TERNSTROMIA, in botany; a genus of plants belonging to the class of polycarpia, and order of monocarpia. The calyx is monophyllous and quinquepartite; the corolla is monopetalous, quinquepartite or sexpartite, globular, and
bell-shaped: the berry is dry, bilocular, and valveless. There is only one species, the meridionalis. There Terpander, Terra.