292 XXIV. TEHNSTRGEMiACEiE. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) [Gardonia. 



Capsule 1-li io.,; back of valves suloate.— Thwaites does not appear to have seen spe- 

 cimens of this plant, which differs from G. zeylanica in its sessile, more conaceou? 

 leaves with slightly revolute margins when dry, and its larger flowers. 



6. G. spedosa, Thwaites Enum. 40; leaves sessile broadly elliptic 

 rounded and retuse at the apex entire coriaceous. Carria speciosa, Gard. m 

 Gala. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 7. 



Ceti.on ; damp forests of the Central Province, rather uncommon, alt. 5000 ft. and 

 upwards, Gardner, &c. . .i- 1.1. 



A tree 40-50 ft. BraneUets with the leaves crowded at their extremities ; bark 

 grey, cracking longitudinally. Buds glabrous. Leaves 3-5 by 1 J-3 in., slightly revo- 

 lute when dned ; midrib strong, channelled above ; veins obsolete. Flowers 2-4 in. 

 diam., subsessile, reddish-purple. Sepals and petals orbicular-oblong obcordate; sepals 

 smooth, margins ciliate; petals faintly silky externally towards the base. Capsule 

 1 i in. long ; back of valves sulcate above. ^ 



GoEDONiA ANOMALA, Spreng. Syst. iii. 126, is figured in Bot Beg. 349, under the 

 name of Camellia axillaris, Boxb. ms., and is stated to have been introduced by Dr. Kox- 

 burgh into the Calcutta Botanic Garden from Fulo-Penang. I have seen, however, no 

 specimens except from S. China, whence it is probably not indigenous in Penang. 



13. CAiaSIiliXA, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves evergreen, serrate, coriaceous or membranous. 

 FUnoers axillary, solitary, or aggregated, sessile or shortly stalked, often 

 handsome. Sepals 5-6, unequal, graduating from the bracts towards the 

 petals. Petals slightly coherent at the base. Stamens numerous, the outer- 

 most in many rows, sliglitly or almost wholly monadelphous, adherent to 

 the base of the petals ; the innermost, 5-12, free. Ovary 3-5-celled ; styles 

 free to the base, or more or less united ; ovules 4-5 in each cell, pendulousi 

 Capside woody, usually short, loculicidal. Seeds mostly solitary in each cell, 

 wingless, albumen ; embryo straight, cotyledons thick, radicle short, 

 superior.— DiSTEiB. Trop. and East. Asia and Malay Archipelago. Species 

 about 14. 



Sect. I. Thea, Linn. Flowers nodding, sepals persistent. 



1. C. tbeifera, Griff. Notul. iv. 558, t. 601, f. i. & iii. ; Trans. Agric. Soc. 

 Gale. V. (1838), t. C ; leaves elliptic-oblong acute or cuspidate-acuminate pu- 

 berulous on the nerves beneath, peduncles 2-3-bracteate short, styles and 

 stamens glabrous. Thea chinensis, Linn.; Seem, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. t. 61. 

 T. assamica, Masters in Journ. Agric. ds Hort. Soc. Ind. iii. (1844), 63. Assam 

 Tea, Wall. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. iv. 48, t. 2. Camellia ? Scottiana, Wall. 

 Gat. 3668, (see Jowm. Linn. Soc. xiii. 328). Camelliae sp., Grriff. Trans. 

 Agric. S Hart. Soc. Ind. v. (1838), t. B. Eurya angustifolia, Miguel in Herb. 

 Uohenach. 483 (a cultivated form). 



TJppEB Assam, Wailich; Cachae {fide T. Anderson). — ^Distkib. China. 



A shrub, 3-6 ft. high. Branchlets glabrous ; buds silky. Leaves 4-8 by li-2i in; 

 tapering at either end, more or less serrate, membranous ; petiole J in. Flowers IJ in. 

 diam., white. Sepals orbicular, glabrous, with membranous ciliate edges. Petals broadly 

 obovate. Styles united for | their If ngth. Capsule leathery, trigonous ; cells 1- rarely 

 2-seeded. Seeds f in. diam., nearly globose or obtusely angled, smooth, pale brown.— ' 

 Possibly the wild stock of the tea plant. Tbe cultivated forms vary with more con- 

 tracted habit, smaller, more obtuse and coriaceous leaves, and a pubescent calyx. In 

 J. W. Bennett's Ceylon, 277, the Tea plant is alluded to and figured as having been found 

 in that island by the Dutch. This, however, was not confirmed by the writer or by 

 any subsequent observer. 



