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Order XXIV. TERNSTRCEMIACEA!. 



(By W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.L.S.) 



Shrubs rarely climbing, or trees. Leave* alternate, simple (in Indian 

 species) entire or often serrate, usually coriaceous, exstipulate. Flowers 

 handsome, seldom small, usually subtended by 2 sepal-like bracts, rarely 

 diclinous, axillary, 1 or ruore together, rarely in lateral or terminal racemes 

 or panicles. /Sepals 5, rarely 4-7, free or slightly connate, the innermost 

 often larger. Fetals 6, rarely 4r-9, free or connate below, imbricate or con- 

 torted. Stamens numerous (definite in Sladenia and Stachyuruij free or 

 connate, usually adnate to the base of the deciduous corolla ; anthers basi- 

 fixed or versatile, dehiscing by slits or rarely by terminal pores. Ovary free 

 (^-inferior in Annesled}, sessile, 3-5-celledj (many-celled in Actimdia) ; styles 

 as many, free or connate, stigmas usually small; ovules 2-oo in each cell, 

 rarely solitary, never ofthotropous. Fruit baccate or capsular. Seeds few 

 or numerous, placentas axile, albumen scanty or 0, rarely copious ; embryo 

 straight or hippocrepiform, cotyledons various. — Disteib. Eare in tempe- 

 rate, abundant in tropical Asia and America, almost wanting in Africa and 

 entirely in Australasia ; species about 260. 



Teibe I. TemstroemieBB. Peduncles 1-flowered (many-flowered in 

 Sladenia). Petals imbricate. Stamens adherent to the base of the corolla, ; 

 anthers basifixed. Fruit (in Indian Genera) indehiscent. Seeds usually 

 few, albumen fleshy usually scanty. Embryo curved ; ' cotyledons shorter 

 than the radicle and about as broad. 



* Fruit inferior. 



1. Ahiieslba. 



** Fruit superior. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite (except Temstrcemia penaitgicma). 



Anthers glabrous 2. Teknsteoemia. 



Anthers usually pilose. 



Stamens about 12, ovary 3-celled 3. Sladenia. 



Stamens many, seeds numerous, ovary 3-5-celled 4. Adinandea. 



Stamens many, seeds moderate, ovary 2-3 celled 5. Cleyeka. 



Flowers dioecious 6- Eueta. 



Teibe II. Sauraujeee. Peduncles many-flowered. Petals imbricate. 

 Anthers versatile. Fruit usually pulpy, rarely sub-dehiscent. Seeds nu- 

 merous mittute, albumen abundant. £adicle straight or slightly curved 

 and longer than the cotyledons. 



* Flowers 5'merous, stamens many. 



Styles many 7- Aotinidia. 



Styles 3-5 8. Saubahja. 



** Flowers 4-merous, stamens few. 



9. SlACHYUEnS. 



Teibe III. Gordonleae. Peduncles 1-flowered, often very short. Petah 

 imbricate. Anthers versatile. Fruit indehiscent or loculicidal. Albumen 

 scanty or 0. Gotyledmis various j.radicle short, straight or curved. 



* Fruit indehiscent. > „ 



11, Ptbehaeia. 



** Fruit dehiscent. 



Seeds winged, radicle inferior 10. Sohima. 



Seeds winged, radicle superior 12. Goedonia. 



Seeds wingless ■ 13. Cameixul. 



