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should be sheltered ; and shaded rather than otherwise. The usual mode 
of propagation is by layers; and the stools are sometimes protected, during 
winter, by mats. Plants, in the London nurseries, cost 5s. each; at Boll- 
wyller, 15 francs; and at New York, 50 cents. 
Genus II. 
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STUA’RTIJA Cav. Tue Struartia. Lin. Syst. Monadélphia Pentandria. 
Identification. Cav. Diss., 5. p. 393. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p 528., as Stewartia; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 573. 
Derivation. Named in honour of John Stewart, Marquess of Bute, the patron of Sir John Hill, anda 
distinguished promoter of botanical science. 
General Character, §c. Calyx permanent, 5-cleft, rarely 5-parted, furnished 
with two bracteas at the base. Petals 5. Ovary roundish. Style 1, fili- 
form, crowned by a capitate 5-lobed stigma. Capsule woody, 5-celled, 
5-valved; cells 1—2-seeded. Seeds wingless, ovate, even. (Don’s Miil., i. 
p. 573.)—A deciduous shrub, or low tree, with large white flowers. 
% 1, Srua/rt14 virer’nica Cav. The Virginian Stuartia. 
§ 
Identification. Dec. Prod., 1. p. 528; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 575. 
Synonymes. StewArtia Malachodéndron Lin. Sp., 982. ; Stuartéa marilandica Bot. Rep. ; Stewartia& 
un Style, Fy. ; eingriffliche (one-styled) Stuartie, Ger. 
Engravings. Lam, Ill., t.593.; Bot. Rep., t. 397.; and our fig. 92. 
Spec. Char.,§c. Flowers large, white, with purple filaments 
and blue anthers, usually in pairs. Leaves ovate, acute. 
Petals entire. (Don’s Mill., i. p. 573.) A deciduous 
shrub; from 6ft. to 8ft. high in Virginia, its native 
country, and attaining nearly the same height in British 
gardens. It is found in swamps in the lower parts both 
of Virginia and Carolina; and was introduced into Eng- 
land in 1742. The general appearance of the plant is the 
same as that of the preceding genus; but it forms a 
smaller bush, and the foliage has a redder hue. The 
flowers are of the same size, white, with purple fila- © 
ments and blue anthers. This plant is not so extensively cultivated 
as the other, from its being of somewhat slower growth; but its beauty, 
and the circumstance of its flowering from July to September, when 
but few trees or shrubs are in blossom, render it desirable for every collec- 
tion. It thrives best in a peat soil, kept moist; but it will also grow in deep 
moist sand. In this, as in similar cases, care should be taken that no ram- 
pant plant be placed near it, the roots of which might penetrate into 
the mass of peat or sand, and, from their greater vigour, soon occupy it, 
and destroy, or greatly injure, those of the Stuartia. The propagation of 
_this plant is the same as that of Malachodéndron; from which it is sepa- 
rated on account of a technical difference in the capsules, somewhat similar 
to that by which 72a is separated from Caméllia. There are large plants of 
this species in the Mile End Nursery. The price is the same as that of 
Malachodéndron. 
Genus III. 
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GORDO'NIA Ellis. Tue Gorvonta. Lin. Syst. Monadélphia 
Polyéndria. 
a 4 Ellis, in Phil, Trans., 1770.; Cav- Diss., 307; Dec. Prod., 1, p. 528.; Don’s Mill., 
op. 573. ; , 
