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Magnolia conspicua Salisbury, Parad. Lond. I. t. 38 (1806). — Aiton, Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. III. 330 (1811). — Sims in Bot. Mag. XXXIX. t. 1621 (1814). — 
Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersbourg, XVII. 419 (1872); in Mél. 
Biol. VIII. 508 (1872). — Keisuke Ito, Fig. Descr. Pl. Koishikawa Bot. 
Gard. 1. t. 9 (1884). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 23 (1886). — 
Diels in Bot. Jahrb. X XIX. 321 (1900). — Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. 
Bot. France, LII. Mém. IV. 38 (1905); Contrib. Fl. As. Or. II. 38 (1907). 
Magnolia Yulan Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. II. 6 (1809). — Bonpland, Descr. 
Pl. Malm. 53, t. 20 (1813). — De Candolle, Syst. I. 455 (1818); Prodr. I. 
81 (1824). — Loddiges, Bot. Cab. XII. t. 1187 (1826). — Bunge in Mém. 
Acad. Sci. Sav. Éir. St. Pétersbourg, Il. 77 (Enum. Pl. Chin. Bor. 3) 
(1833). — Debeaux, Fl. Shangh. 14 (1875). 
Magnolia obovata, a. denudata De Candolle, Syst. I. 457 (1818), excludendis 
synonymis Kaempferi et Thunbergii; Prodr. I. 81 (1824). 
Magnolia hirsuta Thunberg, Pl. Jap. Nov. Sp. 8 (nomen nudum) (1824), 
secundum specimen originale. 
Yulania conspicua Spach, Hist. Végét. VII. 464 (1839). 
Magnolia Kobus Siebold & Zuccarini in Abh. Akad. Münch. IV. pt. 2, 187 
(Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. I. 79) (non De Candolle) (1843), quoad descriptionem. 
Kiangsi: Kuling, thickets, alt. 1300 m., July 28, 1907 (No. 1654*; 
bush 2-4 m. tall, springing from stump of a felled tree); same locality, 
July 31, 1907 (No. 1654; bush 2-4 m. tall). 
This Magnolia is exceedingly common around Kuling but only in the form of 
a bush, all the trees having been eut down. Our material consists of leafy shoots 
only and we have no knowledge of the color of the flowers. The leaves and shoots 
agree exactly with the typical Yulan and we are disposed to regard this locality 
as the original home of this familiar plant so widely cultivated in China since the 
Tang dynasty (a.D. 618-907). 
As the nomenclature of this species has been much involved with that of Mag- 
nolia liliflora Desro ux (M. obovata Thunberg pr. p., M. purpurea Curtis) & 
1 Through the kindness of Professor O. Juel we have received photographs of 
the Magnolias of Thunberg’s herbarium preserved at Upsala; they prove that the 
conclusions we had arrived at from Thunberg’s descriptions and quotations were 
correct. There are four named specimens of Magnolia in Thunberg’s herbarium 
which are referable to three species of Magnolia and to a Edgeworthia: 
Magnolia obovata (consisting of a branch with leaves) = M. obovata Thunberg 
(M. hypoleuca Siebold & Zuccarini). 
M: ou tomentosa (two branchlets, each with a flower) = M. kobus De Can- 
olle. 
Magnolia hirsuta (two branchlets, each with a flower) = M. denudata Desrous- 
seaux. 
Magnolia sericea (a leafy branch with a few peduncles from which the flowers 
have fallen) = Edgeworthia papyrifera Siebold & Zuccarini. 
The specimen named in 1824 M. sericea by Thunberg had served him in 1794 for 
the description of his M. tomentosa, as a comparison of the specimens with the de- 
scription clearly shows; moreover, the quotation of the Japanese name “‘ Mitsmata” 
(for Mitsumata = Edgeworthia papyrifera) leaves little doubt that this identification 
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