108 TERNSTROEMIACER. [ Camellia. 
long, ciliate; capsules globular, the size of a small cherry, silky 
pubescent. 
Has.—Pegu, Rangoon District ; Tenasserim. 
6. Sch. Bancana, Miq.—A tree, the young shoots silky pubes- 
cent and the ranatota Setanta: leaves elliptically to oblong- 
lanceolate, acute at base, and slightly. decurrent on the 3-1 in. long, 
broad, glabrous = long acuminate, coarsely crenate-serraté, 
very coriaceous, opaque, 3-4 in. lo ong, the nerves and net-veination 
impressed beneath ; Fonche nearly 131 in. in diameter, white, on a 
14-2 in. long, smooth peduncle, arising singly from the axils of 
the leaves or almost racemose ; sepals rotundate, nearly as long as 
broad, glabrous or ciliolate; capsules globose, the size of a sma 
sherry appressed silky while 
—Common in the Eng forests of the lower hills of Tenasserim and 
Mastaben, up to 3,000 ft. elevation 
CAMELLIA, L. 
_ Sepals 5 or 6, unequal, sare passing into the bracts and 
petals. Petals eek St ved ‘Stamens numerous, the outer ones 
more or jess monadelphous and paar to the base of the petals, 
the 5-12 inner ones free; anthers versatile. Ovary 3- to 5-celled, 
— - suspended ovules in each cell; styles more or less united. 
Capsules woody, often short, and somewhat pointed, dehiscing 
loculicidally. Seeds usually solitary in each cell, not winged. 
Albumen none. Radicle superior.—Evergreen trees or shrubs, with 
serrate leaves. Flowers solitary or several in the axils of the leaves, 
often showy. 
* Stamens of inner series equal in number to the petals and 
All oe quite glabrous ; flowers large ; leaves coriaceous . C. Japonica. 
* Stamens twice as many as petals and 
Young parts and midrib of the membranous leaves pilose; flower 
nodding, on a scaly peduncle a line long ; filaments villous 06: caudata. 
All parts glabrous ; leaves coriaceous ; ; en 
glabrous C. Thea. 
Glabrous ; leaves coriaceous ; flowers almost sessile erect ; 5 filaments 
agen . C. drupifera. 
4. C. niaita: Wa r hn evergreen tree (2154564 
1—2), with a spreading crown, the younger parts pilose from white 
‘soft hairs ; leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, serrate, 2-3 in. long, 
rounded or obtuse at base, on a 2-3 lin. long, pilose petiole, shortly 
acuminate, membranous, with the exception of the midrib glabrous 
above, ‘beneath. sparingly pilose along the —— flowers solitary 
in the axils of the leaves, white, about an i in diameter, drooping 
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