Cleyera
(named after Andrew Cleyer, M.D., a Dutch physician of the seventeenth century, once resident in Batavia). ORD. Ternstromiaceoe. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs, with the habit of Ternstromia. Flowers small, axillary, stalked, sometimes fragrant. Leaves alternate, undivided, leathery, similar to those of a Camellia. For culture, &c., see Ternstromia.
C. japonica (Japanese). fl. whitish-yellow, fragrant, axillary, solitary. l. oblong-lanceolate, veinless, serrulated at the apex. h. 6ft. Japan, 1820. (S. Z. F. J. 81.) C. j. tricolor (three-coloured). l. dark green, with longitudinal and oblique bands of greyish-green; margin creamy-white, and tinged with bright rose colour, which is very conspicuous in the younger foliage. A very handsome variegated greenhouse plant.
C. theoides (Tea-like). fl. cream - white, drooping, 1/2in. in diameter, solitary, on axillary, one-flowered peduncles. September. l. alternate on short petioles, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, serrated. h. 4ft. to 5ft. Jamaica, 1850. SYN. Freziera theoides. (B. M. 4546.)