78 Ternstroemiacecz- Eurya. 



1, EtRYA. 



Flowers dioecious. Sepals 5. Petals 5, cohering at the 

 base. Stamens from 5 to 15. Fruit a berry. Evergreen 

 shrubs with glabrous often crenate leaves and small white 

 flowers on axillary fascicled peduncles. About ten species, all 

 Asiatic. The name is said to be derived from svpvs, broad, 

 ample, in allusion to the flowers ; but it is hardly applicable, the 

 flowers being rather small for the family. 



1. E. latifolia variegata. Under this name we have a 

 pretty shrub in our gardens. Leaves quite glabrous, entire, 

 oblong-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, variegated chiefly on 

 the margin with pale yellow. A native of Japan, and probably 

 requiring protection in severe weather. This is perhaps one 

 of the many forms of E. Japonica, a very variable species. 



2. CAMELLIA (including Thed). 



Sepals 5 or 6, passing gradually from bracteoles into petals, 

 the latter slightly cohering at the base. Stamens many. Cap- 

 sule woody, 3- to 5-celled ; cells usually 1 -seeded ; seeds exal- 

 buminous. The Camellias are usually treated as greenhouse 

 plants, but as the common single one succeeds very well in the 

 south-western counties with slight protection, it is included 

 here. 



1. G. Japonica. It is unnecessary to particularise varieties 

 here or introduce a detailed description. As an out-door shrub 

 some of the original varieties grow well in sheltered situations 

 and produce their flowers very freely after a mild winter. 



The Tea-tree (Thea Chinensis), referred to this genus, is 

 grown by some amateurs more on account of the interest at- 

 tached to it than for ornament. 



Stachyurus prcecox and Actinidia polygama, syn. Trocho- 

 stigma, are members of this family, the former from Japan and 

 the latter from Eastern Siberia. Neither of them is at all 

 common in gardens. The latter is of climbing habit, bearing 

 cordate serrate petiolate leaves and white fragrant flowers 

 appearing in Summer, and followed by edible berries. The 

 former has small greenish-yellow pendent racemose flowers, 

 in Spring preceding the leaves. 



