116 
THALAM [FLORAE. 
nato-serrated, pedicels axillary solitary bearing about 
8 flowers in a head. 
HAB. Tweedside road, opposite Sheldon Works, Port-Ro 
FL. May. 
A tree, about 20 feet in height : branches subterete, ash- 
coloured, glabrous. Leaves crowded at the ends of the 
branches, petiolate, oblong, acute at the base, rounded and 
emarginate at the apex, distantly serrato-crenated, coriaceous, 
nerved and veined, very glabrous, about 4 inches long and 2 
broad : petiole short, terete, slightly grooved above. Pedun- 
cles axillary, solitary, not so long as the petiole, compressed, 
bearing about eight small greenish shortly pedicelled flowers in 
a head. Calycine sepals imbricated : the outer ones 4-5, much 
smaller than the others, rounded ; the inner ones 4-5, oval, ob- 
tuse. Petals usually 5, smaller than the inner sepals and al- 
ternating with them, inserted on a hypogynous disk, oblong, 
obtuse, horizontally spreading. Stamens 0. Ovary conical : 
style scarcely any : stigma obtuse, subentire. Berry (drupe ?) 
size of a gooseberry, spherical mono-pyrene, nut 2-celled, with 
one of the cells abortive : seeds solitary, orbiculate, compressed : 
embryo lamellated. 
I have met with only one tree of this species. A distinguished 
Botanist, to whom I submitted some rather imperfect speci- 
mens, coincided with me in opinion, that it approached in some 
respects to the genus to which I have for the present referred 
it. 
Calycine sepals 5 , bibracteolated at the base, coria- 
ceous rounded. Petals 5, subadnate with the urceole 
of the stamens. Style 1. Stigmata 5. Capsule 5- 
celled, 5-valved, with the cells 2-seeded. Seeds ex- 
panded at one end into a leafy wing. 
Name, in honour of James Gordon, a correspondent of Lin- 
naeus, and a Nurseryman in the neighbourhood of London. 
1. Gordonia haematoxylon. Blood-wood. 
Peduncles thick very short, leaves petiolate ovato- 
lanceolate acuminate serrate, petals distinct, styles 5 
distinct, fruit oblongo-ovate subpentagonal, cells 2- 
seeded. 
Swartz, FL Ind. Occ. 1 199. 
IiAB. Mountains, not uncommon. 
FL. January — March.' 
III. Gordonia. 
