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surrounded by a fleshy, not very thick albumen, and directing its 

 radicle downwards. Schima, allied at once to Stuartia and Gordonia, 



Stuartia virginica. 



Fig. 257. 



Long. sect, of flower (£). 



Fig. 258. 

 Dehiscent fruit. 



Stuartia virginica. 



has not very numerous ascendent and flattened seeds, bordered by a 



circular wing, with thin albumen, 



often reduced to a membrane, and 



an embryo with insymmetrical 



cotyledons, and incurved and ac- 



cumbent radicle. Pyrenaria, with 



the same flower, or nearly so, has 



an indehiscent drupaceous fruit, 



with few seeds, the embryo thick 



and fleshy, having an inflexed radicle and conduplicate or folded and 



crumpled cotyledons. 1 



Fig. 259. 

 Seed (f ). 



Fig. 260. 

 Long. sect, of seed. 



II. TERNSTUCEMIA SERIES. 



Several species of the genus Ternstrcemid 2 are seen flowering in 

 our greenhouses, especially T. brevipes (figs. 261-263), an American 



1 After these genera, in the same group 

 Microsemma has been doubtfully placed, having 

 polygamous, apetalous flowers, a fornicate gland 

 within the base of the sepals, an indefinite number 

 of stamens, and a variable number of cells in the 

 ovary and the fruit. This latter is a capsule 

 analogous to that of a great many of the Tern- 

 strcemiacece, and each cell contains a descendant 

 seed with superior and exterior micropyle (see 

 Genera, p. 264). 



2 MuT.,ex L. P., Suppl., 39— J., Gen., 362.— 

 Poie., Diet., vii. 596 ; Suppl., v. 289 ; III,, t. 

 456. — DC, in Mem. Soc. Phys. de Gen., i. 408, 

 t. 1; Prodr., i. 523. — Cambess., in Mem. Mus., 

 xvi. 403.— Tuep., in Diet. Sc. Nat., Atl., t. 151. 

 — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 61. — Endl., Gen., 

 n. 5409. — Payee, Organog., 532. — Chois., in 

 Mem. Gen., xiv. 101.— B. H., Gen., 182, n. 8.— 

 H. Bn., in Pager Fam. Nat., 265. — Lem. et 

 Dcne., Tr. Gen., 337, 338.— Taonabo Aubl., 



