Eurya.| MALVACEAE. 41 
bud. Stamens indefinite, rarely equal in number to the petals and 
alternate with them, hypogynous, often shortly united at the base with 
each other or with the base of the petals. Ovary superior , ied ote 
or almost completely divided into 3 or more cells with 2 or more ovules 
in each. Styles either as many and free from the base, or more or less 
united into a single style, sometimes very short, with as many yoann 
lobes as ovary-cells, Seeds with or without albumen. Embryo traight 
or inflected, the radicle next the hilum. — Trees or shrubs, with ae 
alternate toothed leaves, without oe 
A considerable Order of the tropics of both Worlds, ta a few genera extending to 
temperate zones, among which the Tea-plant ms Camellia 
1. EURYA, Thunb. 
Flowers mostly unisexual. ee and petals 5, much Lgabiniet the 
latter united at the base. mens seldom above 15; anthers ce 
vary 3-(rarely 2-, 4- or rie. with several ovules in sank cell. Styl 
almost free, or united to near the oe Fruit a berry. Embryo je 
curved in a what granular albumen. — Flowers small, axillary, 
Eyed hesaace ies by Soraiaien bracteoles. 
mall genus of southern and eastern Asia, with a few species in the Samoa and 
vie istnaite 
1. E. Sandwicensis, Gray, Bot. U. S. E. Exp. p. 209. — A low, much 
branching tree, the ultimate branchlets with appressed hairs. Leaves 
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petioles of 1D), shes or shortly acuminate, serrulate, subcordate. 
Flowers polygamous, solitary, on nodding pedicels of 3—4”. Bracteoles 
at the base of the calyx small, rounded. Sepals 2—3”, dark purplish, 
coriaceous, suborbicular, persistent. Petals (early deciduous in the fertile 
flowers) ovate or obovate, 3—4“, rather gang Sota Stamens 10—15, 
free, very short, 1/2’, the filaments half as long as the oblong mucronate 
anthers. Styles 3 or 2, distinct, short, Lit capitate stigmas. Berry 
dryish, globose, 3“ or more in diam, Seeds many, reniform, with a thin 
testa. Albumen scanty. Cotyledons thick and broad, folded upon the 
radicle, which is of about the same ~~ and partly overlapped by them. 
ot uncommon in forests of the entire group 
8 var. — Leaves larger, rounded or acute at the base. 
Kauai, Kealia (Wawra). 
Orper XIII. MALVACEAE. 
Sepals united into a 5-(rarely 4- or 3-)lobed calyx, the lobes valvate in 
ens in 
into a tube or column round the ovary, free at their ends, Aidiioes 
