78 LTernstramiacee—LEurya. 
1 EUORYA. 
Flowers dicecious. Sepals 5. Petals 5, cohering at the 
base. Stamens from 5 to 15. Fruit a berry. Evergreen 
shrubs with glabrous often crenate leaves and small white 
flowers on axillary fascicled peduncles. About ten species, all 
Asiatic. The name is said to be derived from etpvs, broad, 
ample, in allusion to the flowers; but it is hardly applicable, the 
flowers being rather small for the family. 
1. £. latifolia variegata.--Under this name we have a 
pretty shrub in our gardens. Leaves quite glabrous, entire, 
oblong-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, variegated chiefly on 
the margin with pale yellow. A native of Japan, and probably 
requiring protection in severe weather. This is perhaps one 
of the many forms of #. Japénica, a very variable species. 
2. CAMELLIA (including Théa). 
Sepals 5 or 6, passing gradually from bracteoles into petals, 
the latter slightly cohering atthe base. Stamensmany. Cap- 
sule woody, 3- to 5-celled; cells usually 1-seeded; seeds exal- 
buminous. The Camellias are usually treated as greenhouse 
plants, but as the common single one succeeds very well in the 
south-western counties with slight protection, it is included 
here. : 
1. C. Japénica.—lIt is unnecessary to particularise varieties 
here or introduce a detailed description. As an out-door shrub 
some of the original varieties grow well in sheltered situations 
and produce their flowers very freely after a mild winter. 
The Tea-tree (Théa Chinénsis), referred to this genus, is 
grown by some amateurs more on account of the interest at- 
tached to it than for ornament. 
Stachyirus précuxr and Actinidia polggama, syn. Trocho- 
stigma, are members of this family, the former from Japan and 
the latter from Eastern Siberia. Neither of them is at all 
common in gardens. The latter is of climbing habit, bearing 
cordate serrate petiolate leaves and white fragrant flowers 
appearing in Summer, and followed by edible berries. The 
former has small greenish-yellow pendent racemose flowers, 
in Spring preceding the leaves. 
