656 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.  Michelia. 
MICHELIA. Schreb. gen, n. 943. 
Grn. Cuar. Spathe one-leayed, deciduous. Corol 
many-petalled. Germ numerous, one-celled, few-seed- 
ed; attachment interior. Capsules numerous, few-seed- 
ed. Embryo centripetal, furnished with a perisperm. 
1. M. Champaca. Willd. 2. 1260. 
. Leaves lanceolate, round, smooth, entire. Flowers 
aailary solitary, short-peduncled. 
Champaca. Rheed. Mal. 1. t. 19. 
Sampacca. Rumph. Amb. 2, t. 67 and 68. 
Beng. Champaka, or Chumpa. 
. Sans. Champaca. See Asiat. Res. 4, 287. 
__A pretty large tree, common in gardens over most parts 
of India. . Flowering time the rainy season; the seed 
ripens in the cold season. Trunk straight; branches 
ascending and spreading. Leaves alternate, round the 
extremities of the branchlet, petioled, lanceolate, waved, 
smooth, entire, from four to six inches long. . - Petioles 
marked on the upper margins with the cicatrices of the 
stipules. Stipules spathiform, adjoined to the petioles, 
caducous, , Peduncles axillary, short, thick, one-flower- 
ed, Flowers large, yellow, delightfully fragrant. Bractes 
several, below the calyx, like it, but smaller, é also cadu- 
cous. Calyx a conical, leathery ‘sheath bursting on one 
side, and falling off before the flowers expand. Petals 
‘from twelve to twenty, lanceolate, the exterior larg re 
Filaments subulate, inserted into the receptacle below 
the germs. Anthers, two, growing on the inside of each 
es filament. Germs numerous, forming an imbricated cone, 
_ ‘semi-oyate, furrowed ¢ on the outside, one-celled, with from 
four to twelve ovula in two vertical : rows , attached to the 
inner ‘angle € of th the cell. Style and | stigma f from a short 
Pgh ragg« : , glandular, yellow. body. ) ik 
— ‘mat on sessile, distinct, ob oblo a Stas aang 
