Tas. 6179. 
MICHELIA LANUGINOSA. 
Native of the Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. Magnotiacem.—Tribe MAGNOLIER. 
Genus Micuetia, Linn. ; (Benth. § Hook.f’ Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 19). 
Micuetta lanuginosa ; ramulis foliis gubtus alabastrisque sericeo v. velutino- 
tomentosis foliis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis supra glaberrimis, 
floribus sessilibus pallide stramineis, sepalis petalisque ad 18 anguste 
lineari-oblongis obtusis acutisve, ovariis et gynophoro dense tomentosis, 
carpellis maturis paucis discretis obovoideis pedicellatis verrucosis pedi- 
cellatis. 
M. lanuginosa, Wall. Tent. Fl. Nap., p. 8, t. 5; Cat. n. 6493; Hook. f- 
§ Thoms. Fl. Ind., vol. i. p. 80; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind., vol. i. p. 43. 
M. velutina, DC. Prodr., vol. i. p. 79. 
Described as a lofty tree in Nipal, according to Wallich, 
by whom it was discovered in 1821; though I never saw it 
forming anything but a small tree in Sikkim, where I found 
it at an elevation of 6-7000 feet in 1848. It has also been 
collected in Bhotan by Griffith, and in the Khasia Moun- 
tains by Lobb. The flowers, which are very sweet-scented, 
vary much in size, from three to four and a half inches in 
diameter, in the number of sepals and petals, and in the 
depth of their straw colour. eo 
Michelia lanuginosa was sent to Kew from Sikkim by Dr. 
Thomson, when superintendent of the Botanic Gardens of 
Calcutta, about twenty years ago, and was planted out in the 
Temperate House about ten years ago. It now forms a small 
sparingly-branched tree, twelve feet high, It never flowered 
till the present year, when many buds formed in March, and 
which, owing to the cold and cloudy spring, never opened 
till May, by which time most had fallen off unopened. 
Wallich observes that the scent of the flowers is less power- 
ful, and therefore more agreeable, than in the other common 
Indian species of the genus, of which the Champaca is the 
best known. 
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Descr. A tree; branchlets, leaves beneath, and buds 
AUGUST Ist, 1875. 
