Saurmja.] teunstbcemiace^. 27 



united at the base. Stamens very numerous. Anthers versatile, opening by 

 pores or short slits at the extremity. Ovary 3- to B-celled, with numerous 

 ovules in each cell. Styles 3 to B, free, or more or less united. Fruit succu- 

 lent, seldom dehiscent. Seeds small, with copious albumen, and a rather 

 small straight embryo.^Shrubs or trees, with more or less of stiff appressed 

 hairs. Leaves usually serrate, with prominent parallel veins diverging from 

 the midrib. Peduncles axillary or lateral, bearing several flowers. 

 A considerable tropical genus, both in the New and the Old World. 



1. S. tristyla, DO. Prod. i. 526, and Mem. Ternstr. t. 1. A tree or 

 shrub, the young branches rather thick. Leaves shortly stalked, obovate or 

 broadly oblong, shortly acuminate, 8 to 10 in. long, glabrous, except a few of 

 the stiff scale-like hairs so seldom wanting in the genus. Peduncles short, 

 arising from the axils of the fallen leaves on the last year's wood, bearing 

 usiially 3 to 6 flowers, on pedicels 3 or 3 lines long. Sepals about 2 lines 

 long and broad. Petals rather longer. Styles and cells of the ovary 3 only. 



Hongkong, Mance, Wright. Ranges over eastern India from the Malayan Peninsula and 

 Chittagong to Khasia and Assana. 



3. TERWSTBCEMIA, Linn. 



Flowers usually hermaphrodite. Sepals much imbricate. Petals united in 

 a 5-lobed corolla. Stamens numerous ; anthers adnate, glabrous. Ovary 3- 

 or 3-celled, with 3 to 4 ovules suspended from near the apex of each cell. 

 Style simple, with a broadly 2- or 3-lobed stigma. Fruit thick and indehiscent, 

 but rather dry. Seeds few, large, horseshoe-shaped inside. Albumen fleshy, 

 often thin or scarcely any. Embryo much curved or folded longitudinally. 

 Trees or shrubs. Leaves coriaceous. Peduncles 1-flowered, axillary or lateral, 

 curved downwards,, with 3 bracteoles close to the calyx. 



A considerable, tropical genus both in the New and the Old World. 



1. T. japonica, Thunh. ; Sieb. and Zucc. Fl: Jap. i. 148, t. 80. A tree, 

 perfectly glabrous in all its parts. Scales of the young leaf-buds ovate. Leaves 

 rather crowded at the ends of the branches, stalked, oblong, more or less nar- 

 rowed at both ends, 3 to 3 in. long, thick arid leathery, often whitish or rusty 

 underneath. Peduncles 6 to 9 hues long. Flowers pale yellow, the- corolla 

 spreading, -about 8 lines diameter. Fruit globular, i to 1 in. diameter. — 

 C!leyerafragransw.A. 0. duMa, Champ, in Linn. Trans, xxi. 115. — Tenstrmmia 

 japonica, T. ImUa, T. WigUii, T.fragrami and T. dubia,, Chois. Mem. Ternstr. 

 et Camell. pp. 18, 19. 



Common in Hongkong, constituting a great part of the woods. Champion and others. 

 Widely spread over India,, from Ceylon and the Peninsula to the Archipdago, and northward 

 to China and Japan. 



4. EITBYA, Thunb. 



Flowers mostly unisexual. Sepals much imbricate. Petals united at the 

 base Stamens usuaUv indefinite, but seldom above IB. Anthers adnate. 

 Ovarv 3- rarely 3-, 4-, or 5 -celled, with several ovules in each. Styles as 

 raflny, either almost free, or united to near the top^- Fruit a berry. Embiyo 

 much cui-ved in a somewhat granular albumen.-Trees or shmbs. Flowers 



