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MAGNOLIACEAE. 
. Leaf-sears U-shaped. (4). M. acuminata. 
Leaf-scars broadly crescent-shaped. 7. 
. End-bud slender: glabrous. M. salicifolia. 
End-bud mostly enlarged: hairy. 8. 
. Low shrub: twigs slender, brown. M. stellata. 
Large shrubs or small trees. 9. 
. Twigs green, slender. (Purple magnolia). M. lilifiora. 
Twigs brown, dotted with white lenticels. 10. 
Pubescence of buds rather short. << M. Soulangeana. 
Flower-buds with long coarse hairs. (5). M. Kobus. 
MIcHELIA. Banana Shrub. 
(Family Magnoliaceae). 
Shrubs: evergreen. Twigs 
rather slender, subterete: pith 
rather small, round, white, con- 
tinuous, with firmer sometimes 
brownish diaphragms at intervals. 
Buds solitary, ovoid-oblong, ses- 
sile, with a single scale. Leaf- 
sears alternate, 2-ranked, small, 
half-round, slightly raised: 
bundle-traces about 5 in a single 
series, or less definitely fixed if 
more numerous: stipule-scars lin- 
ear, encircling the twig, but 
usually concealed by pubescence. 
Leaves oblanceolate-obovate, blunt- 
ly mucronate, entire, veiny be- 
neath. 
Though now considered to be 
a distinct genus, Michelia has been 
placed in Magnolia by many 
writers, and the banana shrub is 
still commonly spoken of as a species of Magnolia. 
Twigs and buds very golden-rusty. M. fuscata. 
