136 MAGNOLIACEAE. 



Family 3. MAGNOLIACEAE J. St. Hil. 



Magnolia Family. 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate leaves, large solitary flowers, and bitter 

 aromatic bark. Sepals and petals hypogynoiis, deciduous. Stamens oo ; 

 anthers adnate. Carpels ^, separate or coherent, borne on the surface of 

 the elongated receptacle, ripening into an aggregate fruit composed of 1-2- 

 seeded follicles or achenes. About 10 genera and 75 species, of wide dis- 

 tribution, none native in Bermuda. 



Magnolia grandiflora L., Bull Bay, North American, a large evergreen 

 tree, with broad leaves 4'-12' long, dark green above, brown-tomentose beneath, 

 the creamy-white lemon-scented flowers 4-8' broad^ is occasionally seen on 

 lawns and about houses, growing well. Lefroy records that two other Magnolias 

 were grown at Mount Langton in 1875, but died out. 



Liriodendron Tulipifera L. Tulip-tree, North American, was grown at 

 Par-la-Yille, Hamilton, prior to 1879, flowering in June, according to Lefroy, 

 and mentioned by Verrill; its broad truncate or notched leaves are peculiar and 

 characteristic, its greenish yellow flowers about 2' high. Mahoe (Pariti 

 tiliaceum) is now called Tulip-tree in Bermuda. A recent attempt to grow 

 Liriodendron near Bailey's Bay met with failure. 



Michelia fuscata (Andr.) Blume, Velvety Michelia, Chinese, a shrub, 

 up to about 15° high, with densely brown-tomentose twigs, its elliptic, entire 

 leaves pointed at both ends, 2'-4' long, short-petioled, was seen at Cedar Lodge 

 in 1914. The fragrant flowers of this shrub are about 1' broad, the yellowish 

 petals tinged with red, the carpels loosely spicate. [Magnolia fuscata Andr.] 



Family 4. ANNONACEAE DC. 



Custard-apple Family. 



Trees or shrubs, generally aromatic, with alternate entire leaves. 

 Stipules none. Sepals 3 (rarely 2), valvato or rarely imbricate. Petals 

 about 6, arranged in 2 series. Stamens °o j anthers adnate, extrorse. 

 Carpels ^, separate or coherent, mainly fleshy in fruit. Seeds large, ana- 

 tropous; embryo minute; endosperm copious, wrinkled. About 46 genera 

 and 550 species, mostly in the tropics, a few in the temperate zones. None 

 are native in Bermuda. 



1. ANNONA L. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves persistent, entire, leathery. Flowers perfect, 

 white or yellow, solitary, clustered or rarely racemose. Sepals 3, valvate, con- 

 cave, somewhat united, deciduous. Petals mostly 6, valvate, fleshy, concave, 

 converging, 3-angled at the apex, the outer ones larger, the inner sometimes 

 wanting. Receptacle hemispheric. Anther-sacs contiguous, united to the back 

 of the filament, surmounted by the truncate, sometimes glandular tip of the 

 connective. Carpels numerous, on the top of the receptacle. Ovaries prolonged 

 into a nearly sessile stigma. Ovule solitary, erect. Fruit compound, many- 

 celled. Seeds flattened, with a brown leathery-crustaeeous testa, enclosed in an 

 aril. [Name said to be derived from the Malayan.] 



Annona muricata L., Sour-sop, West Indian, has oblong smooth leaves, 

 the flower with 6 nearly equal greenish-yellow petals; the ovoid fruit is 6' to 



