24 IX. TAMAEISCINE^. [Myricaria. 



Nearly allied is M. degans, Royle ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 250 ; with white flowers 

 and longer oblanceolate leavea, from Ladak, Zanskar, and Kunawar, where it is 

 most valuable as yielding fuel, and often found associated with M. germanica. 

 It attains a larger size ; old gnarled trunks have 7-8 ft. in girth, with a 

 rounded crown often 15-20 ft. high. 



Ordbb X. TERNSTECEMIACEiE, 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate simple leaves. Stipules none, or very 

 rarely minute. Flowers regular, bisexual, rarely unisexual. Sepals usually 

 5, Imbricate. Petals usually 5, hypogynous, imbricate or twisted, frequently 

 united into a short tube. Stamens usually numerous, hypogynous, the 

 filaments often cohering at the base and united with the petals. Ovary 

 plurilocular, ovules 2 or more in each cell, placentation axile ; styles 2-7, 

 distinct or more or less combined. Fruit 2-5-ceUed, coriaceous and in- 

 dehiscent, or capsular and opening by valves. Albumen scanty or want- 

 ing; embryo frequently oily. — Gen. PI. i. 177; Eoyle 111. 107; Wight 

 111 i. 89. 



Flowers small, dioecious ; sepals 5, nearly equal ; anthers adnate ; 



fruit dry, indehiscent 1. Eueta. 



Flowers small, bisexual ; sepals 5, nearly equal ; anthers versatile ; 



fruit indehiscent, dry or fleshy ; leaves penniveiued . . 2. Sattrauja. 

 Flowers large, bisexual ; sepals 5-6, inner larger; anthers versatile ; 



fruit a woody capsule, dehiscing longitudinally . . . 3. Camellia. 



1. ETJRTA, Thunberg. 



Flowers dioecious. Sepals 5, strongly imbricate. Petals 5, imbricate, 

 more or less united at the base. Stamens 12-15, attached to the base of the 

 corolla in a single series ; anthers adnate, opening longitudinally. Ovary 

 mostly 3-ceUed; styles 3, distinct or united. Fruit a dry indehiscent 

 berry. Seeds with a fleshy albumen. 



1. E. japonica, Thunb. ; Thwaites Enum. PL Zeyl. 41. — Syn. E. 

 Wightiana, Wight 111. t. 38 ; E. acuminata, Eoyle 111. t. 24. Vern. 

 Bdunra, gonta, deura, JST.W.P. 



A shrub 10-12 ft. high; leaves alternate, on short petioles, oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, obtusely serrate, coriaceous, glabrous or hairy when 

 young, and underneath along the midrib. Flowers white, solitary or in 

 fascicles, axillary, or from the axils of fallen leaves. Ovary ovoid ; styles 

 distinct, or united at the base. Fruit globose, -J in. diam., crowned by 

 the persistent base of style. 



Widely spread over Eastern Asia, in China, Japan, and Java. In India it is 

 found on the mountainous regions of Burma, Ceylon, South India, Eastern 

 Bengal, and the Outer Himalaya, alt. 3500-9000 ft., extending west as far as the 

 Jumna, resembling somewhat the Tea plant. Fl. May-Sept. The specimens 

 from the north-west are always hairy (extremities and midrib). In Burma, 

 South India, and Ceylon, both the hairy and glabrous forms are found. In 

 Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 284, the glabrous form with 2-flowered fascicles is referred to 

 E. japonica, Thunb., and the hairy form with more numerous flowers to E. 

 acuminata, DC. 



