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short, versatile. Ovary usually 5 -celled, with several (2 to 6) pendulous 

 ovules in each. Style simple, with very short stigmatic lobes at the top. 

 Capsule woody, depressed-globular, opening loculicidally ; the valves bearing 

 the dissepiment, but leaving a free central axis. Seeds flat, vertical, reniform, 

 expanded round the outer edge into a narrow wing. Albumen thin. Embryo 

 much curved, with broad flat cotyledons and a slender radicle. — Trees. Leaves 

 coriaceous. Peduncles 1-flowered, usually erect. Flowers showy. 

 A small genus, limited to eastern India and the Archipelago. 



1. S. Noronhse, Reinw. ; Miq.Fl. Ned. Ind. i. 492. A tree or shrub of 

 great beauty, glabrous or slightly hairy on the young shoots and amongst the 

 flowers. Leaves stalked, from ovate-elliptical to oblong, 2 to 4 in. long, mostly 

 acuminate, entire or marked with a few obtuse serratures; the veins scarcely 

 conspicuous; flowers white, nearly 2 in. diameter when expanded, on pedicels 

 \ to 1 in. long, in the axils of the upper leaves or forming sometimes a very 

 short terminal raceme. — S. superba, Gardn. and Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. i. 

 246 ; Seem. Bot. Her. t. 75. Gordonia javanica^ Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4539. 



Wong-uy-chong Valley, and abundant near the top of the slopes of Little Hongkong, 

 Champion. Common in the Malayan Peninsula, and in Java, extending northward to 

 S. China and Bonin. 



7. GORDONIA, Linn. 



Sepals about 5, much imbricated, very unequal, passing from the bracts to 

 the petals. Petals about as many, the innermost the largest, all usually co- 

 hering at the base. Stamens numerous. Anthers short, versatile. Ovary 3- 

 to 5-celled (rarely 6-celled), with several (4 to 8) pendulous ovules in each. 

 Capsule woody, oblong, opening loculicidally ; the valves bearing the dissepi- 

 ments, but usually leaving a free central axis. Seeds flattish, oblique, expanded 

 at the top into an oblong wing. Albumen 0. Embryo nearly straight, with 

 flat cotyledons. — Trees. Leaves coriaceous. Peduncles 1-flowered, erect or 

 recurved. Flowers showy. 



The genus comprises several tropical or subtropical American as well as Asiatic species. 



1. G. anomala, Spreng. Syst. iii. 126. A tree, glabrous in every part 

 except sometimes the very young shoots and the flowers. Leaves thick and 

 evergreen, oblong, obtuse, 3 to 5 in. long, quite entire, narrowed into a very 

 short petiole. Flowers almost sessile in the upper axils, or 2 or 3 together at 

 the summits of the branches,' white and showy, near 3 in. diameter. Ovary 

 usually 3-celled, but sometimes 4-celled. Capsule about 1 in. long. Seeds 

 with a wing twice as long as themselves. Cotyledons oblong, with a short 

 oblique radicle. — Polyspora axillaris, Don in Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4019. 

 Camellia axillaris, Bot. Mag. t. 2047. 



Common all over the island, Champion and others. Ouly known from South China. 



8. CAMELLIA, Linn. 



Sepals about 5, very unequal, passing more or less gradually from the bracts 

 to the petals. Petals about as many, the innermost the largest, all usually co- 

 hering at the base. Stamens numerous, monadelphous, except the innermost, 

 which are nearly or quite free. Anthers short, versatile. Ovary 3- to 5-celled, 



