1709 



* TALAtJMA Candollii. 

 De Candolles Talcmm Tree. 



POLYANDRIA POLYGY}^IA. 



Nat. ord. Magnoliace^. Juss. {Introduction to the Natural System 

 of Botany, p. 24.) 



TALAUMA Juss, Petala 9-15, ordine ternario serlalia. Stamina 

 numerosa, antheris anticis. Ovaria plura, coadunata, biovulata. Fructus 

 coadunatione unicus, strobiliformis, lignosus, irregularlter dehiscens, semlnibus 

 1-2 pendulis, in foveolis receptaculi centralis cylindraceo-elongati dehiscentia 

 liberi. Blume Flora Javce Magnol. p. 29. 



T. Candollii ; foliis oblongis utrinque acuminatis glabris, floribus 9-12-petalis, 

 petalis exterioribus calycinis reliquis triente brevioribus. Bl. I. c. t. 9. 



Magnolia odoratissima. Reinwdt. 



A native of Java, where it is found growing in thickets 

 to the height of about 15 feet, and perfuming the air with 

 so delicious an odour that the very Javanese think it worth 

 the pains of cultivation. 



Its flowers open very unwillingly in the stove. Dr. Blume 

 has represented them closed, as they commonly appear ; but 

 we were so fortunate as to be able to sketch the plant with 

 its flowers fully expanded, just as they were about to drop 

 off". At first they are a pale lemon colour, but they change 

 to a sort of buff", in which state we have represented them. 



It is a tender stove plant, increased only by inarching 

 upon Magnolia pumila, which Dr. Blume has ascertained 

 to be also a Talauma, or by layers, or by having a pot of 

 earth fastened round a wounded branch. It flowers in 

 February and March. 



* The vernacular name of the South American species. 

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