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in cross section. The perforations of the vessels in the family 
(when present) are scalariform with very numerous bars, much 
more numerous than in the true Magnoliaceae (see Solereder, 
System. Anat. Dicot. engl. ed. i. 31 (1908). 
occurring in few genera and species.—Leaves 
subverticillate (in threes) in Drimys rosea, Ridl. (New Guinea). 
Inflorescence a single terminal sessile flower in Zygogynum 
Vieillardii, Baill. (New Caledonia); of three simple terminal 
pedicels i in Exospermum and Zygogynum spp.; of several pedicels 
in Drimys spp.; a terminal cluster of cymes in Bubbia and 
Drimys spp.; pedicels narrowly winged in Drimys parviflora, 
Ridl. Calyx completely closed in bud in Drimys; imbricate in 
Illictum. Carpels united in tribe Haxospermeae; capsular, 
beaked and stellate in Illicium; reduced to one in Drimys 
dipetala, F. Muell., and Zaygoaynum pomiferum, Baill. 
Genera 7; Species 6 2. 
DistrrsuTion.—Eastern India to Japan and New Zealand, 
Florida, Central and South America. 
Key TO GENERA. 
Sepals imbricate; carpels free from one 
another, spreading, compressed laterally 
and fang: —— in fruit Tribe J. ItticEar. 
nly gen - 1. Ilicium. ~ 
Sepals valvate Ganpels more or i erect : 
C. s free, especially in fruit - Tribe IJ. Drmvypzaz. 
Calyx enclosing the petals in bud and 
at length rupturing 2. Drimys. — 
Calyx exposing the petals in idk aapil 
and more of less cup-like : 
Flowers pohiney and prillegt eines 
5 
Flowers in a teernitial duster ol many- 
flowered cymes; petals 10-14: 
Inner series of petals 4-6; stamens 
with two widely divergent 
anther-cells  - 4, Bubbia. 
Inner petals 10; stamens with 
linear and parallel ipo Soeur 
anther cells - 5. Belliolum. 
Bont pat more or less united, especially 
in Tribe III. ExospeRMEAE. 
Ontnels 7-8, with conspicuous 
grooves between them in fruit, 
partially united 6. Exospermum. ~ 
Carpels 1-4, closely anita, bach 
separated by a very thin wall 7. Zygogynum, 
1. Mlicium, Linn. Syst. ed. x. 1050 (1759).—About 20 species, 
in ito Malena, China, Japan, Florida (see map). Type species : 
Illicium anisatum, Linn., Japan and China.—Benth. & Hook. 
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