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with alternate, entire, stipulate leaves, and large, axillary, 

 sweet-scented, yellow flowers. 



Observe the large convolvute, deciduous stipules, which 

 sheath the leaf-buds : the tendency to an arrangement of 

 the sepals and petals in threes, less evident in the Champaca 

 than in some other Magnolias : the carpels of Champaca 

 arranged upon a long receptacle, three to four inches in 

 length when in fruit, and raised by a short stalk above the 

 envelopes of the flower : the fruit-carpels sphtting dorsally 

 when ripe ; the seeds pendulous, by a thread-like funicle, 

 after dehiscence of the carpels : the 

 carpels of Talamna^ dehiscing by 

 the ventral suture and falling away 

 from the axis, leaving the ripe seeds 

 suspended to it 



Compare the axillary flowers of 

 the Champaca with the terminal 

 flowers of the true Magnolias. 



A species of Star Anise {IlHmim), 

 growing in the Khasia mountains, 

 represents a section of the Family, differing from the type 



Fig. 99. Star Anise [Illicium). 

 I'lie fruit apocarpous. Car- 

 pels uniseriate, dehiscing by 

 their ventral sutures. 



