TEBNSTROEMIACEAE. 



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STEWAKTIA. 

 ( Family Ternstroemiaceae ) . 



Shrubs or small trees with 

 flaking bark: deciduous. Twigs 

 moderate or slender, subterete: 

 pith rounded, somewhat spongy. 

 Buds moderate or small, solitary 

 or superposed, sessile, compressed- 

 fusiform, with 2 or 3 exposed 

 scales. Leaf-scars alternate, half- 

 round, little raised: bundle-trace 

 1, large, round, at the top of the 

 scar: stipule-scars lacking. (Stu- 

 artia). 



Winter-character references: - 

 Stewartia monadelpha. Shiras- 

 awa, 262, pi. 8. S. pseudocamellia. 

 Shirasawa, 262, pi. 8. 



The stewartias are tender ex- 

 cept in the south or near the 

 coast. Where they can be grown 

 they vie with Camellias, which 

 they resemble somewhat in flower, 



Cape jessamines, and magnolias among the large-flowered 



shrubs. 



1. Buds silvery, rather small (scarcely 7 mm. long). 2. 

 Buds brown, large (fully 10 mm.). (1). S. Pseudo-Camellia. 



2. Buds moderate (fully 5 mm. long). S. pentagyna. 

 Buds small (2 mm. long). (2). S. Malachodendron. 



Many botanists use the name Theaceae for the family to 

 which this and the next two genera belong. 



