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woods and thickets, alt. 1300 m. June 22, 1910 (No. 4601; tree 20 m. 
tall, 2 m. girth); Changyang Hsien, moist woods, April 6, 1900, and 
September 1901 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 21, 21* and seed No. 688). 
Szech’uan: without locality, A. Henry (No. 5651). — Cultivated 
in Japan. 
This handsome variety is the common Magnolia in western Hupeh and eastern 
Szech’uan and is fairly plentiful in moist woods and thickets between 1000-1800 
m. altitude. The bark on the trunk and older branches is light gray, rather smooth 
and peals off in small irregular flakes; the branches are ascending and spread- 
ing giving the tree a pyramidal outline but commonly in the large trees they are 
spreading, forming a flat-topped tree. The flowers are saucer-shaped and vary 
from rose-red without to rose or pale pink within; the stamens and the carpels 
are also rose-red in color. In early April this Magnolia with its handsome, 
fragrant flowers is a striking object in the woodland landscape. 
A colloquial name is “ Yin-tuen shu ” and the bark like that of allied species 
is valued as a drug known as * Mu-pi." Pictures of this tree will be found under 
Nos. 567, 579 and 0124 of the collection of Wilson’s photographs and also in his 
Vegetation of Western China, Nos. 306, 307. 
Magnolia denudata, var. elongata Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 
Arbor 12-15-metralis, trunco ambitu 1-2 m., ramis erecto-patulis. 
Folia glabra, oblongo-obovata, breviter subito acuminata, basi cuneata, 
12-15 em. longa et 4.5-6 cm. lata. Flores albi; fragrantes; sepala 
petalaque oblongo-obovata v. spathulato-oblonga, 7-9 cm. longa et 
2-4 cm. lata; stamina 1.5-1.8 em. longa, filamentis 4-6 mm. longis 
rubris, connectivo apice elongato acuto; gynaecium eum parte stami- 
nifera 3-3.5 cm. longum, stigmatibus quam in typo longioribus. 
Fructus ut in typo. 
Western Hupeh: Changyang Hsien, woodlands and open coun- 
try, alt. 1000-1200 m., April and September 1907 (No. 345, type); 
same locality, April 1901 (Veitch Exped. No. 444). 
This variety resembles the type in its pure white flowers but is readily dis- 
tinguished by its much larger leaves, sepals, petals and stamens. This Magnolia 
is rather rare, but occurs occasionally in western Hupeh and eastern Szech'uan. 
In habit the tree is pyramidal from the ascending and spreading character of the 
branches. 
Here may be added an account of another Chinese species, M. liliflora Des- 
rousseaux, the synonymy of which is much involved with that of the preceding 
species, 
Magnolia liliflora Desrousseaux in Lamarck, Encycl. Méth. Bot. III. 675 
(1791), excepto synonymo: Mokkwuren flore albo Kaempfer, Amoen. 
Mokkwuren “ Frutex Tulipifer . . . flore Lilio-narcissi rubente," Kaempfer, 
Amoen. V. 845 (1712). : 
Magnolia glauca, B. flore magno atropurpureo Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 236 (1784), 
synonymo Fo no ki et descriptione foliorum exceptis. 
