TERNSTRŒMIACEÆ. 
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mounted by a style more or less deeply' divided into five branches, 
stigmatiferous at the apex, and often reflexed when their length per- 
mits. They are sometimes very short, and immediately terminated 
by a papillose surface. In the internal angle of each cell a large 
placenta is seen, descending or attached by a kind of short foot in- 
serted at the middle of its height; all its dorsal surface is covered 
with small anatropous ovules,’ directed in various ways. The fruit is 
a berry, sometimes almost dry at maturity; it encloses numerous 
seeds, lodged in the pulp, and which under their coats present a fleshy 
albumen surrounding a straight or fornicate embryo, with cotyledons 
generally short. In certain Sawraujas, which have been generally 
distinguished under the name of Scapha, the two lateral cells of the 
ovary disappear ; and there only remains three superposed to the 
sepals, 1, 2, and 3, and the style has only three stigmatiferous divi- 
sions. This genus includes some sixty species,‘ although a much 
larger number have been described. These are trees or shrubs, gene- 
rally covered with rough, sometimes scaly hairs. They have alternate 
simple leaves, often dentate like a saw, with numerous secondary 
parallel nerves. The flowers are axillary or lateral, generally white 
or pink, sometimes slightly odoriferous, often rather large and beau- 
tiful, which makes them valued among us for cultivation. They are 
collected in simple or ramified clusters of cymes, in which each pedicel 
bears at some distance from the flower two or several bractlets. The 
genus exists in the warmest regions of Asia, Oceania, and America. 
TV. BONNETIA SERIES. 
Bonnetia’ (fig. 267) has regular hermaphrodite flowers. The con- 
vex receptacle bears five imbricated sepals, and five alternate petals, 
longer, and contorted in the bud. The gynæceum is formed of a 

1 Tt is a little so in Draytonia (A. Gray, Trans. Linn. Soc., xviii., 159.—SEEM., Voy. 
Amer. Exped., Bot., i. 206, t. 15), of which it 
has been proposed to make a distinct genus. 
? The youngest being the superior. 
3 Cxors., in Mém. Gen., xiv. 118. 
4 Detess., Le. Sel., iii. t. 25.—DC., Mém. 
Ternstr., t.2-7.—WALL., Pl. As. Rar., iii. t. 148, 
178.—Hoox., Icon., t. 331, 341.—H. B. K., 
Nov. Gen. et Spec., vii. t. 648-650 (Palava).— 
BENN., Pl. Jav."Rar., t. 36, 37.—M1Q., Fl. Ind.- 
Bat., i. p. ii, 478; Suppl., i. 480.— Korrn., 
Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot., t. 19.—Hook. F., in 
Her., Bot., t. 16; Fl. Vit., 14.—Tr. & PL., in 
Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 4, xvii. 265.— Bot. Mag., t. 
3982.—Wate., Rep. i. 370; ii. 801; v. 131; 
Ann. i., 120; iv. 349; vii. 364. 
5 Mart. & Zucc., Nov. Gen. et Spec. i. 
114, t. 100 (nee Scures.)—Nerrs & Manrt., in 
Nov. Acta, Nat. Cur., xii. t. 6.—CAMBESS., in 
Mém. Mus., xvi. 409,—ENDL., Gen., n. 5417.— 
Cuots., in Mém. Gen., xiv. 159.—B. H., Gen., 
187, n. 26.—Kieseria Nrers, in Neuw. Reis., i. 
104; in Flora (1821), 298. 
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