MAGNOLIACEi©. 9 



hard curved beak, and spines perhaps 1/20 inch long on 



the flat sides, t. 7. 



In gardens and under hedges in Ootacamund, not indigenous. 



Gen. Dist. A weed of cultivation, native of temperate America and 

 Europe, but not England. 



MAGNOLIACE/E. f.b.i. 3. 



The Magnolic82 (the greater number of the family) 

 are trees with alternate simple leaves and large hood-like 

 stipules which cover the buds and are pushed off as each 

 expands, leaving scars round the axis. (The only other 

 trees with such stipules are the Figs or Banyans and 

 their allies, but they are quite different and are distin- 

 guished further by having a glutinous milk-white juice.) 

 The flowers are large, of nine, twelve or fifteen sepals 

 and petals ; numerous slender stamens ; and a number of 

 carpels arranged spirally on a convex or tall centre. 

 This central torus may grow enormously and become a 

 stalk 3 to 4 inches long, on which the carpels, now % inch 

 or more thick, look very much like the separate fruits of 

 as many distinct flowers. 



The family is a comparatively small one of about ten genera 

 and seventy species, and has its home on the western shores of 

 the Atlantic and Pacific, — from Virginia to Lousiana and again 

 in Japan and Eastern Siberia extending across China to the 

 Himalayas (see map on page lo). There appears to be only one 

 species native to these hill-tops, but the American Tulip-tree 

 or Lyre-tree, liriodendron, has been planted near Lovedale. 



Named magnolia /;; hotiour of Pierre Magnol^ a Professor of Medi- 

 cine at Montpellier {b. 1638). The anojnalous genera outside the tribe 

 MAGNOLIE/E are by some placed in another family. 



MICHELIA. F.B.I. 3 VI. 



Flowers large and bisexual ; anthers opening in- 

 wards ; torus stalked below the carpels (distinction from 

 magnolia) ; ripe carpels opening widely to let out the 



