60 CAMELLIACE^E. (CAMELLIA FAMILY.) 



3. T. heterophylla, Vent. Leaves larger (6' -8' wide), deep green 

 above, white-tomentose beneath. Mountains of North Carolina. June and 



2. CORCHORUS, L. 



Sepals 5. Petals 5, convolute in the bud. Stamens mostly numerous, sep- 

 arate. Style slender. Stigma dilated, crenulate. Capsule mostly elongated, 

 silique-like, loculicidally 2-valved, many-seeded. Herbs or shrubby plants, 

 with alternate serrate petioled leaves, and small yellow flowers on short pedun- 

 cles opposite the leaves. Stipules deciduous. 



1 . C. siliqilOSUS, L. Stem much branched, hairy in lines ; leaves ovate 

 and lanceolate, smooth; peduncles 1-2-flowered; stamens numerous; capsule 

 linear, compressed, 2-celled, many-seeded. Near Mobile, Alabama, and Key 

 West. Stems 1 - 2 high. Capsule 2' long. 



ORDER 25. CAMELLIACE^E. (CAMELLIA FAMILY.) 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate exstipulate leaves, and regular hypo- 

 gynous polyandrous showy flowers. Sepals and petals 5-6, imbricated 

 in the bud. Stamens numerous, united at the base into a ring, or into 

 sets placed opposite the petals, and adnate to their bases : anthers 2-celled, 

 introrse. Ovary 2-5-celled, 2 - many-ovuled. Styles 2-5, distinct or 

 united. Capsule 2-5-cellcd, mostly loculicidally dehiscent Albumen 

 scarce or none. 



1. GORDONIA, Ellis. LOBLOLLY-BAY. 



Sepals 5, roundish, concave. Petals 5, thick, obovate, united at the base. 

 Stamens united into 5 sets. Ovary 5-celled, with 4-8 pendulous ovules in each 

 cell. Styles united. Capsule loculicidally 5-valved, woody. Seeds angular or 

 winged. Flowers axillary. 



1 . GORDONIA proper. Stamens short, inserted into the fleshy 5-lobedcup which 

 adheres to the base of the petals ; capsule ovoid, 5-valved. Leaves coriaceous, peren- 

 nial. Flowers long-peduncled. 



1. G. Lasianthus, L. Sepals and petals silky; leaves obovate-oblong, 

 narrowed into a petiole, finely serrate. Swamps in the lower districts, Florida 

 to North Carolina, and westward. July and August. A tree 30 - 50 high. 

 Flowers 2' wide, white. 



2. FRANKLINIA. Stamens long, distinct, inserted into the base of the petals; 

 capsule glolwse, hcuUcidally 5-valved above the middle, and septicidally 5-valved below. 

 Leaves deciduous. 



2. G. pubescens, L'Herit. Sepals and petals silky; leaves obovate- 

 oblong, sharply serrate, white beneath ; flowers short-peduncled. Georgia and 

 Florida, near the coast. A small tree. Flowers 3' wide, white. 



