MAGNOLIACEAE.—MAGNOLIA 403 
Mokkwuren 2. Banks, Icon. Kaempfer 44 (1791). 
Magnolia obovata Thunberg in Trans. Linn. Soc. II. 336 (1794), quoad syn- 
onymum Mokkwuren et Icon. Select. t. 44. — Willdenow, Spec. II. 1257 
(1799), synonymo M. obovata Thunberg et Icon. Kaempfer t. 43 excluden- 
dis, — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. Pl. Jap. I. 16 (1875). — Keisuke Ito, 
Fig. Descr. Pl. Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, I. t. 7 “ Shimokuren " (1884). — 
Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 23 (1886). — Finet & Gagnepain in 
Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LII. Mém. IV. 37 (1905); Contrib. Fl. As. Or. II. 37 
(1907). 
Magnolia purpurea Curtis in Bot. Mag. XI. t. 390 (1797). 
Magnolia discolor Ventenat, Jard. Malm. t. 24 (1803). 
Magnolia gracilis Salisbury, Parad. Lond. II. t. 87 (1807). 
Yulania japonica Spach, Hist. Végét. VII. 466 (1839). 
Buergeria obovata Siebold & Zuccarini in Abh. Akad. Münch. IV. pt. II. 187 
(FL Jap. Fam. Nat. Y. 79) (1843). 
Talauma? Sieboldi Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. YI. 257 (Prol. Fl. Jap. 
145) (1865-1866). 
T'alauma obovata Hance in Jour. Bot. XX. 2 (non Korthals) (1882). 
Magnolia denudata Schneider, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. I. 330 (non Desrous- 
seaux) (1905). 
Western Hupeh: Changyang Hsien, wayside thicket, rare, alt. 500-600 m., 
April 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 192). 
This Magnolia so long cultivated in China and Japan is without doubt a native 
of China, probably of the warm temperate districts south of the Yangtsze river. 
It is questionable, however, if the specimen enumerated above is a genuinely wild 
one or merely from an escape from cultivation. 
The fact that Desrousseaux in his otherwise correct deactiption made the mis- 
take of calling the flowers white, is not a sufficient reason to reject his name, as 
pointed out in the note under M. denudata, where also it is explained how he came 
to make this mistake. The name M. obovata used by almost all authors for 
M. liliflora must now replace M. hypoleuca Siebold & Zuccarini, for Thunberg’s 
description of M. obovata and part of its synonyms refer to M. hypoleuca and his 
type specimen represents this species. Thunberg confused two other species with 
his M. obovata, namely, M. liliflora and M. denudata, but to M. liliflora belong only 
the reference to Kaempfer's Mokkwuren and that to t. 44 of Kaempfer's Icones, and 
to M. denudata Desrousseaux belongs only the reference to t. 43 of Kaempfer's 
Icones, while the description of the leaves as well as the Japanese synonym Fo- 
no-ki (now transliterated Ho-no-ki) and the synonym M. glauca (at least in part) 
belong to M. hypoleuca Siebold & Zuccarini. Willdenow (l. c.) was apparently 
the first to change 'Thunberg's description of M. obovata to make it apply to the 
leaves of M. liliflora, and all later authors have followed him. 
CONSPECTUS SPECIERUM ASIATICARUM.! 
Of some of the species (Nos. 17, 21, 22) the flowers, and of No. 18 the leaves, 
are unknown; these have been placed near the species to which they seem most 
closely related according to their other characters. 
1 Magnolia Martini Léveillé in Bull. Soc. Agric. Sci. Sarthe, LIX. 321 (1904); in 
Fedde Rep. Nov. Sp. VI. 374 (1909), from Kwei-chou has been omitted, as we have 
Seen no specimens and the description is too incomplete; it is probably not a 
Magnolia, but a Michelia. 
