



Camellia] XVI. TERNSTRCEMIACE^E 61 



A. Flowers nodding, capsule supported by the persistent sepals. 



1. C. Thea, Link; Brand. F. Fl. 25.— Syn. C. Bohca, Griffith, the China 

 plant, and C. theifera, Griffith, the indigenous Assam plant : C. theifera, Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. i. 292; Thea sinensis (not chinensis), Linn. Sp. Plant. Tli< Tea 

 plant. Vern. Let pet, Burm. 



A shrub or small tree, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Fl. solitary, peduncles 

 with a few distinct bracts, sometimes a second flower in the axil of one of them. 

 Sepals round, very obtuse. Petals white, obovate, obtuse, glabrous or pubescent 

 on the back. Stamens glabrous, ovary villous, styles 3 glabrous, connate 

 beyond the middle. Capsule depressed, 3-cornered, 3-seeded. Testa hard, 

 shining. 



Indigenous in Upper Assam (discovered 1834) and in the hilly country to the east of 

 it ft he Assam plant has larger more acuminate leaves, and has a more arborescent habit 

 than the shrub cultivated in Chiua). Also indigenous in Upper Burma, Katlia district, 

 2,000 ft., Ruby Mines district. 7,000 ft., and the northern Shan States. Cultivated ages 

 ago in China and Japan. Since 1840 cultivated extensively in Assam. Cachar, Sikkim, 

 the N.W. Himalaya and the Xilgiris. Grown in Ceylon on a large scale. Fl. C. S. 



2. C. caudata, Wall. ; Kurz, F. Fl. i. 108. 



A small tree with a spreading crown, branchlets, petioles and under side of 

 leaves hairy. Leaves 3-4 in., lanceolate, long-acuminate. Fl. |-1 in. diain., 

 white, 2-3 together, peduncles short, covered with imbricating bracts, sepals 

 and petals silky outside. Stamens clothed with long hairs, ovary and styles 

 hairy. Capsule J in. diani., 1-celled, 1-seeded. 



Bhutan, Khasi bills, Burma, hills east of Toungoo. Fl. November-March. 



B. Flowers erect, sepals deciduous. 



3. C. drupifera, Lour. — Syn. O. Kissi, Wall., As. Researches xiii.430, and 

 PI. As. Rar. t. 256. Vern. Hingua, Nep. ; Letpet } Burm. 



A large shrub or small tree, branches spreading, branchlets and petioles 

 more or I' l ss hairy, Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate in the upper 

 half, 3-4 in. long, secondary nerves 6-8 pair, faint. Fl. white, erect, on short 

 peduncles, bearing broad silky imbricating bracts, solitary or 2-3. Petals 

 obovate, f-1 in. long, falling soon after flowering. Stamens 70-80, glabrous, 

 \ in. long, filaments free, dilated below. Ovary hairy, style glabrous, in the 

 upper half 2-3-fid, ovary and style i in. long. Capsule nearly 1 in. diam., 

 depressed-globose, peduncle marked by the scars of bracts and sepals. 



Himalaya, from Nepal eastwards, 1,000-7,000 ft.. Assam, Khasi hills. Burma, hills 



east of Toungoo, 2,000 ft., Euby Mines hills. 6,000 ft. Fl. C. S. 



Closely allied is t. C. caduca, < '. B. Clarke MSS., Khasi hills, above the Bishop's falls 

 in large quantity in the' river bed mi roe ks and sand submerged during floods. Bhutan, 

 Sikkim. Leaves narrower, mi h.>th sides minutely wrinkled, secondary nerves quite 

 obscure. Fl. uiueb smaller, petals \ in., cuneate, emarginate, very early caducous. 

 stamens J- J in., outer series 80, filaments in their lower half united into a tube, inner 

 series 5 10, free. Capsule pyriform, pointed. ^ in. n. C. lutescens, Dyer, Mi~hmi hills. 



a shrub, Leaves 2 8] in., caudate-acuminate, closely senate, - ndarj nerves 8 8 



pair, distinct. PL fragrant, white, turning yellow. Stamens 'Jo 80, filaments broad, 



tl ter combined into a short irregular fleshy tube. Ovary globose, densely silky. 



styles short, recurved. 



in. ACTINIDIA, Lindl. ; PI. Brit. Lnd. t. 286. 



Climbing shrubs, structure of wood normal, vessels very large. Leaves 

 membranous. Fl, polygamous or dioecious, in axillary cymes, Sepals 6, petals 

 6, imbricate. Stamens /-, free, anthers versatile. Ovary cells numerous, 

 styles as many as cells, divergent, elongated after flowering. Frail fleshy, 



embryo straight in copious albumen, Species LO, China, Japan, and eastern 

 Himalaya. 



