Sawrauja. } TERNSTR@MIACE. 249 
loculus 2-6, subpendulous from the inner angle. Fruit a woody, 
depressed, globose capsule, loculicidal with persistent axis ; 
ehiscence much retarded. Seeds flat, reniform, winged on the 
back ; albumen scanty; cotyledons leafy, accumbent. 
181. Scarma Watuicutt Choisy; F. B. I. i. 289; E. D. 8. 940. 
Gordonia integrifolia F. I. ii. 572. 
Chittagong. 
A lofty tree. Vernac. Makrisal. 
83. Camellia Linn. 
Trees or shrubs; leaves coriaceous or membranous, evergreen, 
serrate. Flowers usually showy, axillary, solitary or sub- 
fasciculate, sessile or shortly peduncled. Sepals 5-6, unequal, 
within a series of subsimilar bracts, and graduating from these to 
the petals. Petals 5 or more, slightly connate below. Stamens 
numerous, outermost many-seriate, more or less connate and mon- 
adelphous, as well as adnate to base of petals, innermost 5-12 1-2- 
seriate, free. Ovary 3-5-locular; styles as many as loculi, free or 
more or less connate; ovules 4-5 in each cell, pendulous from 
inner angle. Fruit a short, woody capsule, opening loculicidally. 
Seeds usually solitary in each cell, without a wing; albumen 0; 
embryo straight with thick cotyledons. 
132, Cament1A Tura Link. C. theifera F. B. 1. i 292; 
D 
Cultivated in Chota Nagpur, sparingly, and in Chitta- 
gong; also in N. Bengal, Duars. 
A shrub, as grown for leaf; or small tree, in the seed-lines. 
Vernac. Chha. 
84. Saurauja Willd, 
Trees or shrubs; young branches brown with white lenticels, 
strigose or scaly, as are the large, usually serrate leaves with 
strong parallel veins diverging from the midrib, generally aggre- 
gated near ends of branches. Flowers usually hermap® ite, 
Mm many-, rarely few-flowered cymes or panicles, axillary or from 
above scars of fallen leaves ; bracts usually small and remote from 
calyx. Sepals 5, much imbricate. Petals 5, usually connate 
below. Stamens numerous; anthers with porous dehiscence. 
Ovary 8-5-locular; styles as many as loeuli, free or connate. 
* Twit usually indehiscent, berry-like, rarely dry and subdehiscent. 
Seeds many, small; albumen copious. 
