiscent, 2-4-seeded ; seeds 

 large. — Sp. 25 ; 3 in F/. B. Ind. 



Leaves subacute, fls. yellow . . . . . i. T. japonica. 

 Leaves very obtuse, fls. white 2. T. emarginata. 



I. T. japonica, Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 335 (1794). 

 Cleyera gyinnant/iera, W. and A., Thw. Enum. 40. C. P. 778. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 280. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 91 {T. gymniiftthera). 



A moderate-sized, much-branched, tree ; bark thick, soft ; 

 young shoots glabrous ; 1. 1A-3 in., closely placed, lanceolate 

 or oval, tapering at base, slightly acuminate, subacute, entire, 

 thick, petioles | in., stout, red ; fl. ^-^ in. diam., solitary, in 

 axils of fallen 1., ped. J— | in., rather stout, curved, glabrous, 

 bracts 2, immediately beneath fl., oval, obtuse ; sep. rounded. 



