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6 MAGNOLIACER. MicHELA. 
Spr. syst. 2. p. 644.—Rheed. Mal. 3. t. 38, 89; Rumph. Amb. 2. t. 45.—— 
Malabar, and southern provinces. 
* 18. (3) D. retusa (Thunb. :) leaves obovate, retuse, glabrous, very slight- 
ly toothed, appearing with the flowers: peduncles terminal, solitary, 1-2 (or 
3?-) flowered: stamens of equal length: styles and carpels about 6.—Th. 
in Linn. Soc. Trans. 1. p. 200. t.19 ; Lam. ill. f. 492. f. 2 ; DC. prod. 1. p. 16 i 
Spr. syst. 2. p. 644 ; Wall.! L. n. 6625 ; Wight! cat. n. 23.——Missionaries 
garden ; Klein. 
On the only two specimens we have seen with the peduncles, there are 
either two flowers, or the scars from which they have fallen off. We should 
have considered the D. dentata of Thunberg, as figured in the Lin. Soc. Trans. 
1. t. 20, the same as a three-flowered state of this ; but a specimen named by 
himself in M. De Lessert’s herbarium, having convolute glabrous stipules, 1$ 
Wormia dentata, DC., and is perhaps a variety of W. triquetra, Rottb. Pro- 
bably Thunberg, trusting too much to the number of flowers, had both plants 
in view. 
III. ACROTREMA. Jack. 
Stamens 15, erect: filaments short: anthers adnate, long, linear, opening 
by two terminal pores. Ovaries 3, distinct, each terminated with a style and 
simple stigma: ovules two in each cell. Carpels 3, capsular.—Herbaceous — — 
low plants. Leaves all radical, oblong-obovate, obtuse, toothed, covered 4 
with rigid longish hairs on both sides, but particularly on the midrib and f 
nerves beneath.  Petioles short, their margins dilated into membranaceous 
auricles. Peduncles radical (or scapes), hairy, 8-12-flowered. Flowers pe 
dicellate, racemose. Corolla yellow. 
19, (1) A. Wightianwm (Wall.:) leaves sprinkled with rigid hairs, but 
ood glabrous: lower ovule in each SUM aera aa Wall! L. n. 9669; 
Wight ! cat. n, 24.—  Padenaveram in Travancore. at 
This appears to differ from A. costatum, Jack, which is deseribed with 
leaves not only furnished with rigid hairs, but also tomentose. 
ORDER III.—MAGNOLIACE, Juss. 
Sub-ord. 1. MacexorrEx (Juss.) Sepals 3-6, deciduous. Petals hy- - 
pogynous, 3-27, in several rows. Stamens hypogynous, indefinite, - 
distinct ; anthers adnate, introrse, long, bursting longitudinally, Ova — 
ries numerous in several rows, one-celled: ovules ascending or sus- » 
pended: styles short. Fruit of numerous carpels, which are either de- 
hiscent or indehiscent, distinct or partially connate, sometimes e 
Embryo minute at the base of a fleshy albumen. Leaves alternate, not 
dotted, coriaceous, with deciduous convolute stipules. 
I. MICHELIA. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 493; Gertn. fr. t. 137. 
Carpels arranged in a loose spike, of a consistence between leathery and - 
fleshy, 2-valved, opening from the apex downwards. Seeds several (38) 
externally fleshy.— Trees. Leaves entire, petioled. Flowers axillary, gene- 
rally fragrant, usually of a yellow colour. 
20. (1) M. Champaca (Linn.:) leaves lanceolate, acuminated, glabrous: - 
flowers on short peduncles: spatha of one leaf: anthers obtuse.— DC. prod — 
1. p. 79 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 643 ; Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p.656 ; Lam. ill. t. 493 ; Wall! 
L. n. 969 ; Wight! cat. n. 25.— Rheed, Mal. 1. t. 19 ; Rumph. Amb. 2. t. 67- 
