Materials for a FJcna of the Malayan Peninsula. 369 



Carpophore sessile, carpels closely pacted. 



Fruit elongate, cylindric, ovules 2 ... 1. Mar/noUn. 

 ,, ovoid, ovules 6 ... ... 2. Mamjlietia. 



Carpophore stalked, carpels distant ... 3. Michelia. 



Carpels when ripe separating from the sessile 



carpophore and dehiscing ventrally ... 4. Taluuma. 



Tribe II. Winterioi. Flowers usually bisexual. Shrubs 



or small trees. Stipules 0. Carpels in one whorl 5. Illicium. 

 Tribe III. Schizandreoe. Flowers unisexual. Climb- 

 ing shrubs. Leaves exstipulate. 

 Carpels of fruit capitate ... ... ... Q. Kadsura. 



I. Magnolia, Linn. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves evergreen or deciduous ; buds enveloped 

 in the convolute stipules which are connate in pairs. Flowers large, 

 terminal. Sepals 3. Petals 6 to 12, 2- to 4-seriate. Stamens numerous, 

 many-seriate, filaments flat; anthers adnate, introrse. Gynophore 

 sessile. Carpels many, imbricated on a long axis, 2-ovule(;l, persistent ; 

 stigmas decurrent on the ventral suture. Fruit an elongated axis, with 

 persistent adnate 1-2-seeded dorsally dehiscing follicles. Seeds pendu- 

 lous from the carpels by a long cord ; outer walls of testa fleshy, 

 albumen oily. — Di.strib. Temp. N. America; temp, and trop. E. Asia and 

 Japan ; species about 16. 



M. MAiNGATt, King, n. sp. A tree. Toung branches and inflores- 

 cence den.sely clothed with pale shaggy hair. Leaves membranou.s, 

 oblanceolate-oblong or obovate, acuminate, narrowed to the rounded 

 base ; upper surface glabrous, the lower glaucous, the midrib sparsely 

 villous ; nerves 16 to 20 pairs ; length of blade 6 to 8 in., breadth 25 to 3 

 in., petiole "3 in. Flowers terminal, solitary, shortly pedunculate, buds 

 ovoid, the stipular hood villous like the pedicel. Sepals 3, oblong. 

 Petals about 6, of the same shape as the sepals but smaller, yellowish- 

 white, glabrous, 1 to r3 in. long. Ovaries villous., Ripe fruit cylin- 

 dric, 1*5 in. long by 6 in. diam. ; the individual carpels ovoid, not beaked, 

 •35 in. long, villous. 



Malacca, (Maingay No. 17). Perak, Penang ; in dense low forest up 

 to 2,500 feet. 



2. Manglietia, Blume. 



Trees ; foliage and inflorescence of Magnolia. Sepals 3. Petals 6 or 

 more, 2- or more-seriate. Stamens very numerous, many-seriate ; 

 anthers linear, adnate, iuti'orse. Gynophore sessile. Ovaries many, 

 cohering in an ovoid head ; stigma decuvreut on the ventral suture ; 



13 



