40 TERNSTRCEMIACEzE. 



Flowers small, not above ^ inch, very numerous on the 

 older and leafless parts of the small branches. . . eurya. 



Flowers ^ or i inch across, few, yellow. 



Leaves entire ; seeds with soft warty, red covering ; a large 

 tree. ternstrcemta. 



Leaves serrate ; seeds winged ; tree gordonia. 



TERNSTRCEMIA. f.b.l 24 11. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves firm and leathery ; 

 entire or serrate. Flowers bisexual. Sepals imbricate. 

 Petals imbricate, connected at the base. Stamens many ; 

 anthers glabrous, fixed firmly on the ends of their 

 filaments. Ovary of two or three cells, each with two 

 pendent seeds, style simple. Fruit indehiscent, seeds 

 few, pendent from the top of each cell. Embryo bent, 

 with very short half-cylindrical cotyledons. 



Species 28, mostly in tropical America ; but about six in the 

 warmer parts of Asia and the Indian archipelago. 



Named by Linnoius in honour of a Swede ^ C TerMSlrcem ^ who as a 

 naturalist travelled over China in 1745. 



Tcrnstroemia japonica Thunbergh; F.B.L i 280, II 

 I. A very fine, shady tree, growing to 40 feet or more, 

 with straight stem and hemispherical crown of foliage ; 

 bark smooth and wrinkled; branches rather crowded, 

 and swollen at the point of attachment. Leaves crowded 

 near the ends of the branches : stalks J4 inch, red, 

 thick : blades 2% by lJ4, oblong-obovate, entire, thick, 

 glabrous. Flowers hanging from the axils of the fallen 

 leaves and below the green ones, fragrant : stalks I inch, 

 very slightly two-edged, erect in bud, afterwards bent 

 down : bracteoles two, close under the sepals and hardly 

 distinguishable from them. Sepals five, imbricate. Petals 

 spreading 54 inch, pale yellow, stiff and easily crushed, 

 connate at the base. Stamens many: anthers opening 

 at the side, and ending in minute points. Ovary two or 



