TERNSTROMIACEiE. 97 



Plate 138, 139. 



STUARTIA, Cateshy. 



Sepala 5, raro 6, ovata seu lanceolata. Petala 5-6, obo- 

 vata, crenulata, ima basi annulo staminum adnata. Stamina 

 ima basi monadelpha. Ovarium 5-loculare ; loculis 2-ovula- 

 tis. Ovula adscendentia, anatropa. Capsula ovoidea, lignoso- 

 crustacea, loculicide 5-valvis. Semina in loculis 1-2, len- 

 ticularia ; testa Crustacea nucleo conformis, nunc margine 

 membranaceo cincta. Embryo in albumine parum copioso 

 rectus ; cotyledonibus ovalibus planis radicula gracili infera 

 brevioribus. — Frutices grandiflori, foliis membranaceis de- 

 ciduis. 



Stcartia, Catesb. Car. 3. t. 13. Linn. Gen. 847. Lam. 111. t. 593. 



L'Her. Stirp. Nov. t. 73, 74. Torr. &, Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1. p. 223. 



Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3918. Endl. Gen. 5423, & Suppl. 2. p. 81. 



Zucc. Fl. Japon. 1. p. 181. t. 96. 

 Malachodendron, Mitch. Gen. in Ephem. Nat. Cur. 1748. 

 Stewartia & Malachodendron, Cav. Diss. 5. p. 302. 1. 158, 159. Juss. 



Gen. p. 275 & 292. DC. Prodr. 1. p. 528. 



Caltx one - two-bracteolate, of five, or occasionally six, 

 foliaceous ovate or lanceolate sepals, regularly imbricated in 

 aestivation, silky-pubescent, persistent. Petals 5, or occa- 

 sionally 6, alternate with the sepals, imbricated in aestivation, 

 obovate, with more or less crenulate margins, silky-pubes- 

 cent externally, hypogynous, connected at the very base only 

 by means of the stamens, deciduous. Stamens indefinite, 

 in three or four series, shorter than the petals : filaments 

 subulate-filiform, monadelphous at the very base in an entire 

 ring which is connate with the base of the petals : anthers 

 fixed by the middle, introrse, two-celled, the oblong cells 

 opening longitudinally. PoLLEN-grains simple, globular, 

 smooth. Ovary compound, ovoid or globular, five-celled, 



