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Camellia, } DIPTEROCARPER. 109 
on a hardly a lin. long scaly peduncle ; ovary densely white-villous, 
the style glabrous. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the drier hill-forests of the Martaban hills east of 
Tounghoo, at 3,000 to 4, - elevation.—Fl. March.—s.—SS. = Metam. 
RemarxKs.—Wood soft, white. 
2. C. Thea, Lk.; Brand. For. Fl. 25.; (C. theifera, Griff. ; 
Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 292).—A small evergreen tree, usually kept down 
in cultivation as a shrub, all parts glabrous (or in the wild Assam 
variety [?] the young parts silky puberulous) ; leaves from lanceolate 
and obovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, shortly petioled, serrate, 
3-4 i ong, usually acuminate, more or less coriaceous and 
glabrous ; flowers white, solitary in the axils of the leaves, on a 
short 2-3-bracted nodding peduncle; sepals orbicular and very 
blunt, glabrous (or silky) ; petals 5, obovate, blunt, on the back 
glabrous or puberulous ; stamens and style glabrous; ovary villous ; 
capsule glabrous ; 
Has.—Cultivated in the Chittagong and Arracan hills. 
3. C, es 
shrub or small tree, the young shoots sparingly pubescent; leaves 
elliptical or elliptically oblong, acuminate at base, 3-4 in. long, on 
a 2-3 lin. long petiole, acuminate, coriaceous, especially towards 
the apex serrulate ; flowers white, about 14 in. in diameter, solitary, 
Hazs.—Tenasserim. 
DIPTEROCARPE. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Calyx-tube free from the 
ovary or adnate, bell-shaped and enlarging, or small and unchanged, 
the limb 5-parted or cleft, imbricate or rarely almost valvate, 
all or few of the lobes enlarging and wing-like, rarely unaltered 
under the fruit. Petals 5, twisted-imbricate, free or connate at 
oase. Stamens numerous, or rarely definite, hypogynous or peri- 
gynous ; anthers 2-celled, the connective often bristly produced or 
blunt. Ovary superior, or rarely half or wholly inferior, 3- 
ana’ n eac. 
t usually a 1- or rarely 2-seeded nut enclosed or supported by 
the enlarged or unchanged calyx, or rarely inferior, the calyx-win 
often all or few of them wing-like enlarged. Albumen none, or 
rarely fleshy and ruminate. Cotyledons fleshy, straight or crum-. 
pled.—Trees or shrubs, very rarely scandent, with alternate simple 
