252 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
GENERA 
J. THELEÆ. 
1. Thea L. — Flores hermaphroditi regulares ; receptaculo conico. 
Sepala 5, v. rarius 6-, a bracteolis ad petala gradatim aucta, valde 
imbricata. Petala 5, v. rarius 6, basi breviter inter se et cum 
staminum exteriorum filamentis plus minus alte, sæpe vix connai, 
valde imbricata. Stamina  , exteriora breviter v. rarius alte 1-adelpha; 
interiora 5, v.rarius 10-15( Camellia), libera ; antheris extrorsis, 2-locu- 
laribus, versatilibus ; loculis linearibus, sæpe in connectivo crassiuseulo 
apice acutato v. acuminato marginalibus, rimosis. Germen 3-5-loctr 
are ; stylis totidem fere a basi liberis v. sæpius ultra medium in tubur 
connalis, apice libero tubulosis, summoque apice stigmatosis. Ovula 1 
loculorum singulorum angulo interno 2-seriatim inserta, anatropa, raphe 
contigua, subhorizontalia v. plus minus descendentia. Capsula subcarno%: 
demum sicca, loculicide dehiscens ; seminibus in loculis sæpius solitaris 
V. paucis crassis nunc inæquali-compressis ; embryonis exalbuminos 
carnosi Cotyledonibus crassis plano-convexis, basi circa radiculant 
superam vaginantibus. — Arbores v. frutices ; foliis alternis (Semper"" 
renlibus), coriaceis v. membranaceis, sæpiusserratis ; floribus axilaribts 
v. subterminalibus, solitariis v. subcymosis paucis, pedunculatis Y- = 
sessilibus. (Asia trop, Arch. ind.) — Vid. p. 227. 
2. Gordonia ELL. ! — Flores hermaphroditi ; perianthio* fere The® 
1. In Phil. Trans., LX (1770), 518, t. 41. . H., Gen., 186, n. 22- 2 ri. 
dé en., 275. — Lauk, Dict., 11, 770 : Fam.nat., 265 (incl. : Antheischène me 
Suppl., 11, 816 ; 14, t. 594.— DC., Prodr., t,  Carria GAron., Dipterospermum GRIP: 
582. — SPACH, Suit, à Buffon, à 17% klinia MaRsH, Lacathea SALISB: » 
ENDL., Gen., n. 5424. — PAYER, Organcg., S 
WEET). ; 
532, t. 149, — À. GRAY, Gen, il, t, 140-1492, 2. LE albidis v. rosels- 
