28 TEENSTRCEMIACBJ!. [Uurya. 



axaiary, usually fascicled on short pedicels or sessile, and much smaller than 

 iii any Ternstroemiaceous genus, except Pentaph/lax. 



A small genus, restricted to southern and eastern Asia and the Archipelago. 

 Style entire to near the top. Flowers about 2 lines diameter . . . 1 . E. japmica. 

 Styles cleft to near the base. Flowers about 4 lines diameter . . . 2. ^. Maoartneyi. 



1. E. japonica, Thumb. M. Jwp. 191, t. 35 ; Thw. Enum. PI. Ceyl. 41. 

 A shrub, glabrous in all its parts in the Hongkong specimens, but hairy on 

 the young branches in a variety found on the adjacent continent. Leaves 

 obovate or oblong, 1^ to 2 in. long, slightly crenulate, narrowed at the base. 

 Pedicels axillary, usually 2 or 3 together, 1 to li line long. Flowers about 

 2 lines diameter, white. Style subulate, very shortly lobed at the top. — E. 

 chinemis, Champ, in Linn. Trans, xxi. 113. 



In various parts of the island, Champion and others. The species is widely distributed over 

 India, from Ceylon and the Peninsula to the Archipelago, and northward to China and Japan. 

 The variety originally described by Brown under the name of JE. ehmensis is the one with 

 hairy branches, which has not yet been met with iu Hongkong. 



2. E. Macartneyi, CJiamp. in Linn. Trans, xxi. 113 ; Seem. Bot. Her. 

 t. 74. A glabrous,shrub, coarser and stouter than the last. Leaves oval- 

 elliptical, 3 to 3 in. long, scarcely toothed, rounded at the base, thicker than 

 in E. japonica, with the veins less prominent and less oblique. Elowers almost 

 sessile, about 4 lines diameter. Styles 3 or 4, free from the base. Anthers 

 scarcely apiculate. 



In woods and on rooks. Champion, Wright, and others. Said to be rather more common 

 in the island than the E. japonica, but I cannot identify it with any continental specimens. 



5. PENTAPHYLAX, Champ. 



Plowers hermaphrodite. Sepals nearly equal. Petals slightly united at 

 the base. Stamens 5, slightly cohering to the base of the petals and alternate 

 with them. Anthers short, innate, introrse ; the cells distinct, nearly globular, 

 opening by terminal pores. Ovary 5 -celled, with 3 collateral pendulous 

 ovules in each. Style iUiform, mostly 5-cleft at the top. Capsule angular, 

 opening loculicidaUy ; the valves bearing the dissepiments without leaving a 

 central axis. Seeds winged at the top. Albumen thin. Embryo folded lon- 

 gitudinally or horseshoe-shaped. — Habit and small flowers of Eurya. 



The genus is hitherto restricted to a single species. 



1. P. euryoideS} Gardn. and Champ, in Linn. Trans, xxi. 1 14, 1. 13. A 

 small tree, of great beauty when in flower, perfectly glabrous in all its parts. 

 Leaves shortly stalked, ovate or oval-oblong, 1 to 2 or rarely 2^ in. long, 

 quite entire, evergreen, smooth and shining. Peduncles 1-flowered, scarcely 

 above a line long, crowded along the short lateral shoots or amongst the leaves. 

 Plowers white, the size of those of Eurya japonica. Capsule almost woody, 

 about 3 lines long. 



Common in the woods of Hongkong, Champion, also Wright, but not as yet received from 

 elsewhere. 



6. SCHIMA, Korth. 

 Sepals B, nearly equal. Petals 6, much longer, the outer one enveloping 

 the others, all slightly cohering at the base. Stamens numerous. Anthers 



