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involute vernation as if 3-nerved ; flowers 1 axillary pedunculate soli- 

 tary or cyrnose; bractlets 2, often minute or 2 {Warm Asia and 

 America 3 ). 



11 ? Eurya Thunb. 4 — Flowers nearly of Eroteum, small, dioecious; 

 stamens, co or sometimes small (5-15), adnate to corolla at base; 

 anthers basifixed glabrous. Germen 2-5-locular ; styles 2-5, more 

 or less long" connate. Other characters of Eroteum. — Small shrubs ; 

 leaves often serrate-crenate and glabrous ; inflorescence of Eroteum 5 

 {Warm reg. of Asia, Lid. Arch. 6 ). 



12. Visnea L. fil. 7 — Flowers nearly of Ternstrcemia ; receptacle 

 shortly cupuliform. Perianth and stamens slightly perigynous 

 (of Ternstrcemia). Germen slightly immersed in base of receptacle, 

 3-locular ; styles 3, distinct ; ovules in each cell 2, 3, inserted 

 below apex of internal angle, descending ; micropyle introrse supe- 

 rior. Fruit indehiscent, immersed and included in base of accrescent 

 fleshy calyx and receptacle ; seeds few, 3-quetrous-piriform ; albu- 

 men fleshy ; embryo curved or hippocrepiform ; cotyledons semiterete 

 shorter than radicle. — An evergreen tree ; leaves alternate articulate 

 exstipulate ; flowers 8 in axillary few-flowered cymes {Canary Isls. and 

 Madeira*). 



13. Anneslea Wall. 10 — Flowers nearly of Visnea ; receptacle con- 



1 Small, more rarely large. 



2 Gen. hence scarcely distinguished from 

 Temstrcemia, thence from Eurya. 



8 Spec. 10-12,of which 10-12 are Amer. H.B., 

 PI. Mquin., t. 5-9 {Freziera).— H. B. K., Nov. 

 Gen. et Spec, v. 209 (Freziera). — Wight & 

 Arn., Prodr., i. 86 {Cleyera). — Hook. & Arn., 

 Beech. Toy., Hot., t. 33 {Cleyera). — Tul., in 

 Ann. So. Nat., ser. 3, viii. 326. — Griseb., Fl. 

 Brit. W.-Ind., 103 (Cleyera, Freziera); Cat. 

 PI. Cub., 36 {Cleyera).— Sieb. & Zucc, Fl. 

 Jap., t. 81 {Cleyera). — Tr. & Pl., in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 261 {Freziera). — Bot. Mag., 

 t. 4546 {Freziera).— Walp., Rep., i. 370 ; Ann., 

 i. 117; ii. 177; iv. 349 {Freziera) ; vii. 362 

 {Cleyera, Freziera). 



4 Fl. Jap., 11, t. 25.— R. Br., App. to Abel's 

 Chin., 379, ic— DC, in Mem. Gen., i. 410; 

 Prodr., i. 525. — Cambess., in Mem. Mus., xvi. 

 405. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 66. — Endl., 

 Gen., n. 5410. — Chois., in Mem. Gen., xiv. 123. 

 — B. H., Gen., 183, n. 12.— H. Bn., in Payer 

 Fam. Nat., 265.— Geeria Bl., Bijdr., 124. 



5 Gen. scarcely distinguished from preceding. 



6 Spec. 10 (described to 35). Wight & 

 Arn, Prodi:, i. 86. — Wight, III, t. 38. — 

 Lom>., Bot. Cab., t. 1213.— Seem., Yoy. Ser., 

 Bot.,t.74<; Fl. Uit., 14, — Korth., Verh. Nat. 

 Gesch. Bot., t. 17.— MiQ„ Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. 

 p. ii. 470. — Benth., Fl. Rongh., 27. — A. 

 Gray, Amer. Fxplor. Fxp., Bot., i. 209. — 

 Walp., Rep., i. 369 ; Ann., iv. 342 ; vii. 363. 



7 Suppl., 36, 251. — Lamk., Diet., iv. 208. — 

 Endl., Gen., n. 5408. — Pater, Organog., 585, 

 t. 149. — Chois., in Mem. Gen., xiv. 130. — 

 B. H., Gen., 182, 981, n. 7.— H. Bn, in Payer 

 Fam. Nat., 265. — H. Schacht, Zur Kennt. d. 

 Visnea Mocanera. Regensb. (IS ID), c. tab. — 

 Mocanera J., Gen., 318. 



8 Small, white. 



9 Spec. 1. V. Mocanera L. F., loc. cit. — 

 Bort, Ins. Fort., t. 7. — Webb, P/iyt. Canar., 

 t. 66 B. — Walp., Ann., vii. 361. 



10 PI. As. Rar., i. 5, t. 5.— Endl., Gen., n. 

 5106. — Chois., in Mem. Gen., xiv. 129. — 

 B. H., Gen., 182, n. 6.— H. Bn., in Payer Fam. 

 Nat., 265 (ncc Roxb.). 



