70 CAMELLIACEJK. (CAMELLIA FAMILT.) 



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

 gave the family name to Linmtus. 



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



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

 the regular floircrs hypogyiwus and polyandrous, the sepals and petals both 

 iinhricdti'd in (Estivation, the stamens more or less united at the base icith each 

 other (monadelphoup or 3 - 5-adclphous) and with the base of the petals.- 

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

 Seeds few, with little or no albumen. Embryo larg-e, 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. STUAKTIA, Catcsby. STUARTIA. 



Sepals 5, rarely 6, ovate or lanceolate. Petals 5, rarely G, obovatc, crenulate. 

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

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

 albumen: radicle longer than the cotyledons. Shrubs with membranaceojjs 

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

 pcduncled flowers solitary in their axils. (Named for Jo/in Stuart, the well- 

 kuown Lord Bute.) 



1. S. Virgillica, 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'ller., with cream-colored flowers, 5 styles, and an angled 

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



2. GORI>6NIA, Ellis. LOBLOLLY BAT. 



Sepals 5, rounded, concave. Petals 5, obovatc. Stamens 5-adclphous, one 



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

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

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

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

 pedunelrs. (Dedicated by Dr. Garden to his "old master, Dr. James (Jordou 

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



1. O. L.nsi:ititllllS, L. (LORLOLLY B.VY.1 Leaves coriaceous and 

 persistent, InnccolatC-ODlong, narrowed at the base, minutely serrate, smooth and 

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

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



ORDER 26. LINAGES. (FLAX FAMILY.; 



Herbs, with regular and symmetrical Jiypogynous flowers, 4 - 5-rnerous 

 throughout, strongly imbricated calyx and convolute petals, Hie 5 stamens 



