Ternstrcemiaceae
A natural order of trees and shrubs, rarely climbing, mostly inhabiting tropical America and Eastern Asia. Flowers regular, herm-aphrodite or rarely diclinous, showy or mediocre, rarely small; petals five, rarely four, six, or seven, free or shortly coalescing at base, the inner ones often larger; petals five, rarely four or six to nine, hypogynous, free or often coalescing at base in a ring or short tube, imbricated or twisted; stamens usually numerous; anthers basifixed and erect, or versatile, two-celled; disk none; ovary free; peduncles axillary, one or many-flowered, or the flowers in terminal, axillary, racemes, rarely disposed in elongated panicles; bracteoles under the calyx often two. Fruit sometimes fleshy, coriaceous, or slightly woody and in-dehiscent, or a loculicidal or septicidal, dehiscent capsule. Leaves alternate or very rarely opposite, simple and undivided, or rarely digitately three to five-foliolate, entire or often serrated, coriaceous or rarely membranous, penninerved; stipules wanting or very rarely minute and highly caducous. The most important economical product of this family is Tea, Camellia theifera (=Thea chinensis). Although two centuries have not passed since Tea was first used in Europe, the annual importation now exceeds twenty-two millions of pounds. The order comprises about thirty-three genera and 260 species. Examples: Camellia, Caryocar, Freziera, Ternstraemia.