Dillenia.] I. DILLENIACEiE. 3 



nent ; when young, softly hairy or rufous silky on both sides ; when old, 

 glabrous above and pubescent beneath. Flowers before the leaves, soli- 

 tary, at the end of short lateral branchlets, with ovate bracts at base of 

 peduncle, 2-3 in. across. Sepals oblong, obtuse, concave, fleshy, with 

 thin ciliated margins, at last reflexed, with long silky hairs on the back. 

 Petals yellow, obovate from a narrow base. Stamens numerous, the inner 

 longer spreading or recurved. Ovaries 6-12. Fruit on thick pilose pe- 

 duncle, enclosed by fleshy calyx, size of a small apple. Seeds several, 

 glabrous in a viscid pulp. 



Northern Oudh forests ; Burma. Sheds its leaves in February ; the new 

 foliage begins to show in April, generally after the numerous fine golden 

 flowers. 



A small tree in Oudh, rarely over 2 ft. girth, and 20 ft. high ; in Burma a 

 large handsome tree. Bark of trunk about \ inch thick, reddish, compact, in- 

 ternally viscid, externally whitish, ashy, or brown, quasi tesselated by longi- 

 tudinal and transverse cracks into subquadrangular scales, which eventually 

 exfoliate. Heart- and sap-wood not distinct, close and hard. Weight, 45 lb. 



Order II. MAGNOLIACE-ffi. 



Trees or shrubs, often aromatic, with convolute deciduous stipules and 

 alternate leaves. Flowers often large, trimerous. Sepals and petals usually 

 similar, in 2-7 whorls of 3, imbricate, deciduous. Stamens numerous, free, 

 inserted on the torus ; anther-cells adnate to connective. Ovaries numer- 

 ous, often spirally arranged on the elongated torus. Ovules 2 or more 

 on the ventral suture. Seeds with an abundant albumen, and minute 

 embryo. Gen. Plant, i. 16 ; Eoyle 111. 58 "Wight 111. i. 9. 



1. MICHELIA, Linn. 



Trees with shining leaves ; buds enveloped in the convolute stipules. 

 Flowers bisexual. Sepals and petals conform, 9 or more, in 3 or more 

 series. Gynophore stalked. Filaments flat. Anthers introrsely adnate. 

 Carpels numerous, spirally arranged on an elongated conical torus, each 

 with 3 or more ovules. Fruit a loose spike of coriaceous, 2-valved, 1-12 

 seeded carpels ; seeds with a fleshy outer testa. 



1. M. champaca, Linn. Tab. I Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 656 j W. & A. 

 Prodr. 6 ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 42. Syn. M. aurantiaca, Wall. PI. As. Ear. 

 t. 147. M. Doltsopa, Ham. j Wall. Tent. Fl. Nep. t. 3. Sans. Cham- 

 paka. Vern. Chamba, Champa. 



Leaves petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 8-10 in. long, strongly 

 reticulated, shining and glabrous above, pallid, more or less pubescent 

 beneath when young, glabrate afterwards. Flowers axillary, each with 

 a deciduous, coriaceous, cinereous bract. Sepals and petals 15-20, 

 the outer obovate, the inner narrow-linear, yellow or orange, with dark 

 longitudinal veins. Capsules sessile on an elongated stalk, orbicular or 

 broadly oval, opening on the back in two thick valves, dark-coloured, with 

 large white round specks. Seeds 1-12, oval, compressed, brown, about 

 the size of a small pea. 



