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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



Stuartia. This, like the Camellias, has large flowers and united 

 stamens, but the foliage is deciduous and the shrubs are hardy in the 

 North. The alternate leaves are simple, feather-veined, with notched 

 edges. The flowers are white or cream-colored with usually 5 petals. 



[Seeds ; layers ; twig cuttings.] 



KEY TO THE STUARTIAS 



*With purple spreading stamens and globular fruit \ inch or more 

 broad; shrub (5-12 feet high blooming in May and June. ROUND- 

 FRUITED STUARTIA Stuartia Malachodendron. 



*With wavy-edged cream-colored petals and curved white stamens 

 having orange anthers, July and Aug. ; capsules 5-angled, ovate; 

 6-15 feet high. ALLEGHANY STUARTIA (50) Stuartia pentagyna. 



*With concave orbicular petals, silky outside; 10-50 feet high with 

 smooth red bark peeling off in great thin layers or flakes and acute- 

 tipped narrow leaves \\-?> inches long. JAPANESE STUARTIA (51) 

 Stuartia Pseudo-camellia. 



Gord6nia. The GORDONIAS are nearly evergreen with large white 

 flowers having many united stamens, like the Stuartias, but the stamens 



Fie. 51'. Loblolly. 



FIG. 53. Frankliuia. 



are in five clusters on a cup of white petals. These plants are usually 

 trees but ai the northern border of their range (the hardiest, Gordonia 



