474 ODOROGRAPHIA. 



very soft beneath ; umbellules simple ; sefrments of calyx acute, 

 shorter than the tube of the corolla. Native of Java, on Mount 

 Parang, in the province of Tjanjor. 



P. sanf/uinolcnta, Lindley, in Trans. Hort. Soc, vi., p. 72. Bot. 

 Mag., 2532. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, quite glabrous ; cymes 

 many-flowered, shorter than the leaves ; segments of corolla 

 acuminated, obtuse. Native of Sierra Leone. This plant is of a 

 trailing habit, and is full of a blood-coloured juice, which is used to 

 adulterate the " Drafions' blood " of commerce. 



Magnolia. 



The name is given in lionour of Pierre Magnol, who was a 

 professor of medicine, and died in 1715. The genus gives its 

 name to the Order Magnoliacecc, and consists for the most part of 

 large trees with fine foliage and handsome, fragraut flowers. 



The species of this Order are chiefly natives of mountainous 

 countries. They are probably more abundant in Western China, 

 in eastern continental India and in the Indian Archipelago, than 

 in any other part of the world. Many species occur in the more 

 humid parts of the temperate Himalaya, but one only extends as 

 far west as Kumaon. The western provinces of India produce 

 only two species, and Ceylon not more than one. From China 

 several extend to Japan. Xorth America, excluding Mexico, which 

 seems to contain several species of this family, produces eight 

 species. A few are natives of the AVest Indies and the mountainous 

 parts of tropical South America. In Africa they appear to be 

 entirely wanting. 



The plants of this family are all more or less aromatic, and their 

 flowers have often an extremely powerful perfume. The 

 Himalayan species are large trees, and yield valuable timl^er. The 

 baik of many of the American species possesses bitter and tonic 

 qualities, but none of those of India are known to do so. The 

 leaves of the various species of the Mar/ noli a strum, or True 

 Magnolia (D.C., Syst., i., p. 450 : Prod., i., p. 80), are alternate, 

 entire, deciduous or evergreen, rolled round in the bud, in which 

 state they are protected by the stipules, which originally adhere to 

 the sides of the leaf-stalks, l)ut ultimately fall off. The flowers are 

 large, terminal, protected in the young state l)y scales that seem to 



