TERNSTRŒMIACEX. 237 
the styles remain free in almost the whole of their height and the 
ovules are five or six in number in each cell, more or less distinctly 
descendent. In certain others, the corolla of which are often of 
large dimensions and rich colouring (fig. 253), there is often, but not 
constantly, an interior stamen, free, or nearly so in front of each 
petal; this distinguishes Camellia,' ge- 
nerally considered as constituting a 
separate genus, but which only ought to 
form a section of the genus Tea. Thus 
considered, this genus contains some 
dozen species? frutescent or arbores- 
cent, natives of tropical Eastern Asia, 
and of the Indian Archipelago. The 
leaves are alternate persistent, simple, 
dentate, coriaceous or membranous. 
The petiole is exstipulate and usually 
articulated at the base. The flowers 
occupying the axils of the leaves, especially of the upper ones, are 
solitary or united in small cymes, the pedicels bearing one or several 
bracts smaller than the sepals to which they are analogous. 
Beside Zhea are placed the nearly-allied genera of Gordonia (figs. 
254, 255) and Laplacea. The former has an indefinite number of 
ovules in each cell, a generally elongated capsule, and seeds prolonged 
above into a membranous wing. ‘The stamens may be united below 
into a circular cushion, and the single style dilates in its upper 
part into a stigmatiferous head with short radiated lobes. 
In Zaplacea, on the contrary, the perianth and the androceum 
remain the same ; the styles, from five to ten in number, are free to 
the base, or the stigmatic tissue may directly crown each of the 
ovary cells. 
Thea (Camellia) japonica, 

Fie. 253, 
Flower. 
Gesch. Bot, 148, t. 81.—? Cordyloblaste 
1 L,, Gen., n. 848.—J., Gen., 262.—LAMK., 
Henscu., in Bot. Zeit. (1848), 604. 
Dict., i. 572; Suppl. ii. 48; Td/., t. 504—Cav., 
Diss,, vi. 305.—CamBEss., in Mém. Mus., xvi. 
415.—DC., Prodr., i. 529.—Turpr., in Dict. des 
Se. Nat., Atl., t. 152.—Spacu., Suit, à Buffon, 
iv. 84.—Enp.L., Gen., n. 5425.—Cuols., in Wém, 
Gen., 146.—SEEM., in Trans, Linn, Soc., xxii. 
337.—B. H., Gen., 187, n. 24.—H. BN., in 
Payer Fam. Nat., 265.— Tsubaki KÆMPF. 
Amen., 851.—ADANS., Fam. des P1., ii. 399.— 
Sassangua N£Es, in Sieb. Nippon, ii. 13.—Cal- 
pandria, Bu., Bijdr.,178.—Korri., Verh. Nat. 
2 Dunam., Arbr., ed nov. t. 71.—Jacq., Ic. 
Rar., t. 553.—S1£68. & Zuce., Fl. Jap., t. 82, 83. 
—Watt., Pl, As, Rar., iii. t. 256.—KoRTH. in 
Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot., 149 (Calpandria).— 
SEEM., Voy. Her. Bot., t. 76-78.—ANDR., Bot. 
Repos., t. 25.—Bot. Reg. t. 567, 942, 1078.— 
Bot. Mag., t. 42, 2080, 2784, 4976, 5044, 5152. 
—Watr., Ann. ii. 178; iv. 351; vi. 367 
(Camellia), 373. 
