1. Stewartia L. Sp. Pl. 698. 1753
Description
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1. Stewartia L. Sp. Pl. 698. 1753
Shrubs, with deciduous membranous serrulate leaves, and large showy axillary solitary flowers on short peduncles. Sepals 5, rarely 6, slightly unequal, ovate or lanceolate. Petals of the same number, obovate. Stamens monadelphous below; anthers versatile. Ovary 5-celled; styles 1 or 5; ovules 2 in each cell, anatropous, ascending; capsule ovoid, woody, 5-celled, loculicidally dehiscent. Embryo straight. Cotyledons oval, longer than the inferior radicle. [Named in honor of John Stuart, Marquis of Bute.]
Six species, natives of North America and Japan. Type species: Stewartia Malachodendron L.
Style 1, compound; stigma 5-lobed; seeds marginless; capsule subglobose. | 1. | S. Malachodendron. |
Styles S. distinct: seeds wing-margined: cansule ovoid, 5-angled. | 2. | S. pentagyna. |
1. Stewartia Malachodéndron L. Round-Fruited Stewartia
Fig. 2876
Stewartia Malachodendron L. Sp. Pl. 698. 1753. Stewartia virginica Cav. Diss. 5: pl. 158. f. 2. 1787.
A shrub, 6°-12° high, the branches pubescent when young. Leaves oval, acute or acuminate at each end, 2'-3' long, 1 1/2'-2' wide, serrulate with mucronate-tipped teeth, pubescent below. glabrous above; petioles 2"-4" long; flowers axillary, 3'-4' broad, solitary or occasionally in pairs, very short-peduncled; sepals ovate or orbicular, obtuse, silky-pubescent, united at the base; petals 5. white, sparingly pubescent on the under side, minutely crenulate; filaments purple; anthers blue; style I, compound; stigma 5-lobed; capsule subglobose, 6"-8" long, pubescent; seeds marginless.
In woods, Virginia to Florida, west to Louisiana. April-May.
2. Stewartia Pentāgyna L'Her. Angled- Fruited Or Mountain Stewartia
Fig. 2877
Stuartia pentagyna L'Her. Stirp. Nov. 155. pl. 74. 1784.
Malachodendron ovatum Cav. Diss. 5: pl. 158. f. 2. 1787.
A shrub resembling the preceding species. Leaves oval, or ovate, larger, 4'-6' long, 2'-3' wide, acuminate at the apex, obtuse or sometimes acute at the base, pubescent beneath, mucronate-serrulate or rarely entire; flowers axillary, solitary, 2-3' broad; peduncles 3"-7" long; sepals lanceolate, acutish, hairy; petals 5 or 6, cream-color, crenulate; styles 5, distinct; capsule 5-an-gled, ovoid, acute, 9" long, densely pubescent; seeds wing-margined.
In woods, mountains of Kentucky and North Carolina to Georgia and Alabama. June.
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