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sistent. Petals 8, longer than the sepals, broad-lanceolate. 

 Stamens 8, hypogynous : filaments subulate : anthers small, 

 white. Ovary globose, green : style very short : stigma 6- 

 cleft, spreading, persistent. Berry globular, green, 6-celled, 

 rather larger than a black currant i seeds very numerous, small, 

 roundish, compressed, black, buried in the pulp. 



ORDER XXX. TERNSTRCEMIACE.E. 



Calycine sepals 5, concave, unequal, coriaceous, im- 

 bricated, obtuse, persistent, generally bracteolated. 

 Petals 5, inserted on a hypogynous disk, often com- 

 bined at the base. Stamens eo, hypogynous ; filaments 

 short ; anthers bilocular. Ovary ovate : styles 2-5. 

 Fruit ovato-globose, with the cells corresponding in 

 number with that of the styles, either a dry berry and 

 indehiscent, or a capsule and dehiscent. Seeds oc, 

 attached to a central column : albumen none, or in a 

 very small quantity : embryo straight, bowed, or fold- 

 ed back, with the radicle turned to the hilum : coty- 

 ledons oblong. 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate exstipulated coriaceous 

 leaves, and flowers peduncled axillary and terminal. 



I. TERNSTRCEMIA. 



Calycine sepals 5-6, bibracteolated at the base. 

 Petals 5-6, coalescing at the base. Stamens co in two 

 rows : anthers adnate, oblong, glabrous. Styles united 

 into 1. Berry dry, 2-celled ; cells 3-4-seeded. De 

 Cand. 



Trees, natives of America: with the peduncles 1 -flowered, 

 bracteolated at the base. Named, in honour of Ternstrrem, a 

 Traveller in China. Lunan. 



1. Ternstroemia meridionalis. West India Tern- 

 strcemia. 



Leaves very entire obovate subemarginate, pedun- 

 cles scarcely longer than the flowers. 



