Bas 
Tas. 6793. 
MAGN OLIA Campsenuu. 
Native of the Eastern Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. Magnortacem.—Tribe MaGnoxien. 
Genus Maenotta, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook, f. Gen, Pi. vol. i. p. 18.) 
Maaenouta Campbellii; arborea, foliis deciduis ellipticis oblongis ovatisve abrupte 
acuminatis subtus sericeis denum glabratis, floribus ante folia enatis maximis 
roseis, bracteis amplis late ovatis fusco-sericeis exterioribus plerumque foliferis 
intimis flori appressis, sepalis petalisque conformibus 12-15 elliptico-oblongis 
obtusis, carpellis in spicam cylindricam confertis 1-2-spermis. 
M. Campbellii, Hook. f. e¢ Thomson in Hook. f. Ill. Him. Plant, t. 4,5, and in 
Flora Indica, p. 77 ; Hook. f. Flora of British India, vol.i. p. 41; Gamble, 
Manual of Indian Timbers, p. 5, and Trees and Shrubs of Darjeeling, p. 2. 
Magnolia, Griff. Posth. Papers, vol. ii. p. 153; and Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 656. 
‘This, which is in every respect, except in having deciduous 
foliage, the noblest species of the genus, was, before the 
destruction of the grand forests that clothed the higher 
elevations of the outer ranges of the Sikkim Himalaya, by 
far the most notable tree of the district, and I have seen 
the flanks of a mountain rose-coloured in spring from its 
abundance and its habit of flowering before the development 
of the leaves. It was discovered by Dr. Griffith in the 
Bhotan Himalaya at 8000 feet elevation (near Tongsa), 
but his specimens were very imperfect, and his collections 
being buried in the vaults of the India House, nothing 
further was known of the plant till I met with it in Sikkim ; 
he, however, describes it in his (posthumously published) 
‘Itinerary Notes,” p. 153, No. 755, as a large tree, leafless 
when flowering, with flowers a span in diameter; the 
sepals (inner bracts P) green and petals white. This work 
did not reach England till after the publication of the 
‘* Tilustrations of Himalayan Plants,” in which M. Campbellit 
first appeared. ; 
As a species, M. Campbellii ranks near M. Yulan, and 
others with deciduous leaves, whilst in its arboreous habit 
: it has no rival. The trunk attains a height of eighty feet, 
JANUARY lst, 1885, 
