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MICHAUXIA 



MICONIA 



campanuloides, L'Her. Lvs. lanceolate in outline; 

 upper ones sessile, acute, almost clasping: calyx with 

 reflexed appendages shorter than the lobes; stamens 8. 

 Asia Minor. B.M. 219. G.C. III. 40:111. G.W. 11, p. 

 199; 15, p. 595. It grows 4-5 ft. high, has irregularly 

 toothed, bristly-hairy foliage and large curious 

 drooping fls., white, tinged with purple, wheel-shaped 

 at first, later the parts reflexed. The fl. is parted nearly 

 to the base into 8-40 oblong segms. lJ^-2 in. long. 

 This plant is a striking subject for the back of a hardy 

 border. It is easily prop, by seeds (which should be 

 fresh), and likes a well-enriched soil of a light character. 



Tchihatcheffii, Fisch. & Heldr. A stately plant, 6-7 

 ft., stout and erect, simple below: Ivs. 6-8 in. long, 

 spreading and deflexed, narrow-oblong, toothed or 

 serrate and sometimes lyrate: fls. white, in an erect 

 cylindric very densely fld. terminal spike; corolla-lobes 

 8, ovate-lanceolate, the margins fimbriate. Asia 

 Minor. B.M. 7742. Gn. 71, p. 625; 77, p. 486. G.M. 

 57:594. G. 36:22. G.W. 11, p. 198. Described as 

 biennial, and also as perennial if well cared for. 



WILHELM MILLER. 

 L. H. B.f 



MICHELIA (P. A. Micheli, 1679-1737, Florentine 

 botanist). Magnolidceas. Temperate and tropical 

 trees and shrubs, two of which (M. fuscata and M. 

 Champaca) are cultivated in the southern states for 

 their handsome magnolia-like foliage and red or pale 

 yellow fragrant flowers. 



Differs technically from Magnolia in the fls. mostly 

 axillary rather than terminal, the gynophore (stipe of 

 ovary) long and the ovules usually more than 2 in each 

 carpel: fls. mostly axillary, solitary; sepals and petals 

 similar, 9-15 or more, in 3 or more series; stamens as 

 in Magnolia; carpels in a loose spike; stigma decurrent; 

 ovules 2 or more: fr. a long, loose or crowded spike of 

 leathery carpels, which split down the back; seeds like 

 Magnolia. Species about a dozen, in Asia. 



Only one michelia has attained any prominence in 

 this country. This is M . fuscata, one of the most popu- 

 lar garden shrubs in the southern states. It is known as 

 the brown-flowered or banana shrub; also Magnolia 

 fuscata. It is shrubby in habit, attains a height of 10 

 to 15 feet and is perfectly hardy in the middle and lower 

 South. The shining young twigs and petioles are 

 covered with brown tomentum. The flowers are 1 to 

 1 % inches across, brownish yellow, edged with light 

 carmine, exhaling a strong banana fragrance. The 

 flowering period extends from the end of April until 

 June. Propagate by seeds as stated for Magnolia 

 grandiflora (p. 1965), but as seed is somewhat scarce, 

 the better method is from ripened wood cuttings, under 

 glass and with bottom heat. The cuttings should have 

 one or two leaves left, and be cut before very cold 

 weather. It is a very desirable conservatory shrub in 

 northern sections. (P. J. Berckmans.) 



A. Fls. pale yellow. 



Champaca, Linn. A tall tree native of the Himalayas, 

 with pubescent branchlets: Ivs. ovate-lanceolate, taper- 

 ing to a long point, 8-10 in. long, 2^-4 in. broad, 

 shining above, pale and glabrous or puberulous beneath; 

 petiole 1 Yi in. long: fls. 2 in. across; sepals oblong, acute; 

 petals linear: fr. 3-4 in. long. 



compressa, Sarg. (Magnolia compressa, Maxim.). 

 Tree, to 40 ft., with smooth dark bark: Ivs. oblong or 

 narrow-obovate, narrowing into long petioles, obtuse or 

 short-pointed, entire, coriaceous, lustrous above, 3-4 

 in. long: fls. fragrant, yellow, about 1 in. across; sepals 

 and petals narrow-obovate; anthers nearly sessile; 

 head of pistils stipitate: fr.-cone 2 in. long. Japan, a 

 northern species. G.F. 6:77. 



AA. Fls. brownish. 



fuscata, Blume (Magnolia fuscata, Andr.). Young 

 growths brown-pubescent: Ivs. elliptic-lanceolate or 



elliptic-oblong, smooth at maturity: fls. small, erect, 

 brown-purple, very fragrant; none of the sepals or 

 petals linear. China. B.M. 1008. L H. B.t 



MICHOLITZIA ("sent home by Micholitz when col- 

 lecting in India and Burma"). Asdepiadacese. A 

 genus founded in 1909 by N. E. Brown, allied to Mars- 

 denia but differing in the calyx-lobes being valvate and 

 the corona-lobes tubercle-formed and spreading. The 

 single species, M. obcordata, N. E. Br., from India, is 

 said to possess no horticultural value. It is a small 

 undershrub with milky juice, rather small obcordate or 

 obovate Ivs. and small fls. with olive-green tube and 

 reddish lobes. 



MICONIA (D. Micon, Spanish physician). Melasto- 

 macese. Glasshouse subjects, notable for the handsome 

 foliage. 



A Trop. American genus of trees and shrubs, with 

 large and showy opposite or verticillate strongly 

 veined Ivs.: fls. relatively small, usually corymbose or 



2370. Miconia magnifica. Known to the trade as 



Cyanophyllum magnificum. 



paniculate, white, rose, purple or yellow; petals 4-8, 

 rounded at the apex, spreading or reflexed; stamens 

 variable in number and shape, but usually 8-16, the 

 anthers polymorphous: fr. a dry or leathery berry, 

 2-5-loculed, and few- or many-seeded. Cogniaux 

 (DC. Monogr. Phaner. 7) admits 518 species to this 

 genus, including the plants known to the trade as 

 Cyanophyllum. Krasser (Engler & Prantl, 111:7) re- 

 duces the group to a subgenus or section of Tamonea 

 (but subsequently restored), the latter genus compris- 

 ing at that time (1898) about 550 species in Trop. 

 Amer. Many species have been described recently. 

 The most popular of the greenhouse plants, Cyano- 

 phyllum magnificum, is placed by Cogniaux among 

 the species that are imperfectly known and is not 

 described in the monograph, although it was illustrated 

 and described as long ago as 1859. See Tamonea. 



The miconias of gardeners are conservatory or warm- 

 house subjects, grown for their large and striking foli- 

 age. They belong to the old genus Cyanophyllum, in 

 which the anthers are subulate and incurved and with 

 a single pore, the flowers large and the calyx oblong 



