106 TERNSTROEMIACER. | Schima, 
SCHIMA, Rwdt. 
Sepals 5, somewhat unequal. Petals 5, much imbricate. ee 
mens numerous ,adnate to the petal-base ; anthers versatile. 
5- rarely 4.-6-celled, with 2 to 6 almost pendulous ovules in iach 
cell ; style simple with short stigmatic lobes. Capsule woody, 
usually spheroid, opening loculicidally in 4-6 valves, leaving a 
free central axis. Seeds uhea expanded along the outer edge into 
n thin. Radicle inferior.—Trees, with 
entire or crenate Barbs ah ad showy white flowers. 
x eartig ay short and stout, usually not longer than 
he pet 
Fodunples short eg straight, usually lenticellate, rather Perna 
aston or slightly pubese ent - S. Wallichii. 
Ergin Ls * long, lenticellate ; leaves pubescent beneath, the 
creer: ation prominent and dist: - Sch. mollis. 
Pedimeles ‘ic lenticellate; leaves very hatondeeks glossy above, 
m both sides oe the net-veination indistinct, im 
. Sch. monticola. 
Puionee short and straight, emooth ; flowers. larger than in Sch. 
Spervebyica oat eaves mk ggomegen noon neath, often entire; the lateral 
nerves the oe obsolete . ‘ é - Sch. Noronhe. 
ex Bedunce ‘longa and often slender, always much 
an ty petiole, smooth. 
ieee waste genet or less curved; leaves glaucous 
usually pare Sregritnrs the nerves and net-veination 
beneath distinct . S&S. crenata, 
agave cag but “still ‘slender, i li:in long ; lonves very 
m both sides impressed net-veine d, and alm 
crenate, the lat 
cating or teral nerves entinely or 
rm impresse sed . - Sch. Bancana. 
1. Sch. epee asians semaias e, the young shoots silky 
pubescent, the branchlets lenticellate ; anit oblong-lanceolate 
to lanceolate, obtuse or acute at base, shortly but sharply acumi- 
nate, 4-5 in. jong, on an 3-1 in. long petiole, usually slightly silky 
pubeseent and pale-colo sneath, the nerves and net-veination 
distinct ; flowers about 1-14 in. in diameter, white and fragrant, 
on 4-1 in. long lenticellate ate pedicels, arising singly from the axils 
of the leaves ; sepal: » nearly twice broader than long, 
densely silky inside ; aie globose, woody, the size of a bullet, 
while young silky. 
Has.—Ava, Khakyen hills ; ee March. 
RemarxKs.—Wood compact; brown. 
2. Sch. mollis, Dyer; H. f. Ina. Fl. i. 288.—A tree, the young 
_ shoots silky pubescent, the branchlets len ticellate ; leaves oblong- 
lanceolate to lanceolate, acute at base, on a puberulous petiole 
3-3 in. long acute or acuminate, 5-7 in. long, coriaceous, beneath, 
