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* TALAUMA Candôllii. 
De Candolle's Talaum Tree. | 
POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. MAGNoLIAcRm. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System 
of Botany, p. 24.) Ez 
TALAUMA Juss. Petala 9-15, ordine ternario serialia, Stamina 
numerosa, antheris anticis. Ovaria plura, coadunata, biovulata. Fructus 
coadunatione unicus, strobiliformis, lignosus, irregulariter dehiscens, seminibus 
1-2 pendulis, in foveolis receptaculi centralis cylindraceo-elongati dehiscentia 
liberi. Blume Flora Jave Magnol. p. 29. 
floribus 9-12-petalis, 
T. Candollii ; foliis oblongis utrinque acuminatis glabris, 
. Bl. L c t. Ds 
petalis exterioribus calycinis religuis triente brevioribus. 
Magnolia odoratissima. Reinwdt. 
A native of Java, where it is found growing in thickets 
to the height of about 15 feet, and perfuming the air with 
so delicious an odour that the very Javanese think it worth 
the pains of cultivation. 
nthestove. Dr. Blume 
' Its flowe illingly i 
rs open very unwillingly monly appear ; but 
has represented them closed, as they com ) 
we were so fortunate as to be able to sketch the plant with 
its flowers fully expanded, just as they were about to drop 
off. At first they are a pale lemon colour, but they change 
to a sort of buff, in which state we have represented them. 
It is a tender stove plant, increased po by inarching 
upon Magnolia pumila, which Dr. Blume as ascertained 
to be also a Talauma, or by layers, or by having a pot 0 
earth fastened round a weai branch.. It flowers ın 
February and March. 
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* The vernacular name of the South American species. 
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