570 TERNSTROEMIACEAE (TEA OK CAMELLIA FAMILY) 



the upper 3-lobecl, downy -whitened underneath, gJahrous or slightly dowi^ 

 above ; calyx and bracts densely stellate-puberiilent ; calyx in anthesis 2-8 cm. 

 long, its lobes ovate or ovate-oblong; petals 6-12 cm. lung, rose-color; capsule 

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

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

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



3. H. oculirbseus Britton. (Crimson-eyed or Wuite Hibiscus.) Similar; 

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

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

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



4. H. incanus ^Yendland. Resembling the preceding ; Zeaves 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. 



5. 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 Vose-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 halberd- 

 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. Tri6xum L. (Flower-of-ax-hour.) A low rather hairy annual; 

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

 longest ; fruiting calyx inflated, membranaceous, b-ioinged, icith numorous dark 

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

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



TERNSTROEMlACEAE (Tea or Camellia Family) 



Trees or shrubs, toith alternate simple feather-veined leaves and no stipides, 

 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 S-b-adelphous) and with 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 aud 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. — Shrubs 

 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 Stewart, — Marquis of Bute.) 



1. S. Malachodendron L. Petals 5, white, 2.5 cm. long; sepals ovate ; style 

 1; stigma 5-tooihed ; pod globular, blunt; seeds not margined. (^S'. virginira 

 Cav.) — Woods, Va., and southw. 



2. S. pentagyna LMIer. Leaves larger, L3-L5 dm. long; sepals acute; 

 petals often ('» ; styles 5, distinct; pod angled, pointed ; seeds wing-margine<l.— 

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



