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have only 1 ovule ; but appai^ently it is a Manglietia and I put it into 

 tliis genus provisionally. The small rufous leaves, shining on the upper 

 surfaces, and small axillary flowers mark it as distinct from any other 

 1 lido- Malayan Magnoliad. 



3. MiCHELiA, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves as in Magnolia. Flowers axillary, solitary or termi- 

 nal. Sepals and petals similar, 9 to 15 or more, 3- or more-seriate. 

 Stamens as in Magnolia. Gynophore stalked. Carpels in a loose spike, 

 stigma decurrent ; ovules 2 or more. Fruit a lax or dense elongate 

 spike of coriaceous dorsal ly dehiscing carpels. Seeds of Magnolia. — 

 Distrib. About 15 species; temp, and trop. Mountains of India. 



1. M. Champaca, Linn. A tall tree, the branchlets pubescent. 

 Leaves membranous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, rather abruptly narrow^- 

 ed to the base, shining above, pale and glabrous or puberulous beneath ; 

 main nerves thin, 12 to 16 pairs ; length of blade 4*5 to 9 in. ; breadth 

 2*25 to 3*5 in. ; petiole 1 to 1*5 in. Floioers yellow, solitary, axillary or 

 terminal, shortly pedunculate ; buds narrowly ovoid, the stipular hood 

 silky. Sepals oblong. Petals about 15, narrowly oblong, 1 in. long. 

 Ripe fruit 3 to 6 in. long ; individual carpels ovoid, lenticellate, woody. 

 DC. Prodr. i, 79 ; Roxb. Fl. fnd. ii, 656 ; W. & A. Prod, i, 6; Wight 

 111. i, 13 ; Blume Fl. Jav., Magnol. t. 1 ; Bijdr. 7 ; H. f. & T. Fl. Ind. 79 ; 

 Hook. fil. Br. Ind. I, 42 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. ii, 36. M. 

 rujinervis, DC. 1. c. 79 ; Bl. Bijdr. 8. M. Boldsopa, Ham. ex DC. 1. c. ; 

 Don Prodr. 226; Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. t. 3. M. aurantiaca, Wall. Cat. ; 

 Plant. As. Bar. t. 147. M. Bheedii, Wight 111. i. 14, t. 5, f. 6. M. pub- 

 inertia, Bl. Fl. Jav., Magnol. p. 14, t. 4. 



In temperate forests in the Straits Settlements, but not common. 

 Distrib. India. 



2. M. MONTANA, Bl. in Verb. Bat. Gen. IX, p. 15.3. A glabrous tree. 



Leaves thinly coriaceous, shining, obovate or obovate-rotund, shortly and 



abruptly apiculate, rather suddenly narrowed to the base ; nerves JO to 12 



pairs, thin, spreading; length of blade 6-7*5 in., breadth about 4 in. ; 



petiole, slender, '75 in. Flowers white, 1*5 in. in diam., solitary, terminal 



or axillary, on annulate peduncles about '5 in. long. Buds cylindric. 



Sepals and petals about 8, oblanceolate or lanceolate. Pistils 3 to 4. 



Carpels usually single, sub-globular, 1*5 in. long, the walls lenticellate, 



woody, '5 in. or more thick. Bl. Bijdr. 7 ; Fl. Jav., Magnol. p. 15, t. 5 ; 



Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, Pt. ii, 17. 



Perak, at low elevations. Java, on the mountains. Distrib. Eastern 

 Himalaya. 



Specimens from the E. Himalaya have less obovate leaves, and i-ather 



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