134 MANN, 



ORDER XII. TEKNSTRCEMIACE^. 



Mostly tropical trees or shrubs with alternate undivided leaves, 

 without stipules ; the regular flowers hypogynous, with the usually 5 

 sepals and dissimilar petals imbricated in aestivation, the latter often 

 united in a ring at the base. Stamens of the number of the petals and 

 alternate with them, or more usually numerous, and often somewhat 

 united with each other and with the base of the petals. Fruit a pod 

 opening by valves, or berry-like. The well-known Tea Plant and the 

 Camellia belong to this Order. 



1. EUBYA Thunb. 



Flowers unisexual or hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, imbricated. Pe- 

 tals 5, imbricated, united at the base. Stamens about 15, joined at the 

 base : anthers adnate. Ovary 3- (rarely 2 - 5-) celled, with several 

 ovules in each cell. Styles as many as cells, almost free or united 

 nearly to the top. Fruit a dryish berry. Embryo much curved, in a 

 somewhat granular albumen. Trees or shrubs, with serrate leaves. 

 Flowers axillary and small, sessile or on short pedicels. Bractlets per- 

 sistent. 



A small genus, mostly from the warmer parts of Asia and the Indian Archipelago, 

 China and Japan. 



1. E. SANDWICENSIS Gray, (Enum. No. 41.) A large and much 

 branched shrub. Leaves elliptical or oblong, coriaceous, l'-2'long, 

 i' - 1' wide, mostly obtuse at the apex, slightly cordate at the base, 

 closely serrate, reticulate-veined, very short petioled. Flowers solitary 

 in the axils, on bractless nodding pedicels, 3" - 4" long, hermaphrodite 

 (or sometimes polygamous ?). Calyx brown, with 2 small bractlets at 

 its base ; sepals 5, the exterior smaller. Corolla pale yellow, longer 

 than the calyx ; petals obovate, thickish. Stamens 10- 15, very slightly, 

 if at all, adnate to the corolla ; anthers mucronulate, longer than the 

 filaments. Ovary 3-celled. Styles separate or variously united ; stig- 

 ma subcapitate. 



Not uncommon on the mountains. 



ORDER XIH. MALVACEAE. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees ; the alternate palmately veined leaves with 

 stipules. Flowers regular, often with bractlets under the calyx. The 

 calyx mostly of five sepals, more or less united at the base, valvate in 

 aestivation ; the petals of the same number, convolute in aestivation, 

 and hypogynous. Stamens indefinite, monadelphous, united with the 



