Tab. 6370. 

 MAGNOLIA STELLATA. 



Native of Japan. 



Nat. Orel. Magnoliace.e. — Tribe Magnolie>e. 

 Genus Magnolia, Linn. {Bentli. et Hooli.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 18.) 



Magnolia stellata ; foliis hysteranthiis deciduis obovato- v. elliptico-oblongis 

 basi angustatis obtusis acutis v. subacximinatis junioribus subtus pubescen- 

 tibus, gemmis alabastrisque lanatis, sepabs petalis multo bfevioribus elliptico- 

 oblongis obtusis dorso-lanatis, petalis numerosis lineari- oblongis obtusis 

 albis patulis demum reflexis, staminibus paucis, antheris appendiculatis, 

 carpellis ad 50 glabris 2-ovulatis stylis subulatis, maturis paucis corticatis 

 axi adhserentibus bivalvim delriscentibus, superne cuspidatis. 



M. stellata, Maximov. in Bull. Acad. Petersb.; Mel. Biol. p. 506, t. viii. ; 

 Franch. et Savat. Enum. Plant. Jap. p. 15. 



M. Haleiana, 8. B. Parsons ; Gard. Chron. N. &.vol. ix. p. 378, cum I<>. Xijlog. 



Talauma stellata, Miquel, Prolus, Flor. Japon. p. 145; Ann. Mus.-Lugd. Bat. 

 p. 257. 



Buekgeria stellata, Sieb. and Zucc. Flor. Jap. Fam. Nat. p. 78. tab. Ha. 



This very interesting addition to the British Arboretum 

 has been long known to botanists, as the genns Bucrgeria, 

 founded on an erroneous observation as to the nature of the 

 fruit, which its authors had seen only in an imperfect state, 

 and which, had it been correct would have referred the 

 plant to the genus Talauma, as subsequently indicated by 

 Miquel. Quite recently it has been named Magnolia 

 Halleana by Mr. S. B. Parsons, of Flushing. (U.S.Am.), in 

 compliment to Mr. Gr. R. Hall, of Japan, its introducer into 

 America, as we learn from a notice with a plate in the 

 ' Garden' (vol. xiii. p. 15.) 



Like most other introductions of horticultural interest from 

 Japan, this has been in cultivation by the natives of the Islands, 



july 1st. 1878. 



