T. Gállica.
Támarix Gállica, L. (French Tamarisk.) Leaves very small, acute; spray very slender, abundant. A sub-evergreen shrub or small tree, 5 to 20 ft. high; with very small pinkish flowers, in spike-like clusters, blooming from May to October. A very beautiful and strange-looking plant, which, rather sheltered by other trees, can be successfully grown throughout.
Order V. TERNSTRŒMIÀCEÆ.
(Tea or Camellia Family.)
An order of showy-flowered trees and shrubs of tropical and subtropical regions, here represented by the following genera:
Genus 7. STUÁRTIA.
Shrubs or low trees with alternate, simple, exstipulate, ovate, serrulate leaves, soft downy beneath. Flowers large (2 in.), white to cream-color, solitary and nearly sessile in the axils of the leaves; blooming in early summer. Fruit a 5-celled capsule with few seeds; ripe in autumn.
S. pentágyna.
1. Stuártia pentágyna, L'Her. (Stuartia.) Leaves thick, ovate, acuminate, acute at base, obscurely mucronate, serrate, finely pubescent, 3 to 4 in. long, one half as wide. Flowers whitish cream-colored, one petal much the smallest; stamens of the same color. Pod 5-angled.