i8 III. MAGNOLiACEiE. [Aromadendfum . 



coriaceous, 3 to 4 in. long, i to 1-5 in. wide. Flowers 2 in. long, 

 fragrant. Sepals lanceolate glabrous narrow acuminate. Petals 

 linear acuminate white. Fruit 3 in. long, obovoid, apex rounded, 

 base narrowed, fleshy smooth green outside, white inside ; seeds 

 pink. Hah. Dense forest. Probably not rare, though seldom col- 

 lected. Singapore, Garden Jungle. Malacca, Selandor road (Derry). 

 Penang on Government Hill (Curtis). Distrih. Java. Native tiame : 

 Chempaka hutan. 



Order IV. WINTERACE^. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, often aromatic, gland-dotted 

 exstipulate. Flowers small, pink or white in axillary fascicles. 

 Sepals I (or 2) series. Petals in several series. Stamens several, 

 anthers small, sub-globose. Carpels in i whorl, few. Fruits 

 capsular. Seeds shiny, endosperm copious, embryo minute. Species 

 about 35, Australia, Malay Isles, S. America to Florida. 



ILLICIUM, L. 



Shrubs or treelets. Leaves usually small coriaceous or mem- 

 branous entire. Flowers bi- or uni-sexual, solitary or fascicled in 

 the axils, or on the stem, yellow, white or rose-pink, small. Sepals 

 3 to 6. Petals 9, 3 or many seriate. Stamens indefinite ; filaments 

 thick; anthers introrse. Pistils indefinite in i whorl, i-ovuled. 

 Fruit of radiating leathery green follicles. Seeds compressed with 

 hard shining testa. North America, China, Cambodia. 



Leaves thin coriaceous distinctly nerved. 



Stamens Q to 13 (i) I. cambodianum 



Leaves thick coriaceous nerveless. 



Stamens 30 to 50 . . . . . • (2) I. evenium 



(i) I. csiinbodianuni Hance, Journ. Bot. 1876, p. 240 ; Pierre, Fl. 

 For. Cochinchine, i. pi. 4; King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. I.e. 374; 

 Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. iii. (2), 200, -pi. 38B. 



A large shrub, very variable. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 

 3 or 4, dark green oblanceolate to obovate-lanceolate-acuminate, 

 3 to 4-5 in. long, i to 2 in. wide ; petioles under -5 in. long. Flowers 

 axillary or in old plants fascicled on the stem, rose colour or white, 

 I in. across or less ; pedicels stout or slender. Sepals 3 or 4, ovate 

 round edge ciliate or not. Petals 9, ovate-oblong blunt. Stamens 

 9 to 13 in a single row. Folhcles 8 to 12, radiate beaked, -4 to -5 in. 

 long. Seeds flat ovoid, base truncate, polished brown. Hah. In 

 woods on mountains, especially near streams from 3000 to 5000 ft. 

 altitude. Common and variable. 



var. tenuifolia Ridl. Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate thin 

 almost membranous ; pedicels very slender. Flowers small -5 in. 



