TERNSTRAMIACE A. 
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surrounded by a fleshy, not very thick albumen, and directing its 
radicle downwards. Schima, allied at once to Sfuartia and Gordonia, 
Stuartia virginica. 

Fig. 257. 
Long. sect. of flower (2). 
FIG. 258. 
Dehiscent fruit. 
has not very numerous ascendent and flattened seeds, bordered by a 
circular wing, with thin albumen, 
often reduced to a membrane, and 
an embryo with imsymmetrical 
cotyledons, and incurved and ac- 
cumbent radicle. Pyrenaria, with 
the same flower, or nearly so, has 
an indehiscent drupaceous fruit, 
with few seeds, the embryo thick 
and fleshy, having an inflexed radicle and conduplicate or folded and 
crumpled cotyledons.' 
Sluartia virginica. 

Fie. 260. 
Long. sect, of seed, 
Fie. 259. 
Seed (5). 
II. TERNSTRŒMIA SERIES. 
Several species of the genus Zernstremia® are seen flowering in 
our greenhonses, especially 7! drevipes (figs. 261-263), an American 

1 After these genera, in the same group 
Microsemma has been.doubtfully placed, having 
polygamous, apetalous flowers, a fornicate gland 
within the base of the sepals, an indefinite number 
of stumens, and a variable number of cells in the 
ovary and the fruit. This latter is a capsule 
analogous to that of a great many of the Tern- 
stræmiaceæ, and each cell contains a descendent 
seed with superior and exterior micropyle (see 
Genera, p. 264). 
2 Mor.,ex L. ¥., Suppl., 39.—J., Gen., 362.— 
Porr., Dict., vii. 596; Suppl, v. 289; ZI. t. 
456.—DC., in Mém. Soc. Phys. de Gen., i. 408, 
t. 1; Prodr., i. 523.—Campess., in Mém. Mus., 
xvi, 403.—TuRP., in Dict, Sc. Nat., Atl. t. 151. 
—Spacu, Suit, à Buffon, iv. 61.—ENDL., Gen., 
n. 5409.— Payer, Organog., 532.—CHOIS., in 
Mém. Gen., xiv. 101.—B. H., Gen., 182, n. 8.— 
H. BN., in Payer Fam. Nat., 265.—LEM. et 
Donc. Tr. Gen., 337, 338.—Taonabo AUBL., 
