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TERNIER, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Leman ; c miles S.S.W. of Geneva. 



TERNOIS, Le, a river of France, which runs mto 

 the Caiich'.-, near Hefdin. ^ • . r 



TERNOSKAIA, a town of Ruma, m the comitry ot 

 the Codacs, on the Don ; .36 miles' E.N.E. of Azoph. 



TERNOVA, n town ot European lurkey, m iiul- 

 earia. This town was anciently one of the rtrongeft in the 

 country, and the reiidence of the princes; at prcfent it is 

 thinly inhabited, and the fortifications are rmned. It is the 

 refidcnce of an ecclcfiaftic, wiio is called the archbifhop ot 

 Bulgaria ; 95 miles E. of Sophia. N. lat. 43". E. long. 

 nr^ ■..'.— Alio, a town of European Turkey, in Tliellaly ; 

 hrgc and commercial ; on the Peneus ; 5 miles W.N.W. of 



LarifTa. 



TERNSTROEMIA, in Botnuy, was fo called by l.in- 

 ■naius at the fugg-lUon of Mutis, in memory of one of the 

 pupils of the foi-mer, named Ternftroem, who having under- 

 taken a voyage to China, in 1745, died at Poulicandor, at 

 an early age. His illuftrious teacher has not, as in other 

 inftances, given us any account of the voyage, difcoveries, 

 or talents of this unfortunate young man, who, though not 

 one of his favourite pupils, deferves commemoration as a 

 martyr to fcicntific refearch — Linn. Suppl. 39. Schreb. 

 347. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. 1 128. Mart. Mill. Did. v. 4. 

 "Sw'artz Prodr. 81. Jufl". 262. (Cleyera ; Thunb. Jap. 12. 

 Nov. Gen. 68. .Tuff. 433. Taonabo ; Aubl. Guian. 569. 

 Tonabea ; Jufl". 262. Tanabea ; Lamarck lUuftr. t. 456.) 



Clafs and order, Polyandria Monogyma. Nat. Ord. akin 



to Thea and CanuHia. JufT. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, in five 

 deep, orbicular, concave, rather unequal fegments, with two 

 fmaller ones clofely apphed to its bafe, all permanent and 

 coriaceous. C';r. of one petal, bell-fliaped, in five deep, 

 orbicular, concave, emarginate fegments, longer than the 

 calyx, without any tube. Stam. Filaments numerous, avvl- 

 Ihaped, fliorter thr.i the corolla, and inferted into its bafe 

 in a double row ; anthers linear, ereft, the length of the 

 filaments. Pijl Germen fuperior, roundilfi ; ftyle cylin- 

 drical, as long as the llamens ; lligma capitate. Perk. 

 Berry dry, ovate, fmooth, of two cells. Seeds about eight, 

 convex on one fide, flat on the other. 



Efl". Ch. Corolla bell-fhaped, in five deep fegments, 

 without a tube. Calyx in five deep fegments, with two 

 fmaller at the bafe. Berry dry, of two cells. 



I. T. meridionaiis . Mexican Ternftroemia. Linn. Suppl. 



264. Willd. n. I Leaves obovate, obtufe, emarginate, 



entire. Flower-ftalks axillary, compreffed, recurved. Two 

 outer fegments of the calyx orbicular, fharply keeled. — 

 Gathered by Mutis in Mexico and New Granada. A tree, 

 determinately branched ; the branches thick, rigid, leafy, 

 nearly round, with a fmooth grey bark. Leaves alternate, 

 an inch or rather more in length, on fhort, thick, chan- 

 nelled, purplifh footftalks, obovate, or nearly elliptical, pe- 

 culiarly rigid and coriaceous, fingle-ribbed, fmooth, with a 

 thick fomewhat revolute margin ; their upper furface often 

 dotted with either prominent or deprefTed points ; the under 

 purphfli or rufty, efpecially when young. Stipuhis none. 

 Floiver-Jlalks numerous, axillary, folitary, half the length 

 of the leaves, very thick and rigid, two-edged, brown or 

 purple, curved downwards, deftitute of pubefcence, but, 

 in the dried plant at lead, wrinkled and uneven. Flotvers 

 larger than a hawthorn-bloffum, white. The two fmaller 

 external fcales of the calyx furnifhed with a fharp keel, end- 

 ing in a minute point ; the reft without any keel, thin and 

 membranous at the edge ; all fmooth, orbicular, coriaceous, 

 permanent. Corolla occafionally with fix fegments, at firil 



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globole, then bcU-ftiaped. Berry dry, deftitute of valves. 

 Seeds filky, deep red. Such is the plant of Mutis. Wc 

 have no means of afcertaining whether the Welt Indian one, 

 dcfcribcd by Swartz in his Obfervationes, be the fame or 

 not ; but he fays thefoivcr-Jalks arc terminal, nor does he 

 advert to their clumfy two-edged figure, fo different from 

 the reft of the fpccies, that it could fcarcely have efcaped 

 his notice. 



2. T. ellipt'tca. Elliptical Ternftroemia, or Rottenbane. 

 Swartz Ind. Occ. 939. Willd. n. 2. Vaiil Symb. v. 2. (>i. 

 — Leaves obovate, obtufe, entire. Flower-ftalks lateral, 

 elongated, nearly thread-fliaped. Outer fegments of the 

 calyx ovate, acute, bluntly keeled. — Native of the Weft 

 Indies, on the Sulphur mountains of Montferrat and Guade- 

 loupe, as well as in St. Vincent's. It is faid to be the pre- 

 tended Jefuit's bark, mentioned by Labat. This is Tijljyub 

 with ftout, round, fmooth, difperfed or cluftered branches, 

 leafy towards their extremities. Leaves like the laft, but 

 twice as long, and not emarginate ; their fnotjlalks longer 

 and more flender. Flower-Jlalks an inch and half or two 

 inches long, but flightly drooping or recurved, nearly round, 

 not a quarter fo ftout as the laft, (lightly fwelling upward, 

 red or purplilh. Floiuers rather larger than the foregoing, 

 yellowifh-white, fome of them deftitute of a piftil. The 

 fcales of the calyx are all pointed, the outer ones narrow and 

 ovate, of a fmaller proportion than in T. meridionaiis, and 

 fometimes more than two. 



3. T. japonica. Japan Ternftroemia. Thunb. Tr. of 

 Linn. Soc. v. 2. 335. Willd. n. 4. (Cleyera japonica ; 

 Thunb. Jap. 234. Mokokf; Kxmpf. Am. Exot. 873. 

 t. 774. ) — Leaves obovato-lanceolate, obtufe, nearly entire. 

 Flower-ftalks lateral, fomewhat angular. Outer fegments 

 of the calyx triangular, pointed, (lightly keeled. — Gathered 

 by Thunberg, near Nagafaki m Japan, flowering in autumn. 

 This is a trci', fmooth in every part. Specimens lent us by 

 the finder are fo very nearly akin to the two foregoing 

 fpccies, th.1t it is hard to eftablifh a fpecific dilference be- 

 tween them. The leaves of the Japan plant however are 

 rather more lanceolate, and their margin is fometimes, not 

 conftantly, crenate towards the point. Their furface is 

 quite fmooth, not vifibly dotted. T\\e Jlowerjlalks, about 

 an inch long, are fcattered on the branches, below the leaves, 

 but (lightly recurved, ufually triangular, not comprefTed, 

 Flowers white, (carcely fo large as in T. meridionaiis. Style: 

 fliort and thick. Berry the fize of a currant, red, pointed, 

 with a white, fweet, fubaftringent pulp, and, according to 

 KiEmpfer, only one pellucidyif^. 



4. T. pimBata. Dotted-edged Ternftroemia. Svrartz 

 Prodr. 81. Willd. n. 3. (Taonabo punctata ; Aubl. 

 Guian. 571. t. 228.) — Leaves elliptic -oblong, dotted at 

 the edge. Flower-ftalks axillary, elongated, nearly thread- 

 (baped. Segments of the calyx all pointed. — Gathered by 

 Aublet on the fides of the Serpent mountain in Guiana, 

 bearing flowers and fruit in Auguft and September. A 

 large tree, whofe leaves are bordered with minute glandular 

 points, rough to the touch ; their extremity ulually emar- 

 ginate ; their length about three inches. Floiuer-jlalhs (len- 

 der, about half as long as the leaf with its footftalk. Sta- 

 mens about fixty. Fruit ovate, pointed, of five or fix cells. 

 Aublet having feen it in an unripe ftate only, took it for a 

 capfule, but Swartz aiferts it to be a berry. 



^.T.dcntata. Toothed Ternftroemia. Swartz Prodr. 81. 

 Willd. n. 5. (Taonabo dentata ; Aubl. Guian. 569. t. 227.) 

 — Leaves elliptical, pointed, ftrongly ierrated. Flower- 

 ftalks lateral or axillai-y, fingle-flowered Gathered by 



Aublet, in the fame place as the preceding, and at the fame 

 feafon. A tree, whofe trunk is twenty-five feet, or more, 



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