(16) TEXTAMEX FLOR.E LUTCHUENSlS. 283 



DiSTRiB. Endemic. 



A glabrous tree. Brniiclies slender, cyliudrical. Leaves 

 alternate, coriaceous, oblong-elliptical, dh-loh cm. long, 2^-35 cm. 

 wide, shining above, margin enlire, attenuate at the both ends ; 

 petlole 1-1 2 cm. long. Flowers terminal, about 1 cm. diam. 

 Peduncle 1-flowered, cylindrical, slender, fleshy, l3-2 cm. long. 

 Petals rotnndate-ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, ciliate. 



In the Shitsumon Honzo, Gwaihen, IV, t. 24, there is an 

 illustration of a sjDecies of Illicium. 



Michelia, L. 



M. COmpressa, Maxim. in Mel. Biol. VIII (1872) p. o06 



(sub Magnolia) ', Franch. et Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. I, p. 15; 

 Keisuke Ito et Hika Kaku, Ic. et Descr. PI. Hort. Koishikawa, 

 I, t. 18 ; Henry, List PI. Formos. p. 16. 



I^'SULA Utciiina [Jlatsumura, 1897, steril.) tractu Kun- 



djan in montosis {Tashiro\ April. 1887, flor). 

 DiSTRiB. Japan and Formosa. 



Tlie leaves of a sterile branch collected by Matsumura are 

 uncommonly large, obovate-oblong, 14 ^ cm. long, 6 cm. wide, 

 obtuse-mucronate or obtuse, rusty-tomentose below wlieu young, 

 but soon become glabrous. At first it seemed a distinct species, 

 but after consideration we concluded it to be simply an abnormal 

 form of 31. compressa, (Maxim.). 



Magnolia, L. 



-M. pumila, Andr. '* Bot. Bepos. t. 226"; Bot. Mag. t. 

 977 ; HC. Syst. I, p. 458, et Prodr. I, p. 81 ; " Hauce, Advers. 



