Saurauja.'] ternstrcemiace^e. 27 



united at tlie base. Stamens very numerous. Anthers versatile, opening by- 

 pores or short slits at the extremity. Ovary 3- to 5-celled, with numerous 

 ovules in each cell. Styles 3 to 5, free, or more or less united. Fruit succu- 

 lent, seldom dehiscent. Seeds small, with copious albumen, and a rather 

 small straight embryo. — Shrubs or trees, with more or less of stiff appressed 

 hairs. Leaves usually serrate, with prominent parallel veins diverging from 

 the midrib. Peduncles axillary or lateral, bearing several flowers. 

 A considerable tropical genus, both in the New and the Old World. 



1. S. tristyla, BO. Prod. i. 536, and Mem. Ternstr. t. 7. A tree or 

 shrub, the young branches rather thick. Leaves shortly stalked, obovate or 

 broadly oblong, shortly acuminate, 8 to 10 in. long, glabrous, except a few of 

 the stiff scale-like hairs so seldom wanting in the genus. Peduncles short, 

 arising from the axils of the fallen leaves on the last year's wood, bearing 

 usually 3 to 6 flowers, on pedicels 2 or 3 lines long. Sepals about 2 lines 

 long and broad. Petals rather longer. Styles and cells of the ovary 8 only. 



Hongkong, Hance, Wright. Ranges over eastern India from the Malayan Peninsula and 

 Chittagong to Khasia and Assam. 



3. TEmq-STIlCEMIA, Linn. 



Plowers usually hennaphrodite. Sepals much imbricate. Petals united in 

 a 5-lobed corolla. Stamens numerous; anthers adnate, glabrous. Ovary 2- 

 or 3 -celled, with 2 to 4 ovules suspended from near the apex of each cell. 

 Style simple, Avith a broadly 2- or 3-lobed stigma. Pruit thick and indehiscent, 

 but rather dry. Seeds few, large, horseshoe-shaped inside. Albumen fleshy, 

 often thin or scarcely any. Embryo much curved or folded longitudinally. 

 Trees or shrubs. Leaves conaceous. Pedmicles 1 -flowered, axillary or lateral, 

 curved downwards, with 2 bracteoles close to the calyx. 



A considerable tropical genus both in the New and the Old World. 



1. T. japonica, Thunb. ; Sieb. and Zucc. Fl. Jap. i. 148, t. 80. A tree, 

 perfectly glabrous in all its parts. Scales of the young leaf-buds ovate. Leaves 

 rather crowded at the ends of the branches, stalked, oblong, more or less nar- 

 rowed at both ends, 2 to 3 in. long, thick and leathery, often whitish or nisty 

 underneath. Peduncles 6 to 9 lines long. Plowers pale yellow, the corolla 

 spreading, about 8 lines diameter. Pruit globular, i to 1 in. diameter. — 

 Cleyerafragraus and C. diibia, Champ, in Linn. Trans, xxi. 115. — Temdroemia 

 japonica, T. Liislda, T. WigJdii, T.fragrans, and T. dubla, Chois. Mem. Ternstr. 

 et Camell. pp. 18, 19. 



Common in Hongkong, constituting a great part of the woods, Champion and others. 

 Widely spread over India, from Ceylon and the Peninsula to the Archipelago, and northward 

 to China and Japan. 



4. EURYA, Thunb. 



Plowers mostly unisexual. Sepals much imbricate. Petals luiited at the 

 base. Stamens usually indefinite, but seldom above 15. Anthers adnate. 

 Ovary 3-, rarely 2-, 4-, or 5-celled, with several ovules in each. Styles as 

 many, either almost free, or united to near the top. Pruit a berry. Embiyo 

 much curved in a somewhat granular albumen. — Trees or shrubs. Plowers 



