Camellia] xxiv. TERNSTRCEMIACEJE. (W. T. Tliiselton Dyer.) 293 



2. C. caudata, Wall. PL As. Ear. iii. 36 ; leaves elliptic-oblong caudate- 

 acuminate sparsely puberulous beneath, peduncles imbricate-bracteate short, 

 stamens and styles hairy. Wall. Cat. 978 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 559, t. 601, f. ii. ; 

 Trans. Agric. & Hort. Soc. Ind. v. (1838\ t. A. 



KHASIA MTS. and SILHET, Walllch. &c. ; BHOTAN HIMALAYA. Booth: MISHMI HILLS, 

 Griffith. 



^ranchlets slender ; buds silky. Leaves 3-4 by f-1 in ., serrate, membranous with a 

 strong midrib pubescent beneath; petiole in., pubescent. Flowers about 1 in. diaru., 

 white. Sepals ovate, silky externally. Petals obovate, puberulous externally. Capsule 

 f in. diam., trigonously-spherical, 1-celled, 1-seeded. 



SECT. II. Camellia proper. Flowers erect, sepals deciduous. 



3. C. drupifera, Lour. Fl. Cochin. 411, ex Seem, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxii. 344; leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong tapering below with a long 

 acuminate apex coriaceous, stamens glabrous, styles nearly free woolly at 

 the base. C. Kissi, Wall, in As. Res. xiii. 429 ; Jo urn. As. Soc. Beng. iv. 48, 

 t. 2 ; PL As. Rar. iii. 36, t. 256. C. keina, Don Prodr. 224. C. mastersia, 

 Griff. Notul. iv. 539. C. simplicifolia, Griff. Notul. iv. 560, t. 604, f. ii. C. sym- 

 plocifolia, Griff. Itin. 40. C. caudata, Griff. Itin. 40 (not of Wall.}. C. oleifolia, 



Wall. Cat. 976. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA; alt, 3-7000 ft.; from Nipal, Wallich, to Bhotan, Griffith; 

 ASSAM and KHASIA MTS., alt. 5-8000 ft. ; TENASSERIM and ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Heifer. 



A shrub or small tree, with much divided slender branches. JBranchlets slightly 

 puberulent ; buds with loose scales, sparingly pubescent. Leaves 3-4 by l-l 4 in., serrulate 

 especially towards the apex, often slightly revolute ; veins faint ; petiole in. Flowers 

 14 in. diam , white, with the odour of cherry-laurel. Sepals orbicular, silky externally. 

 Petals obovate, emarginate, scarcely hairy externally. Ovary woolly. Capsule nearly 

 1 in. diam., at first pyriform and pubescent, ultimately depressed-globose and smooth. 

 Seeds 1-3. C. Sasanqua, of China and Japan, has less acuminate leaves, obcordate or 

 2-lobed petals and connate styles. 



4. C. lutescens, Dyer; leaves elliptic-oblong tapering or rounded 

 below caudate-acuminate membranous, styles short, stigmas recurved, cap- 

 sule drupaceous (when young only ?). 



MISHMI HILLS, high up on Laim-planj-thaya, Griff. Journ. p. 38, Kew Distrib. 777 

 and 779. 



A shrub with much divided pale grey branches and buds silky within, Leaves 2-3 4 

 by 1-1 in., closely serrate ; midrib prominent below and pale; petiole ^ in. puberu- 

 lous. Flowers 1 in. diam., crowded towards the ends of the branches, sessile, white, 

 then yellowish, fragrant. Sepals orbicular, membranous, thinly pubescent internally. 

 Petals obovate, smooth. Ovary with long silky hairs. 



5. C. 1 $p. n. ; a shrub 10 ft. with puberulous shoots and pubescent buds and 

 petioles. Leaves 4-7 by 1 1-2 in., oblong, tapering at both ends, crenate serrate, 

 obtuse acuminate, papery, glabrous on both surfaces ; petiole | in. Flowers 

 1 in. diam. erect; the orbicular, minutely mucronate sepals and obovate 

 petals both pubescent externally; styles 5, distinct, very short; ovary silky. 



MOULMEIN, Lobb, alt. 3000 ft. ; a single specimen. 



I have no means of identifying the plant found by Griffith on the Mishmi moun- 

 tains (Journ. 38 and 45), and called by him Camellia axillaris. 



14. ARCHYTJ&A, Martins. 



Leaves evergreen, semiamplexicaul, smooth. Mowers on a lateral com- 

 pressed peduncle, 3 or more together, rarely solitary Bracts subfoliaceous. 



