with a dark bark, that of the branches being nearly black ; 
the wood is white and soft, with about twelve rings to the 
inch, and is occasionally used for planking. Gamble, in 
his valuable work on Indian timbers, says that it 1s now 
(1881) growing scarce in Sikkim, whereas when I was in 
that country upwards of thirty years ago, it was one of 
the commonest trees at about 8000 to 9000 feet on the 
hills near Darjeeling. It was chosen by Dr. Thomson and 
myself to commemorate the eminent public services of the 
late Dr. Archibald Campbell, for many years Political 
Resident at Darjeeling, to whom the rise and progress of 
that magnificent hill station is due, and who has further 
contributed largely to our knowledge of the geography, 
natural productions, arts, manufactures, and people of the 
Nepal and Sikkim Himalaya. 
Our plate gives a very indifferent idea of the size and 
colour which the flowers of this plant attain; Mr. Gamble 
says that they measure as much as ten inches in diameter, 
and they are often of a deep rose colour. I have seen four 
or five such on a branch a foot and a half long, resembling | 
a bunch of nelumbium flowers, but far more vividly coloured. 
Repeated attempts have been made to introduce Magnolia 
Campbellit by seed, but on arrival the fleshy albumen has 
always been found to have decayed and killed the minute 
embryo. Living plants have been sent by Drs. Anderson 
and King, of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, but they have 
proved too tender for the open air in the Kast of England. 
In Ireland, however, it has succeeded. I saw a small tree © 
of it in Mr. Crawford’s well-known garden near Cork in 
1878; this flowered in March of the present year, when 
that gentleman kindly forwarded the flower for figuring in 
this work. At Kew it grows well in the temperate house, 
but has not hitherto flowered. The leaves were fully 
developed on Mr. Crawford’s plant in July, and were then 
added to the drawing. The fruit and seed, and the analyses 
of these, are added from the “ Illustrations of Himalayan 
Plants.” In the south of France and in Italy it has 
flowered on several occasions.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Leafing branch ; 2, flowering ditto; 3, stamen; 4, stigma ; 5, fruit; 
6, seed; 7, vertical section of ditto; 8, embryo :—all but fi s. 3, 4, 7, 8, of the 
natural size. : 
