TERNSTROMIACEiE. 101 



Plate 140-142. 



GORDONIA, Ellis. 



Sepala 5, rotimdata, concava, coriacea. Petala 5, obovata, 

 ima basi coalita et phalangibus staminum adnata. Stamina 

 pentadelpha. Ovarium 5-loculare ; loculis 4 - 8-ovulatis. 

 Ovula anatropa resiipinato-pendula. Capsula sublignosa lo- 

 culicide 5-valvis, cokimella centrali persistente. Semina in 

 loculis 2-4, angulata, vel dorso alata. Embryo exalbumino- 

 sus, rectiusculus ; cotyledonibus longitudinaliter flexuoso- 

 plicatis ; radicula brevi supera. — Arbuscula; grandiflorae, foliis 

 perennantibus aut deciduis. 



GoRDONiA, Ellis in Phil. Trans. 60. p. 518. t. 11. Catesb. Car. t. 44. 



Linn. Mant. p. 570. Walt. Fl. Car. p. 177. Cav. Diss. 5. p. 307. 



1. 161, 162. Juss. Gen. 1. p. 275. Venten. Hort. Malmais. t. 1. 



DC. Prodr. 1. p. 528 (excl. sect. 2). Michx. f. Sylv. 1. t. 59. 



Cambess. in Mem. Mus. 16. p. 408. t. 16. Torr. &, Gray, Fl. 



N. Am. 1. p. 223. Endl. Gen. 5424. 

 Franklinia, Marsh. Arbust. Amer. p. 48. 

 Lacathea, Salisb. Parad. Lond. t. 56. 



L.o1)Iolly Bay. 



Calyx (usually subtended by three or four caducous 

 bractlets below the flower) of five rounded and concave coria- 

 ceous sepals, minutely silky-tomentose, ciliate, quincuncially 

 imbricated in asstivation, persistent. Petals 5, alternate 

 with the sepals, obovate, concave, silky-puberulent on the 

 back, quincuncially imbricated in aestivation, hypogynous, 

 united with each other at the base and with the phalanges 

 of the stamens, deciduous. Stamens very numerous, shorter 

 than the petals, pentadclphous, the five clusters or the thick- 

 ened lobes from which the filiform filaments arise placed 

 before the petals and connate with their base : anthers fixed 

 near the base, introrse, two-celled, the oblong cells opening 

 longitudinally. Pistil of five entirely combined carpels : 



