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white flowers. It grows well in peaty loam, and is 

 deciduous. 



S. Tanakje is not of equal floral beauty with the 

 former, these being of a greenish tinge, while the leaves 

 are of larger size. 



Stuartia (Ternstromiaceae). 



Stuartia pbntagyna (syn Malachodendron ovatum). — 

 North America, 1785. This differs only from the S. vir- 

 ginica in having five distinct styles, hence the name. 

 Under very favourable circumstances this is the taller 

 growing species, and the leaves and flowers are larger. 

 The leaves are oval and the flowers crimson coloured. 



S. pseudo-Camellia (syn S. grandiflora). — Japan, 1879. 

 This differs from the -others in the flowers being rather 

 larger, 2 inches to 3 inches across, and of a purer white, 

 and supplied with yellow instead of red stamens. The 

 foliage tint in autumn is exceedingly showy. It is quite 

 hardy in Southern England and Ireland at least. 



S. virginica (syn S. marylandica). — North America, 

 1743. This is a handsome, free-growing shrub, of often 

 10 feet in height, with large, creamy-white flowers that 

 are rendered all the more conspicuous by the crimson-red 

 stamens. The flowers — like those of a single Rose, and 

 fully 2J inches across — are produced "in May. Quite 

 hardy, as many fine specimens in some of our old English 

 gardens will point out. 



Though, perhaps, rather exacting in their require- 

 ments, the Stuartias may be very successfully grown if 

 planted in light, moist, peaty earth, and where they will 

 be screened from cold, cutting winds. 



Styphnolobium, See Sophora. 



