rica, and an equal number which belong to India, Japan, or 

 China. 



Branches round, brown, roughish to the feel: young 

 ones villous, with a thick reddish pith. Leaves eliiptically 

 ovate, pointed, older ones cordate at the base, obsoletely 

 downy above and shining, coated underneath with a shoit 

 thick downy nap, and hence opaque and pale, 5-6 inches 

 long, about 3 broad, with many slanting nerves, deciduous: 

 petiole round, villous, about an inch long. Stipules mem- 

 branous, an inch and an half long, pale villous, of nearly 

 the same shape as the leaflets of the calyx, caducous. Pe- 

 duncles oneflowei'ed, terminal, shorter than the petiole, 

 thick, finely dotted, marked with a circular scar a little 

 below the flower. Flower more than 4 inches in diame- 

 ter, of yellowish buff colour with a slight glaucous tint, 

 upright, veiy faintly odorous. Calyx more than tmce 

 shorter than the petals; leaflets 3, linearly oblong, with a 

 short point, nearly of the same colour as the petals, but 

 tenderer and caducous. Petals 6, flaccid, cuneately obo- 

 vate, with a short point, alternate ones rather narrower, and 

 greener on the outside. 



There had been doubts, whether the Asiatic species 

 would prove to be true Magnolia, when their fruit was ex- 

 amined. The examination has been lately made by Mr. 

 Brown, who finds that the fruit of Asiatic species, in the 

 Banksian Herbarium, does not differ essentially from the 

 fruit of the American ones. 



