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sistent. Petals 8, longer than the sepals, broad-lanceolate. 
Stamens 8, hypogynous : filaments subulate : anthers small, 
white. Ovary globose, green : style very short : stigma 6- 
eleft, spreading, persistent. Berry globular, green, 6-celled, 
rather larger than a black currant : seeds very numerous, small, 
roundish, compressed, black, buried in the pulp. 
ORDER XXX. TERNS TRCEMIACEiE. 
Calycine sepals 5 , concave, unequal, coriaceous, im- 
bricated, obtuse, persistent, generally bracteolated. 
Petals 5 , inserted on a hypogynous disk, often com- 
bined at the base. Stamens oo, hypogynous ; filaments 
short ; anthers bilocular. Ovary ovate : styles 9.-5. 
Fruit ovato-globose, with the cells corresponding in 
number with that of the styles, either a dry berry and 
indehiscent, or a capsule and dehiscent. Seeds cc, 
attached to a central column : albumen none, or in a 
very small quantity : embryo straight, bowed, or fold- 
ed back, with the radicle turned to the hilum : coty- 
ledons oblong. 
Trees or shrubs, with alternate exstipulated coriaceous 
leaves, and flowers peduncled axillary and terminal. 
I. Ternstrcemia. 
Calycine sepals 5-6, bibracteolated at the base. 
Petals 5-6, coalescing at the base. Stamens oo in two 
rows: anthers adnate, oblong, glabrous. Styles united 
into 1. Berry dry, 2-celled ; cells 3-4-seeded. — De 
Cand. 
Trees, natives of America: with the peduncles 1 -flowered, 
bracteolated at the base. — Named, in honour of Ternstroem, a 
Traveller in China. Lunan. 
1. Ternstrcemia meridionalis. TVest India Tern - 
strcemia. 
Leaves very entire obovate subemarginate, pedun- 
cles scarcely longer than the flowers. 
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