292 TERNSTRCEMIACE^. Stuartia. 



ring of the filaments. Ovules a pair in each of the 5 cells, ascending, anatropous. Capsule 

 loculicidallv 5-valved ; seeds lenticular, with crustaceous coat ; embryo straight, with oval 

 plane cotvledous and slender caulicle, nearly the length of the albumen. 

 2. GORDONIA. Calyx imbricately 3-4-bracteolate, of 5 rounded coriaceous and concave 

 canescent sepals. Petals 5, silky-tomeutulose exterually. Stamens 5-adelphous. Style 

 columnar; stigma 5-lobed ; ovules 4 to 8 in each cell, anatropous, resupinate-pendulous. 

 Seeds winged or wingless, destitute of albumen; embryo straightish, oblicjue, with the 

 broad and thin cotyledons somewhat undulate-plicate, much longer than the caulicle. 



1 . STUARTI A (at first written Stewartia), L. (John Stuart, Marquis of 

 Bute, statesman and botanist.) — Showy-flowered shrubs (two of E. United States 

 and one or two peculiar ones in Japan), more or less pubescent with soft and sim- 

 ple hairs ; with oval and petiolate barely serrulate deciduous leaves, and short- 

 peduncled or subsessile mostly solitary axillary or subterminal flowers. Petals 

 white or cream-color. — Act. Ups. 1741, 79, t. 2 (Catesb. Car. ii. App. 113, t. 13), 

 & Gen. ed. 4, no. 1025 ; L'Her. Stirp. Nov. vi. 153, t. 73, 74 (with correct orthog- 

 raphy and the two species); Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 223; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 97, 

 t. 138, 139. Malachodendron, Mitchell, Act. Phys.-Med. Acad. Nat. Cur. viii. 

 App. 216. Steivartia & Malachodendron, Cav. Diss. v. 302, 303 ; Juss. Gen. 292, 

 275 ; Lam. 111. iii. t. 593 ; DC. Prodr. i. 528. 



§ 1. StuIrtia proper. Styles wholly combined and a 5-crenulate stigma: 

 sepals and petals only 5 : capsule very woody, globular ; seeds marginless, 

 smooth and shining. — Gray, 1. c. 99. 



S.* Malachodendron, L.i Shrub 6 to 12 feet high: leaves soft-pubescent beneath, as 

 also the rounded sepals : petals inch or two long: stamens purple. — Spec. ii. 698 {Malaco- 

 dendron) ; Marsh. Arbust. 149; L'Her. 1. c. t. 73; Walt. Car. 176; Audubon, Birds Amer. 

 t. 17 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 224. S. Virginica, Cav. Diss. v. 303, t. 159 ; Michx. Fl. ii.43 ; DC. 

 Prodr. i. .528; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 99, t. 138 ; Garden, xxxiv. 280, with fig. S. Marilmidica, 

 Donn, Cat. Hort. Cantab, ed. 3, ace. to Andr. Bot. Rep. vi. t. 397. S. nabilis, Salisb. Prodr. 

 Stirp. 386. — Woods in the low and middle country, Florida and Louisiana to N. Virginia 

 and W. Arkansas ; fl. spring. 



§ 2. Malachodendron, Gray, 1. c. Styles distinct, slender ; stigmas in- 

 trorse-subcapitate : petals often 6 : capsule ovate-pyramidal and pointed, less 

 woody ; seeds dull, wing-margined. — Malachodendron, Cav. 1. c. 302. 



S. pentagyna, L'Her. Pubescence of longer and sparser more deciduous hairs, and 

 leaves larger than in the preceding (5 or 6 inches long): sepals acute: stamens pale. — 

 Stirp. Nov. vi. 155, t. 74; Nouv. Duham. i. 15, t. 6; Smith, Exot. Bot. ii. t. 110; Torr. & 

 Gray, 1. c. ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3918; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 100, t. 139.2 $. montana, Bartr. 

 Trav. 334. Malachodendron ovatum, Cav. Diss. t. 158, f. 2; Michx. 1. c. ; Lam. 1. c. ; Liiull. 

 Bot. Reg. t. 1104. M. pentar/i/nmn, Chois. Me'm. Terust. 49. CavaniUa florida, Salisb. 

 Prodr. Stirp. 385. — Woods, mountains of Carolina, Georgia, and adjacent Tennessee and 

 Kentucky ; fl. early summer. 



2. GORDONIA, Ellis. Loblolly Bay. (Dr. Garden, who sent the origi- 

 nal species to Ellis, desired the genus to be named in honor of Dr. James Gordon 

 of Aberdeen, his preceptor, but Ellis, in correspondence with LinniT^us, substi- 

 tuted /ames Gordon, a well known London nurseryman of that day.) — Shrubs or 



1 This name has been altered from S. Virginica on grounds of priority. The coincidence of the 

 specific name with that of the subsequently applied sectional name Malachodendron is unfortunate, but 

 scarcely forms a valid reason for discarding the former. 



2 Add Sargent, Gard. & For. i. 415. 



