570 TERNSTKOKMIACEAK (TEA OK CAMELLIA FAMILY) 



the upper 3-lobed, downy-whitened underneath, glabrous or slightly 

 above; calyx and bracts densely stellate-puberulent ; calyx in anthesis 2-3 cm. 

 long, its lobes ovate or ovate-oblong; petals 6-12 cm. long, rose-color; i-<ipsuh> 

 glabrous, subglobose, abruptly beaked. River-banks and fresh or brackish 

 marshes, near the coast, e. Mass., southw. ; also lake-shores and swamps 

 (especially near salt springs) westw. to Ont. and Mo. July-Sept. 



3. H. oculiroseus Britton. (CRIMSON-EYED or WHITE Hiiuscus.) Similar ; 

 calyx in anthesis 3-4 cm. long, its lobes ovate-lanceolate ; petals white, with a 

 crimson blotch at base; capsule ovoid, gradually pointed. Marshes near the 

 coast, N. J., and southw. July-Sept. 



4. H. incanus Wendland. Resembling the preceding; leaves ovate to lanceo- 

 late, toothed, rarely lobed; calyx in anthesis 2.5-3 cm. long; ^petals white, 

 yellowish, or pink, crimson-blotched at base ; capsule ovoid, beaked, closely 

 stellate-tomentose and loosely hirsute. Swamps, Md., and southw. 



6. H. lasiocarpos Cav. Leaves broadly to narrowly ovate, soft-pubescent 

 upon both surfaces, the upper surface bearing many simple or subsimple hairs ; 

 bractlets ciliate; petals white or rose-color, crimson-blotched at base; capsule 

 short-cylindric, subtruncate, densely villous-hirsute. Marshes, Ga. to Tex., 

 northw. in Miss, basin to Ky., Ind., 111., and Mo. July-Sept. 



6. H. militaris Cav. (HALBERD-LEAVED R.) Smooth throughout; lower 

 leaves ovate-heart-shaped, toothed, 3-lobed ; upper leaves commonly hctlhci-d- 

 form ; peduncles slender; corolla 5-7.5 cm. long, flesh-color, with purple base ; 

 fruiting calyx inflated; seeds hairy. River-banks, Pa. to Minn., and southw. 



7. H. TRIONUM L. (FLOWER-OF-AN-HOUR.) A low rather hairy mnnutl ; 

 upper leaves 3-parted, with lanceolate divisions, the middle one much the 

 longest; fruiting calyx inflated, membranaceous, Q-winged, with numerous dark 

 ciliate nerves; corolla sulphur-yellow, with a blackish eye, ephemeral. Culti- 

 vated and waste ground, rather local. (Nat. from Eu.) 



TERNSTROEMIACEAE (TEA OR CAMELLIA FAMILY) 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate simple feather^veined leaves and n<> xf /pules, 

 the regular flowers hypogynous and poly androus, the sepals and petals both 

 imbricated in aestivation, the stamens more or less united at the base vith > <></> 

 other (monadelphous or 3-5-adelphous) and icith the base of the petals. Anthers 

 2-celled, introrse. Fruit a woody 3-5-celled loculicidal pod. Seeds few, with 

 little or no albumen. Embryo large, with broad cotyledons. A family with 

 showy flowers, the types of which are the well-known CAMELLIA and the more 

 important TEA PLANT. 



1. Stewartia. Stamens monadelphous. Ovules 2 in each cell, ascending. 



2. Gordonia. Stamens 5-adelphous. Ovules 4-8 in each cell, pendulous. 



1. STEWARTIA L. 



Sepals 4, rarely 6, ovate or lanceolate. Petals 5, rarely 6, obovate, crenulate. 

 Stamens monadelphous below. Pod 5-celled. Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, crusta- 

 ceous, anatropous, ascending. Radicle longer than the cotyledons. Shrubt 



with membranaceous deciduous oblong-ovate serrulate leaves, soft-downy 

 beneath, and large short-peduncled flowers solitary in their axils. (Named 

 for John Stuart, or as formerly often written Sfnnn-t. Marquis of Bute.) 



1. S. Malachodndron L. Petals 5, white, _'.-"> cm. long; sepals ovate; style 

 1; stiuMiia "i-tontlu-d ; pod globular, blunt ; seeds not margined. (S. rirginira 

 ( 1 av.) Woods, Ya.. and southw. 



2. S. pentagyna I/H6r. Leaves larger. 1.3-1.5 dm. long; sepals acute; 

 petals often <> ; styles 5, distinct; pod angled, pointed ; seeds wing-margined. 

 Mts. of Ky. and N. Car. to Ga. 



