TERNSTROEMIACEAE. 233 
STEW ARTIA. 
(Family Ternstroemiaceae). 
Shrubs or small trees with 
flaking bark: deciduous. Twigs 
moderate or slender, subterete: 
pith rounded, somewhat spongy. 
Buds moderate or small, solitary 
or superposed, sessile, compressed- 
fusiform, with 2 or 3 exposed 
seales. Leaf-scars alternate, half- 
round, little raised: bundle-trace 
1, large, round, at the top of the 
scar: stipule-scars lacking. (Stu- 
artia). 
Winter-character references: — 
Stewartia monadelpha.  Shiras- 
awa, 262, pl. 8. S. pseudocamellia. 
Shirasawa, 262, pl. 8. 
The stewartias are tender ex- 
cept in the south or near the 
coast. Where they can be grown 
they vie with Camellias, which 
they resemble somewhat in flower, 
Cape jessamines, and magnolias among the large-flowered 
shrubs. 
1. Buds silvery, rather small (scarcely 7 mm. long). 2. 
Buds brown, large (fully 10 mm.). (1).S. Pseudo-Camellia. 
2. Buds moderate (fully 5 mm. long). S. pentagyna. 
Buds small (2 mm. long). (2). S. Malachodendron. 
Many botanists use the name Theaceae for the family to 
which this and the next two genera belong. 
