292 xxiv. TERNSTRCEMIACE^E. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) [Gordonia. 



Capsule 1-1J in. ; back of valves sulcate. Thwaites does not appear to have seen spe- 

 cimens of this plant, which differs from O zcylanica in its sessile, more coriaceous 

 leaves with slightly revolute margins when dry, and its larger flowers. 



6. Gr, speciosa, Thwaites Enum. 40 ; leaves sessile broadly elliptic 

 rounded and retuse at the apex entire coriaceous. Carria speciosa, Gard. in 

 Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 7. 



CKYI.ON ; damp forests of the Central Province, rather uncommon, alt. 5000 ft. and 

 upwards, Gardner, &c. 



A tree 40-50 ft. JBranchlets with the. leaves crowded at their extremities ; bark 

 grey, cracking longitudinally. Buds glabrous. Leave* ."<-"> by l.J-3 in., slightly revo- 

 lute when dried; midrib strong, channelled above; veins obsolete. Floirers 2-4 in. 

 diam . subsessile, reddish-purple. Sc/xd* and vetal* orbiculai -oblong, obcord.ue ; 

 smooth, margins ciliate ; petals faintly silky externally towards the base. CapinUe 

 1 | in. long ; back of valves sulcate above. 



GORDOM.Y A.V>MAI,A, N///V//V. *'!/*( iii- I'-'D, is figured in Hot Reg. 349, under the 

 name of Camellia axillaris, Ilo.fl>. ///*., and is state 1 to have b.-en introduced by l)r. Rox- 

 burgh into tlie Calcutta Botanie (Jardrn from rulo-lVn.-ing. 1 have -ecu, lnm 

 specimens except from 8. China, whence it is probably not indigenous in Penang. 



13. CAMELLIA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves evergreen, serrate, coriaceous or membranous. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary, or a i, sessile or shortly stalked, often 



handsome. /v///x 5-(J, unequal, graduating from the bracts towards the 

 petals. Pct(tlx slightly coherent at the base. W'UHCHX numerous, the outer- 

 most in many rows, slightly or aim >st wholly nu)iiadelphous, adherent to 

 the base of the petals ; the innermost, 5-12, free. Ocar>/ :j-:-relled ; styles 

 free to the base, or more or less united ; ovules 4-f> in each cell, pendulous. 

 ( 'ft/>.<ufe woody, usually short, loculicidal. Seeds mostly solitary in each cell, 

 wingless, albumen 0; embryo straight, cotyledons thick, radicle short, 

 superior. DISTRIB. Trop. and East. Asia and Malay Archipelago. Species 

 about 14. 



SECT. I. Thea, Linn. Flowers nodding, sepah persistent. 



1. C. theifera, ///. Xntnl. iv. 55s, t. 601, f. i. & iii. ; Trans. Agric. Soc. 

 Calc. v. (1838), t. C; leaves elliptic-oblong acute, or cuspidate-acuminate pu- 

 berulous on the nerves beneath, peduncles 2-3-bracteate short, styles and 

 stamens glabrous. Thea chinensis, L inn.: Seem, in Tr<in*. Linn. *S'oo. xxii. t. 01. 

 T. assamica, Masters in ./>/////. A>fn'<:. <(' Hovt. Sc. I ml. iii. (1H44), (53. Assam 

 Tea, Wall. Journ. Asiat. S<><: Jjr,,,/. iv. 48, t. 2. Camellia? Scottiana, Wall, 

 Cat. 3668, (see Journ. Linn. Snc. xiii. 328). Camellias sp., Griff. Trans. 

 A<iric. & ffort. /Soc. Ind. v. (1838), t. B. Eurya angustifolia, Miqud in Herb. 

 Hohenack. 483 (a cultivated form). 



UPPER ASSAM, Wallich; CACHAR (fide T. Anderson}. DISTRIB. China. 



A shrub, 3-6 ft. high.' Branchlets glabrous ; buds silky. Leaves 4-8 by U-2A in. 

 tapering at either end, more or less serrate, membranous ; petiole in. Flowers l in. 

 diam., white. Sepals orbicular, glabrous, with membranous ciliate edges. Petals broadly 

 obovate. 8f.//l'.i united for f their length. Capsule leathery, trigonous ; cells 1- rarely 

 2-seeded. Seeds f in. diam., nearly globose or obtusely angled, smooth, pale brown. 

 Possibly the wild stock of the tea plant. The cultivated forms vary with more con- 

 tracted habit, smaller, more obtuse and coriaceous leaves, and a pubescent calyx. In 

 J. W. Bennett's Ceylon, 277, the Tea plant is alluded to and figured as having been found 

 in that island by the Dutch. This, however, was not confirmed by the writer or by 

 any subsequent observer. 



