Tab. 8428. 
MAGNOLIA. Kopvs. 
a 
Japan. 
MAGNOLIACEAR. Tribe MAGNOLIEAE. 
Maevouia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 18, 
Magnolia Kobus, DC. Syst. vol. i. p. 456 et Prodr. vol. i. p. 81; Mig. Prolus, 
£1, Jap. p. 146; Sargent, For. Fl. Jap. p. 9, t. 3; Guard. Chron. 1905, 
Vol. xxxvii. p. 265, cum ic.; Shirasawa, le. Jap, vol. i. t. 89, fig. 1-12; 
C. K. Schneider, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. vol: i. p. 329; species M. stellatae, 
Maxim., et M. salicifoliae, Maxim., affinis; ab illa statura altiore et petalis 
paucioribus latioribusque, ab hac gemmis pedunculisque pubescentibus 
et foliis majoribus subtus haud glaucis facillime distinguenda. 
Arbor, culta 4-5-metralis jam florifera, sylvatica 20-25-metralis ; coma juventute 
anguste pyramidali, demum subsphaerica; ramuli attriti aromatici, 
hornotini intense brunnei nodis pubescentibus, annotini fere atri, gla- 
brescentes ; gemmae pubescentes. Folia decidua, obovata, basi cuneata, 
apice obtuse cuspidata, margine integra, 10-18 cm. longa, 5-10 em. lata, 
glabra vel glabrescentia, subtus conspicue reticulata; petioli 1+25-2° 5 em. 
longi. Flores speciosi, 10 cm. lati, ad apices ramulorum lateralium solitarii. 
Sepala 3, subulata, caduca, 1°5 cm. longa, viridescentia, glabra, Petala 6, 
alba sed extra medio purpureo-lineata, 2-seriata, exteriora 3 oblongo- 
spathulata, 5 cm. longa, 2 em. lata, interiora 3 angustiora paulo breviora. 
Stamina numerosissima; filamenta purpurea, 2 mm. longa; antherae 
lutescentes, applanatae, 6 mm. longae. Carpeiia secus axin centralem in 
columnam subcylindricam 1°5-2 cm. longam aggregata. Fructus 10 cm. 
longus, brunneus, saepe contortus curvatusve. Semina miniata, 8 mm. 
lata.—W. J. Bran, 
Although the Magnolia here figured is less effective than 
some other members of the genus so far as its flowers are 
concerned, it is at least in one of its forms one of the most 
striking. If, for the genus, the flowers be small, the tree 
which bears them is, according to Professor Sargent, in 
the neighbourhood of Sapporo in Japan, one that attains a 
height of over 70 feet with a straight clean trunk 6 feet in 
girth. In stature therefore it rivals M. hypoleuca, Sieb. 
and Zuce., another native of Japan figured at t. 8077 of 
this work, and M. acuminata, Linn., f., from the eastern 
United States. The nearest allies of M. Kobus are, how- 
over, M. stellata, Maxim., figured at t. 6370 of this work, 
which is always a small shrub and which has from twelve 
Aprin, 1912. 
