Order 2. Diileniacea. 7 



The calyx is eaten, and the fruit used as food for cattle. I 

 rather think that this tree is sometimes by English people called the 

 Magnolia. 



2. D. pentagyna. A fine tree with leaves upwards of two 

 feet long, oblong lanceolate, serrate ; flowers on the branches, 

 showy, yellow, but very much smaller than the last; fruit 

 iiesh-coloured, lobed like the last, looking like bunches of 

 cherries. Karmal, Karambal 



Konkan, S. Ghauts, and S. Maratfca country, not common. Forests 

 throughout India (flT.). Very noticeable for its 



"Large foliage, overshadowing golden flowers." Cowper. 

 They are the largest simple leaves that I know, except perhaps 

 those of the teak tree, and are sold in bundles for chuppers. 



ORDER 3. MAGNOLIACE.E. The Magnolia Family. 



Trees or shrubs often aromatic ; leaves alternate, sepals and 

 petals arranged in whorls of 3, very deciduous, stamens and 

 carpels indefinite ; fruit of numerous carpels, more or less 

 distinct. 



A small order, but distinguished for beauty and fragrance. In 

 England the Magnolia, M. grandijlora, and the tulip tree, Liriodendron 

 tuUpifera, natives of N. America, are well known in gardens. 



The only species of this order known in W. India is wild in the 

 Himalayas and Nilghiris, but not with us. 



MICHELIA. Trees; leaf buds enclosed in the twisted stipules, 

 sepals and petals similar ; fruit an elongated spike of carpels. 



M. champaca. A fine tree with long, oval, pointed, waved 

 leaves, shining above; sepals and petals 15 to 20, flowers 

 yellow very fragrant ; carpels roundish, oval sessile, many 

 together at the end of a swollen stalk. Pila champa, champaka. 



Commonly cultivated. The flowers are used by women to orna- 

 ment their hair, and are offered in temples. 

 "The champak odours fail, 



Like sweet thoughts in a dream." Shelley. 



" The pale yellow flowers have the sweet oppressive perfume 

 which is celebrated in the poetry of the Hindus. From the wood of 

 the champak the images of Buddha are carved for the temples." 

 Tennant's " Ceylon." 



ORDER 4. ANONACE^l. The Custard Apple Family. 



Trees and shrubs, often climbing and aromatic, leaves alter- 

 nate, simple, entire, without stipules, sepals 3, petals 3 to 6 in 



