MAGNOLIACE^. 



yellowish green, marked with an irregular indented crescent of bright 

 orange on both sides towards the base. Stamens numerous, with long 

 linear anthers opening outwardly, and short filaments. Pistil a large, 

 conical, acute body, its upper half covered with minute, blackish, 

 recurved stigmas; its lower furrowed, being amass of coalescing styles 

 and ovaries. Fruit a cone of imbricated seed vessels, which are woody 

 and solid, their upper portion formed by the long lanceolate style. 

 Seeds 2, blackish, ovate, one or both often abortive. — Bark very 

 bitter and strongly aromatic, acting as a stimulating tonic and diapho- 

 retic. Chiefly used in intermittents, and as a warm sudorific in chronic 

 rheumatism. 



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