figure was obtained is one of a batch purchased for Kew 
from a Japanese nursery in 1906. A few flowers were first 
produced in the spring of 1911; probably as the result of 
the great heat which marked the summer of 1911 a profuse 
crop of flowers appeared in March and April 1912. The 
Jeafy twig in our figure was drawn at the end of May, the 
plant at flowering time being quite leafless. M. salicifolia 
promises to make an elegant tree, an unusual feature 
in the genus. The Kew plants are growing admirably in 
a mixture of sandy loam and peat; the latter is useful in 
encouraging newly planted trees to become established, but 
is not essential at later stages, and therefore need only be 
placed near the roots of newly planted trees. We have so 
far no experience in the propagation of this Magnolia, but it 
will certamly be best on its own roots, so that for some years 
Japanese sources must be relied upon for trees and seeds. 
Desoriprion.— Tree, deciduous, slender, 15-20 ft. high, 
stem 1 ft. thick; new shoots smooth, those a year old 
sparingly lentieelled ; leaf-buds glabrous. Leaves lanceolate 
or oblong-lanceolate, sharply or bluntly acuminate, base 
rounded or somewhat cuneate, 3-6 in. long, 3-2 in. wide, 
dull green above, somewhat glaucous and finely adpressed 
puberulous beneath; lateral nerves 9-10 on each side; 
tiole slender, 2-2 in. long. Flowers at the end of short 
ateral twigs; buds hirsute; open flowers 3-4 in. across; 
pedicels green, stout, about } in. long. Sepals 3, spreading, 
greenish-white, ligulate, 11-12 in. long, soon disappearing. 
Petals 6, pure white, narrowly obovate-oblong, 2-21 in, 
long, 3-3 in. wide. Filaments rose-pink; connective pro- 
duced. Carpels green ; style papillose within. Fruit fleshy, 
1}-3 in. long. Seeds pink. 
Figs. 1 and 2, base of petiole, showing its attachment to the stem; 3 and 4, 
anthers; 5, carpels; 6, two carpels in vertical section :—all enlarged. 
