70 CAMELLIACE^. (CAMELLIA FAMILY.) 



the absence of the petal -like scales among the stamens. This tree (the Lin) 

 gave the family name to Linnceus. 



ORDER 25. CAMELLJACE^E. (CAMELLIA FAMILY.) 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate simple feather-veined leaves, and no stipules, 

 the regular flowers hypogynous and polyandrous, the sepals and petals both 

 imbricated in aestivation, the stamens more or less united at the base with each 

 other (monadelphous or 3- b-adelphous} and with the base of the petals. 

 Antfhers 2-celled, introrse. Fruit a woody 3 - 5-celled loculicidal pod 

 Seeds few, with little or no albumen. Embryo large, with broad cotyle- 

 dons. A family with showy flowers, the types of which are the well-known 

 Camellia and the more important Tea Plant, represented in this country 

 by the two following genera. 



1. STTJARTIA, Catesby. STUARTIA. 



Sepals 5, rarely 6, orate or lanceolate. Petals 5, rarely 6, obovate, crenulate. 

 Stamens monadelphous at the base. Pod 5-celled. Seeds 1 - 2 in each cell, 

 crustaceous, anatropous, ascending. Embryo straight, nearly as long as the 

 albumen : radicle longer than the cotyledons. Shrubs with membranaceous 

 deciduous oblong-ovate serrulate leaves, soft-downy beneath, and large short- 

 peduncled flowers solitary in their axils. (Named for John Stuart, the well- 

 known Lord Bute.) 



1. S. Virginica, Cav. Petals 5 white (!' long) ; sepals ovate ; style 1 ; 

 stigma 5-toothed ; pod globular, blunt ; seeds not margined. (S. Malachoden- 

 dron, L.) Woods, Virginia and southward. 



S. PENTAGYNA, L'Her., with cream-colored flowers, 5 styles, and an angled 

 and pointed pod, may be found in the Alleghanies of S. Virginia. 



2. OORDONIA, Ellis. LOBLOLLY BAY. 



Sepals 5, rounded, concave. Petals 5, obovate. Stamens 5-adelphous, one 

 cluster adhering to the base of each petal. Style 1. Pod ovoid, 5-valved ; the 

 valves separating from the persistent axis ; cells 2 - 8-seeded. Seeds pendulous. 

 Embryo straightish, with a short radicle, and thin longitudinally plaited cotyle- 

 dons. Shrubs or small trees, with large and showy white flowers on axillary 

 peduncles. (Dedicated by Dr. Garden to his " old master, Dr. James Gordon 

 of Aberdeen," and by Ellis to a London nurseryman of the same name.) 



1. O. LasiiintlillS, L. (LOBLOLLY BAY.) Leaves coriaceous and 

 persistent, lanceolate-oblong, narrowed at the base, minutely serrate, smooth and 

 shining ; pod pointed ; seeds winged above. Swamps near the coast, Virginia 

 and southward. May - July. Petals 1 ' long. 



ORDER 26. LINAGES. (FLAX FAMILY.; 



Herbs, with regular and symmetrical hypogynous flowers, 4 - 5-merous 

 throughout, strongly imbricated calyx and convolute pete Is, the 5 , stamens 



