CHAP. XIX. TERNSTROMIACEZ. MALACHODE’NDRON. 377 
MALACHODE’NDRON Cav. Calyx attended by a single bractea. Petals 
5—6, with the limb finely notched. Ovary marked with 5 furrows. Styles 
5, free, separate to the base. Stigmas capitate. Carpels capsular, 5, 
connected, 1-seeded. (Don’s Miil., i. p. 564.) 
Srua’rt14. Sepals 5, connected almost to the middle, bibracteate. 
Petals 5. Style crowned by a 5-lobed stigma. Capsule woody, 5-celled, 
5-valved. Cells 1—2-seeded. Seeds wingless. (Don’s Mill., i. p. 564.) 
Gorvo’n14. Sepals 5, coriaceous. Petals 5, adhering to the tube of the 
stamens, and connected together at the base. Style crowned by 5 stigmas. 
Capsule 5-celled, 5-valved ; cells 2—5-seeded. Seeds ending in a leafy wing. 
(Don's Mill., i. p. 564.) 
Genus I. 
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MALACHODE’NDRON Cav. Tue Maracuopenpron. Lan. Syst. 
Monadeélphia Polyandria. 
Identification. Cay. Diss., 5. p. 502. ; Juss. Gen., 275.; Mitch, Gen.,16. p. 38.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 528. ; 
and Don’s Mill., 1. p. 572. 
Synonymes. Stuartia L’Hérit. : Stew4rtia L. 
erivation. From malakos, soft, and dendron, a tree; in allusion, perhaps, to the quality of the 
timber: or, possibly, from the flowers resembling those of the mallow, the Greek name for which 
is malache. 
Gen. Char., §c. Calyx 5-cleft, furnished with two bracteas at the base. 
Petals 5, with a crenulate limb. Ovary 5-furrowed. Styles 5, unconnected. 
Stigmas capitate. Carpels 5, capsular, connected, l-seeded. Seeds un- 
known. (Don’s Mill., 1. p.572.) A deciduous low tree, with large white 
flowers. 
¥ 1. MALACcHODE’NDRON Ova‘tuM Cav. The ovate-/eaved Malachodendron. 
Identification. Cav., 1. c.; Lindl. Bot. Reg.; Don’s Mill, 1- p. 272. 
sage Stuartia pentagfnia L’Heérit,; StewArt’a Malachodéndron Mill.; Stewartia A cing 
Styles, Fr. 
Engravings. Smith’s Exot. Bot., t.101.; Michx. t. 58.; Bot. Reg., t. 1104. ; and our fig. 91. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate, acuminated. Flowers axil- 91 
lary, solitary, almost sessile. Petals waved, cut, of a pale 
cream-colour. (Don’s Mill., i. p.572.) A deciduous tree, 
attaining, in its native country, the height of 20ft.; but, 
in England, generally seen as a bush, and seldom above 
10 ft. or 12 ft. high. It is a native of Virginia, Carolina, 
and Georgia, on mountains ; and it was introduced into ; 
England in 1795, producing its large white flowers in 
August and September. It has been, since the period of 
its introduction, in frequent cultivation among other American or peat- 
earth plants. The largest specimens which we have seen in England are 
at Dropmore and White Knights: the former are between 10 ft. and 12 ft. 
high, and form wide-spreading bushes, flowering freely every year. Their 
flowers are very large (24 in. or more across), and slightly fragrant. There 
are a great many trees nearly equally large at White Knights, which flower 
magnificently every year, and make a fine appearance during the months of 
August and September, when they are in full bloom. The plant would 
have a much better effect if trained up with a single stem, so as to form a 
small tree. For this purpose, after a plant has been two or three years 
established, it may be advisable to cut it down to the ground; and, from the 
shoots that it will throw up, to select one, and train it as the stem of the 
future tree. The soil in which it is generally grown is a mixture of loam 
_and peat, in which the latter prevails; but, in the Mile End Nursery, it 
‘shoots vigorously, and flowers freely, in deep sandy loam. The situation 
