I lO TcrnstrcemiacccB. \Gordonia. 



Twigs hairy; 1. ^-i in., very rigid, glabrous, margin very 

 strongly revolute ; stam. 6-10. 



Montane zone from the highest elevations down to about 4000 ft.; 

 very common. Fl. all the year ; white. 



Mountains of India and Malaya, extending to the Fiji Is. and to 

 China and Japan. 



These varieties are considered species in Fl. B. Ind., but I agree with 

 Thwaites that no permanent characters can be found to separate them. 



2. E. acuminata, DC. Mem. Tcrti. 26 (1855). 



E. jdpofihd, var. fi. Thw. Enum. 41. h. membranacea., Gardn. 1. c. 

 444 (?) C. P. 1078. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 285. Royle, 111. t. 25. 



A shrub, 8-10 ft., twigs sparsely hairy, buds silky; 

 1. 2^-3 in., narrowly oblong-lanceolate, long-acuminate or- 

 caudate serrulate, glabrous except on midrib beneath ; fl. 2-5 

 together in the axils ; stam. 12-20. Otherwise as in 

 E. japomca. 



Moist low country, extending up to 2000 ft.; very common. Fl. all 

 the year ; white. 



Also in Eastern Himalaya, Assam, Malay Peninsula and Islands. 



Thwaites combines this also with E. japonica., and perhaps rightly, 

 but it is readily separable by its narrow attenuated leaves. 



The habit and foliage of these species of Eurya are very like those of 

 Tea, and young plants have been frequently mistaken^ for it, and even 

 cultivated in nurseries. Hence the plant has acquired the name of ' Wild 

 Tea' among the planters. 



4. GORDONIA,^ Ellis. 

 Trees ; fl. large, solitary, axillary, bracteate, bisexual ; 

 sep. 3-5, unequal ; pet. 5, often connate at base; stam. very 

 numerous, free or in 5 bundles, adnate to base of pet, anth. 

 versatile ; ov. 5 -celled, with several ovules in each cell, style 

 simple, stigma 5-lobed ; fruit a woody capsule, dehiscing 

 loculicidally into 5 hard valves and a central axis ; seeds 

 numerous, compressed, with an oblique oblong wing on one 

 side above; cotyledons ovate, flat or plicate. — Sp. 10; 6 in 

 FL B. Ind. 



Stam. not connate. Fl. white i. G. zeylanica. 



Stam. connate in 5 bundles. Fl. crimson . . . 2. G. SPECIOSA. 



I. G. zeylanica, Wight., III. i. 99 (1840). 

 Thw. Enum. 40. C. P. 788, 2417. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 291. 



* In memory of James Gordon, a London nurseryman, and corre- 

 spondent of Linnaeus. 



