fine addition to the garden flora of the milder parts of the 
kingdom, such as Cornwall, South Wales, or wherever the 
large-leaved Rhododendrons thrive. The plant from which 
our figure was prepared flowered at Kew in July, 1908. It 
was presented by Messrs. Veitch in 1902, having been 
introduced by Mr. E. H. Wilson for that firm during his 
first journey in China. The Magnolias like a warm open 
soil that does not readily parch. A mixture of sandy peat 
with the ordinary soil is a help to them when newly planted 
out. 
Descriprion.—Shrub, 8 ft. high, or a small tree 15-30 ft. 
high; bark lenticelled. Leaves ovate, ovate-oblong or 
elliptic, somewhat mucronulate and obtuse or rounded, rarely 
retuse, at the tip, rounded or obtuse at the base, 7-13 in. 
long, 4—7 in. broad, persistent, coriaceous, when dry closely 
and conspicuously reticulated, glabrous above except at 
times along the midrib, puberulous beneath and pruinose, 
the midrib prominent and pubescent, lateral nerves 11—16 
on each side; petiole 2-44 in. long, plano-convex ; stipules 
about 25 in. long, pubescent outside, caducous. Flowers 
creamy white, odorous. Sepals 3, oblong, 34 in. long, 
14 in. broad, reflexed. Petals about 7, narrow obovate or 
spathulate-obovate, unequal, 34-41 in. long, 14-2 in. broad. 
Stamens 3-1 in. long; filaments about 2 lin. long; anther- 
cells sublinear, discrete, the connective extending beyond 
the cells as a lanceolate acute appendix. Carpels tomentose 
below, gradually narrowed upwards and there almost 
glabrous, suleate on the outer side. Fruit 44-54 in. long, 
ovoid-oblong ; follicles somewhat rhomboid, shortly ecus-— 
pidate. Seeds, according to Franchet, obovate, shining. 
Fig. 1, anther; 2, carpel; 3, fruit:—1 and 2 enlarged. 
