90 HYPERICACE.E TERNSTROMIACEjE. 



Fl. small, greenish-white, April ; fr. C. S. — This beautiful tree yields 

 a green fruit and a large quantity of indifferent gamboge. (Roxb.) 

 Does not possess the elements of Gamboge. (Wight.) 



2. ovali/olius, Roxb. (fl. ind. 2. p. 632 ; — W. and A. pr. 1, p. 102 ;— 

 /. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 26. — Stalagmites cambogioides. Moon's Cat. 

 Ceylon, pi. — Cambogia Gutta, Burm. fl. ind. ex pte.) 5 Ceylon. Fl. 

 very small, greenish-white, H. S. fr, July. 



3. dulcis, Roxb. (/. ind. 2, p. 631 ;—B. M. 58, /. 3088 ;— Wight, icon. 

 1, t. 192.) b Moluccas, Penang. Fl. smallish, greenish-white, June 

 and July ; fr. C. S. 



NoRYSCA, Spach. (in Wight, ill. \,p. 113.) 



1. chinensis, (Hypericum chinense, L. ; — DC. pr. 1, p. 545. — H. mo- 

 nogynum, L.;—B. M. 10, t. 334 ;— Roxb. ft. ind. 3, p. 400.) % China. 

 Fl. large, gold-coloured, and fr. the greater part of the year. 



2. cernua (Hypericum cernuum, Roxb. fl. ind. 3, p. 400.) "b Hurdwar, 

 Shreenagur. Fl. large, gold- coloured, Jan. Feb. and March ; fr, 0, 



3. patula, (Hypericum patulum, Thunb. — H. uralum, Buch. ; — B. M. 

 50, /. 2375.) ^ Nepal, Kemaon, Khassya Mountains. — Has been 

 introduced into H, C. G- FL ^ 



Haronga madagascariensis, Choisy. ^ Madagascar, Bourbon. — Vismia 

 sessilifolia, Pers. ^ Guiana. — V. reticulata, Choisy. ^ Guiana. — V. 

 guianensis, Pers, ^ Guiana. — V. rufescens, Pers. ^ Guiana, — V. bra- 

 siliensis, Choisy. 'b Brazil. — V. cayennensis, Pers. ^ Cayenne. — No- 

 rysca mysorensis, Am. 5 Mysore, Neelgherry, — N. Hookeriana, Wight. 

 ^ Peninsula of India. — Brathys japonica, Wight, ^ Khassya Moun- 

 tains, Martaban, — B. Wightiana, Wight, ^ Neelgherry. — ? Ochran- 

 the arguta, Lindl. ; B. Reg, 21, t. 1819. B China. 



ORDER LVI.— TERNSTROMIACEJE, DC— Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 79. 



Trees or shrubs, according to Lindl,, forming 28 genera, to which our 

 materials refer 132 species : 56 for S. America, Mexico and the W, Indies; 

 57 for the E. Indies ; 13 for China and Japan ; 4 for N. America ; and 

 1 for Guinea. Of the E. Indian forms, chiefly discovered in Java, Cey- 

 lon, both Peninsulas of India, the Khassya Mountains, Assam, and Nepal, 

 1 belongs to Cochlospermum ; 9 to Ternstrumia ? 1 to Anneslea ; 1 to Adi- 

 nandra ; 9 to Eurya ; 4 to Cleyera ; 12 to Saurauja ; 9 to Gordonia; 7 to 

 Camellia ; 1 to Thea ; 2 to Schina ; — to Pyrenaria ; and 1 to Reinwardtia, 

 Geeria. Bl. as perhaps not distinct, (Wight.) is here joined to Eurya. 



The most remarkable plant of the tribe is the Tea, of which by far the 

 best information will be found in W. Griffith's Report on the Tea-plant of 

 Upper Assam. 



