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e little Dem buds, - 
552 TERNSTRÆMIACEÆ. 
With the view of determining this point I have examined a 
largë collection of the Assam plant, made by Mr. Masters, a 
tolerably complete series of flowering specimens of the China 
plants cultivated in. Assam, from the same gentleman, 
specimens of the Tea plant cultivated in Chusan which 
are only in bud, and lastly the living plant as it exists in the 
garden. of the estate of Pringitt near Malacca. 
- The following are the principal differences of each of the 
above :— 
Assam plant: : ui large, parts Stank, leaves very large, 
very acuminate or cuspidately acuminate, occasionally acute, 
in the dried state blackish, and not of a leathery appearance. 
Leaves of the calyx smooth, except the margins which are 
ciliately pubescent, veins of the petals complete, ovarium quite 
smooth or slightly pubescent. Branches of the style dilated 
at the apex. Radicle of the embryo small, and plumule large. 
China plant cultivated i in Assam.—Stature smaller and much 
more contracted. Leaves ‘much smaller, obtusely acuminate, 
and of pale leathery appearance, leaves of the calyx ciliately 
pubescent, ovarium densely silky-pubescent. 
The Chusan plant, is very dwarf and contracted, leaves 
small, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, blackish and not of a 
leathery appearance, leaves of the calyx ciliately pul 
Ovarium densely silky-pubescent. 
The living plants at Pringitt.—Stature continkied and Len 
ves very small, always obtuse, generally emarginate, light, 
green, of a leathery appearance. | Leaves of the calyx pu- 
bescent. Connectives of the anthers broad and emarginate, 
ovary densely sericeo-villous. Branches of the style. dudila-- 
ted at the apex. Cotyledons unequally auriculate at the 
base, one of the auricles covering the apex of the large je 
cle, plumule small, 
ll agree in the nodding direction of the fiue the: 
Facta of the pedicels, the three-celied ovarium with 4 
ovula to each cell, the tipai style, and the ome 
