76 CAMELLIA OR TEA, FAMILY. 



each cell. The petals themselves are commonly more or less 

 united at their base ; they are 5 or sometimes 6 or even more in 

 number in natural flowers, and in cultivated plants apt to be in- 

 creased by doubling. 



» Exotics^ from Chinas Japan, ^c. ; some of tke inner stamens entirely separate : 

 commonly there is a gradation from bracts to sepak andpetcUs. ' 



1. CAMELLIA. Numerous separate inner stamens within the ring or cup formed 



by the united bases of the very numerous outer stamens, btyle 3-6-cleft. 

 Seeds large, usually single in each cell of the thick and vpody pod. Leaves 

 evergreen, serrate. 



2. THEA. Separate interior stamens only as many as the petals (.5 or 6): other- 



wise nearly like Camellia: flowers less showy; bracts under the caiyx incon- 

 spicuous. >* 

 * * Natives of Southeastern States : stamens all united at the base. 



3. GORDONIA. Stamens in 5 clusters, one attached to the base of each petal. 



Style columnar; stigma 5-rayed. Seeds several, more or less winged. Leaves 

 coriaceous or thickish. 



4. STUARTIA. Stamens uniformly united by a short ring at the base of the fila- 



ments. Seeds 2 in each cell, wingless. Leaves thin and deciduous. 



1. CAMSiZiXjIA. (Named for G. CameZ/us or ^amei, a missionary to China 

 in the 17th century.) 



C. Jap6nica, Japan Camellia, with oval or oblong pointed and shining 

 leaves, and terminal or nearly terminal flowers, simple or double, red, white, or 

 variegated, of very many varieties, is the well-known and only common spepies ; 

 fl. through the winter, hardy only S. 



2. THEA, TEA-PLANT. (The Chinese name.) Genus too slightly dif- 

 ferent from Camellia. Shrubs, natives of China and Japan, spai-ingly cult, 

 for ornament. 



T. viridis. Green or Common T. Leaves oblong or broadly lanceolate, 

 much longer than wide ; the white flowers (1' or more broad) nodding on short 

 stalks in their axils. 



T. Boh^a, BoHEA T. Leaves smaller and broader in proportion ; proba- 

 bly a more variety of the other. 



3. GORDONIA. (Named for Dr. Gordon and another Scotchman of the 

 same name.) 



G. Iiasi4nth.us, Loblolly Bay. A handsome shrub or small tree, in 

 swamps near the coast from Virginia S., with evergreen and smooth lance- 

 oblong leaves taperihg to the base and minutely serrate, and showy white flow- 

 ers 2' - 3' across, in spring and summer, on a slender peduncle ; the stamens 

 short, on a 5-lobed cup. 



G. pub^sceus, also called FKANKLfNiA, after Dr. Franklin. Grows only 

 in Georgia and Florida ; a tall, orn.imental shrub or smaU tree, with thinner 

 and deciduous leaves whitish downy beneath, as are the sepals and (white) 

 petals, and longer style and filaments, the latter in 5 distinct parcels one on the 

 base of each petal. 



4. STTJAE.TIA. (Named for John Stuart, the Lord Bide at the time of the 

 American Eevolation.) Ornamental shrubs, with thin leaves and handsome 

 Tfhite flowers 2' or 3' across, in late spring or early summer, wild in shady 

 ■woods of Southern States. 



S. Virginica, grows in the low country from Virginia S. ; shrub 8° - 12° 

 high', with finely serrate leaves soft-downy underneath, pure white petals, purple 

 stamens, one style, and a roundish pod. 



S. pent&gyna, belongs to the mountains S. of Virginia, and in cult, is 

 hardy N. ; has smoother leaves and rather larger very handsome flowers, their 

 petals jagged-cdged and tinged with cream-color, the sepals often reddish ou^ 

 side, 5 separate styles, and a 5-angled poilated pod. 



