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or membranous-marginate (Jfalachodendron) ; albumen usually scanty; 

 embryo straight, cotyledons ovate or elliptical ; radicle inferior. — 

 Shrubs ; leaves alternate membranous, deciduous ; flowers 1 axillary 

 solitary, sessile or shortly pedunculate {North America, Japan 2 ). See 

 p. 238. 



5 ? Schima Reinw. 3 — Flowers nearly of Gordonia; outermost petal 

 sometimes much concave or subcucullate. Germen 4, 5-locular ; 

 style simple or wide patent stigmatiferous lobed at apex ; ovules in 

 each cell 2-8, laterally affixed, descending. Capsule globose, usually 

 depressed ligneous, loculicidal ; columella persistent. Seeds flat sub- 

 reniform, margin (except interior) wide marginate-winged ; albumen 

 thin or 0; embryo rather fleshy; cotyledons subfoliaceous, unequal, 

 flat or corrugate at base ; radicle inferior incurved accumbent at base. 

 — Trees ; leaves alternate perennial ; flowers pedunculate, axillary 

 solitary, shortly racemose or subumbellate, few ; peduncle 2-brac- 

 teolate 4 (Trqp. America, Ind. Archipelago*). See p. 239. 



6. Pyrenaria Bl. 6 — Flowers of Schima (or Gordonia) ; sepals very 

 unequal, gradually accrescent from bractlets to petals, much imbri- 

 cated. Stamens oo, all or exterior ones connate ; anthers oblong, 

 versatile. Germen 5-locular ; styles 5, free or more or less long 

 connate ; ovules in each cell 2, incompletely anatropous, ascending. 

 Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent ; putamen sometimes thin ; seeds 7 

 oblong thick or unequally compressed ; testa hard ; cotyledons of 

 exalbuminous embryo corrugate- plicate or conduplicate ; radicle in- 

 ferior inflexed. — Trees ; leaves alternate, entire or serrate ; flowers 

 shortly pedunculate axillary, oftener nutant ; other characters of Gor- 

 donia (Ind. Arch., Malaysia*). 



1 Large or moderate in size, white or pink; — Hook, p., in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxiii. 160 



stamens sometimes violet, or rather purple. (Gordonia). — Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 491; 



4 Spec. 5, of which 2 are N. American. Sm., Suppl., i. 484. — Seem., in Bonplandia, vii. 



Fxot. Bot., 1. 101.— Ande., Bot. Repos., t. 73. — 49 ; Voy. Her., Bot., t. 75. — Bot. Mag., t. 



Lhee., Stirp., t. 73, 74.— SlEB. & Zr/CC, Fl. 4539 (Gordonia). — Walp., Sep., v. 135; Ann., 



Jap., t. 96.— A. Gbay, Gen. III., t. 138, 139; ii. 178; vii. 366. 



Man., ed. 5, 104.— Chapm., Fl. S. Unit. States, 6 Bijdr., 1119. — Chois., in Mem. Gen., 



61.— Bot. Mag., t. 3918— Walp., Rep., i. 374. xiv. 171.— Enjdl., Gen., n. 5429.— B. H., 



3 Ex Bl., Bijdr., 129. — Chois., in Mem. Gen., 185, n. 19. — Fusgnaxis Gbiff., Notul., 

 Gen., xiv. 111. — B. H., Gen., 185, n. 18. iv. 560, t. 603. 



4 Gen. perhaps to be united with Gordonia, 7 Exterior nearly of Thea, but smaller. 



for it differs only by its inferior radicle, but the 8 Spec. 6, 7, Korth., in Verh. Nat. Gesch. 



form of the fruit seems the same as in the Sect. Bot., t. 30. — Seem., in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxii. 



Franklinia of Gordonice. 340. — Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 493. — 



6 Korth., in Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot., t. 29. Walp., Ann., vii. 366. 



