4 ii. MAGNOLIACE.E. [Michelia. 



Cultivated in the outer Himalaya as far as the Ravi (up to 3000 ft., at Al 

 morah to 5400 ft.), occasionally in Bandelkhand and the O.P. ; on Mt. Aboo, 

 commonly in Bengal and South India (3000-5000 ft.) Evergreen. Flowers ap- 

 pear at various seasons, chiefly about May ; seeds ripen in Nov. and Dec. 



A handsome tree, in favourable localities from 60 to 100 ft. high, with a 

 straight trunk 7 to 9 ft. in girth, branches ascending and spreading, forming a 

 close, shady, oval head. Bark of younger branchlets with callous whitish points 

 on a yellowish ground, of the trunk and older branches about \ inch thick, 

 inside greyish or reddish brown, outside light cinereous. Sapwood whitish, 

 heartwood glossy, olive or dark brown, often beautifully mottled, coarse-grained, 

 brittle, with numerous fine medullary rays, more than 30 in the quarter- inch, 

 and distinct annual rings ; prized for furniture, polishes well ; used in Kamaon 

 and Nepal for housebuilding, in the Penins. for carriage-work, verandah posts, 

 and made into drums. Planted at Hindoo shrines ; flowers prized on account 

 of their sweet scent. 



Order III. ANONACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate, simple, entire, exstipulate leaves. 

 Flowers bisexual, rarely unisexual. Sepals 3, free or connate, usually 

 valvate. Petals 6, hypogynous, biseriate, usually valvate in the following 

 genera, the 3 inner sometimes wanting ; deciduous. Stamens numerous ; 

 filaments short or none ; anthers adnate, 2-celled, commonly extrorse. 

 Ovaries usually numerous, 1 -celled ; style short or stigma sessile. Fruit 

 of one or more 1- or many-seeded carpels, dry or succulent, often stalked, 

 rarely united into a fleshy fruit (Anona). Seeds large, with a ruminate 

 albumen ; embryo small. Gen. Plant, i. 20 ; Royle 111. 59 ; Wight 111. 

 i. 15. 



Petals not conform to sepals. 



Ripe carpels distinct, one-seeded 1. Polyalthia. 



Ripe carpels confluent into a succulent many-seeded fruit 2. Anona. 

 Outer petals conform with the sepals ; carpels 1- many-seeded. 



Inner petals flat ; ovules 1-4 3. Miliusa. 



Inner petals saccate at base ; ovules numerous ... 4. Saccopetalum. 



1. POLYALTHIA, Blume. 



Flowers usually bisexual. Sepals 3, short. Petals 6, longer than 

 sepals. Stamens indefinite, short, cuneate, closely crowded on a convex 

 torus, anther-cells concealed by the overlapping connectives. Ovaries 

 numerous, terminating in short thick styles ; ovules 1-2. Fruit consist- 

 ing of one or numerous one-seeded carpels, dry or fleshy, on long stalks, 

 inserted on the pubescent or tomentose torus. 



Glabrous ; leaves lanceolate, acuminate ; flowers fascicled, petals 



equal . . . .LP. longifolia. 



Pubescent ; leaves oblong, obtuse or acute ; flowers solitary; petals 



unequal, pubescent ; stalks twice the length of berries . 2. P. suberosa. 



Pubescent ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate ; flowers solitary 

 or 2-3 ; petals equal, thick, glabrous ; stalks more than twice 

 the length of berries 3. P. cerasoides. 



1. P. longifolia, Benth. & H. f . ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 62 ; Bedd. Fl. 



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