10 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
arrangement of the parts of the flower when few, and by their number when the quinary occurs, 
also by their spicate, not verticelled ovaries: from anonacee, to which they perhaps even more 
nearly approach, by their stipules, and solid, not ruminated, albumen. 
Essentiat Cuaracter. Polypetalous ; polyandrous ; ovary wholly superior ; carpels more 
or less distinct, leaves furnished with stipules: without transparent dots.* 
GerocrapuicaL Distripution. The species of this order are nearly confined to America 
and Asia, two or three only having as yet been found in Australia ; and none in Africa or Europe. 
In North America they are most abundant, the woods, swamps, and sides of hills of that coun- 
try, abounding in species. In India they have a very wide range; extending from the southern 
provinces of Ceylon and the Peninsula, up to the Himalayas, some of the largest species of the 
order being natives of the valley of Nepal and neighbouring mountains, while others extend- 
ing eastward towards China and Japan, ascend as high as the 40° of N. latitude. The species 
and genera however met with at the extremities of this range differ, Michelia being almost 
the only genus found to the southward, while Sphenocarpus and Manglietia are conspicuous 
in the north. There however, several fine species of Michelia are also found, four of which 
have been figured by Dr. Wallich in his Tentanum Flor. Nepalensis, and one in his Plant. Asiat. 
rariores. Of the known species of the order 14 are enumerated in Wallich’s list of Indian plants. 
Blume has given characters of 11 in his Bijdragen, to these may now be added one from Mala- 
bar, one from the Neelgherries, figured by Zenker, the accompanying from the Pulney range 
of mountains, and three others, of which I possess specimens from the more elevated regions of 
Ceylon, making up the total number of Asiatic species yet known to about 30, four of which are 
either indigenous or naturalized in the Peninsula: two of these, are only met with on the highest 
hills ; the third, M. Rheedii equally on hills, and on the plains of Malabar; while Michelia Cham- 
paca, a doubtful native, is cultivated on the plains on account of its fragrant flowers. This predi- 
fais of the species for the hills is equally observed in most of the other Indian ones ; 
acm} HO} ‘ h in Britain and on th continent, as it is 
one easily made, and considering the unrivalled skill and facilities possessed in Europe for 
conducting such experiments, very likely to succeed. : 
Me : | annin and gellic acid; that of th t of 
M. glauca according to Barton is an important tonins Ye os 3 e roo 
: ; | -_ In this countr o li 
to have found their way into the Materia medi ip oe cde prgetio ya 
are mentioned by either Roxburgh or Ainsley as being empl . ap 
(Hort. Mal.) in his account of Michelia Ch Seedy ep oyed in medicine, though Rheede 
| _ * The order Winteriacee is only distinguished 
rit seieweng rise gira ai combined with Magnoliacee. It is now said, that what all writers have 
of the order has yet been found j nah pi of Magnoliacee, should be applied to Winteriacee ci 
ct a austiy pemcinea wi hi: pepe Proper, but L/icium Anisatum is a native of hina, whence the lodinn 
miamatis éatinigniten ‘gesioertien ot pry sine mows ee , as the name imports, both the fragrance and 
scarcely, if at all distinguishable from that € seed; and like it, Png to distillation 
