78 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Poedloneuron. 



W. Ghats of Travancore and Tinnevelly at 2,000 to 

 4,500 ft. 



A large evergreen tree with a hard reddish wood. Vern. 

 Tarn. Puthangkolli ; Mai. Puli vayila. 



Family XXIII. TERNSTROEMIACEAE. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing. Leaves usually cori- 

 aceous and simple, alternate, penninerved, serrate or entire, rarel} T 

 stipulate. Flowers axillary, solitary or fascicled, or in terminal 

 or axillary racemes or panicles or springing from the trunk, 

 regular, 2- rarely 1-sexual. Sepals usually 5, free or shortly con- 

 nate, imbricate or very rarely valvate. Petals usually 5, usually 

 connate and much imbricate. Stamens usually indefinite and 

 adnate to the base of the petals, sometimes monadelphous ; 

 2-locular, erect, basifixed. Disk 0. Ovary free or rarely ^-inferior, 

 3-5-many-celled ; styles as many as the cells, free or connate. 

 Ovules 1, 2 or many in each cell. Fruit a berry or capsule. 

 Seeds with or without albumen. 



Leaves entire, obovate, obtuse ; flowers '8 in. across ; fruit a 

 berry 1. Ternstroemia. 



Leaves crenate or serrate : 



Flowers very small in axillary fascicles ; fruit a berry 2. Eurya. 



Flowers 1/5 in. across, solitary ; fruit dehiscing by 5 valves spreading 

 from a central column 3. Gordonia. 



1. Ternstroemia, Linn. 



Glabrous evergreen trees or sometimes shrubs. Leaves cori- 

 aceous, usually entire. Flowers usually dioecious, solitary or 

 fascicled, axillary or lateral; peduncles often recurved and 

 2-bracteate. Sepals 5. Petals 5, connate at the base like the 

 sepals, broadly imbricate. Stamens in the c? and bisexual 

 flowers numerous. Ovary 2-3-celled, rarely incompletely so ; 

 cells usually 2-ovulate ; ovules pendulous ; stigmas 2-3, subsessile, 

 often lobed. Berry with a thick rind. Seeds large, horseshoe- 

 shaped or oblong ; albumen rarely absent. 



TEENSTROEMIA JAPONICA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 280. Cleyera gymnan- 

 thera, W. & A. 87 ; Wt. Ic. t. 47 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 91. 



Flowers pale yellow, '7 in. across, in the axils of the leaves or 

 of fallen leaves or lateral on the branchlets. Berries 2-seeded, 



