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Genus 6. TAMARIX. 
Leaves simple, very small, alternate, clasping; old ones 
almost transparent at the apex. Flowers in spike-like pan- 
icles, small, red, or pink, rarely white. 
Tdémarix Gallica, L. (FRencH Tama- 
RISK.) Leaves very small, acute; spray 
very slender, abundant. A sub-evergreen 
shrub or small tree,5 to 20 ft. high; with 
very small pinkish flowers, in spike-like 
clusters, blooming from May to October. A 
very beautiful and strange-looking plant, 
which, rather sheltered by other trees, can 
be successfully grown throughout. 
ORDER V. TERNSTREMIACEZ. 
(TEA OR CAMELLIA FaMILy.) 
An order of showy-flowered trees and shrubs of tropical 
and subtropical regions, here represented by the following 
genera: 
Genus 7. STUARTIA. 
Shrubs or low trees with alternate, simple, exstipulate, 
ovate, serrulate leaves, soft downy beneath. Flowers 
large (2 in.), white to cream-color, 
solitary and nearly sessile in the 
axils of the leaves; blooming in 
early summer. Fruit a 5-celled cap- 
sule with few seeds; ripe in autumn. 
1. Stuartia pentagyna, L’Her. (Stv- 
ARTIA.) Leaves thick, ovate, acuminate, 
acute at base, obscurely mucronate, ser- 
rate, finely pubescent, 3 to 4 in. long, one 
half as wide. Flowers whitish cream-col- 
ored, one petal much the smallest; sta- 
mens of the same color. Pod 5-angled. 
