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TERNSTROEMIACEAE. 
GORDONIA. 
(Family Ternstroemiaceae). 
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Trees or shrubs: evergreen or 
deciduous. Twigs moderate, ter- 
ete: pith continuous. Buds usually 
solitary, round-ovoid, naked. Leaf- 
scars alternate, half-round or 
shield-shaped, scarcely raised: 
bundle-trace 1, transverse or Y- 
shaped, compound: stipulescars 
lacking. Leaves, when persistent, 
sessile, oblanceolate, serrate. 
(Franklinia). 
Like stewartias, the gordonias 
are large-flowered plants much 
prized where they can be grown, 
which is only in the South or 
near the seashore or Eastern 
lakes. The Franklinia, G. Alta- 
maha, possesses a special interest 
in that, though extensively culti- 
vated, all of the specimens of it 
have been propagated directly or 
indirectly from a single tree cultivated by Bartram near 
Philadelphia. 
Notwithstanding its conspicuous flowers, it is 
not refound in the wild state, even in the locality from 
which Bartram’s specimen came, though repeated search has 
been made for it. 
Leaves evergreen, tomentulose beneath. (1). G. Lasianthus. 
Leaves deciduous: pith rather large, coffee-colored. 
(2). G. Altamaha. 
