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OX SEEDLINGS 



Fifth pair oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the last 

 because on the tip of the shoot, which has finished growth for a 

 season. 



Ultimate leaves ovate, acuminate, entire, scabrous. 



MAGXOLIACE.E. 



Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. i. 16. 



The Magnoliaceae are trees or shrubs. The leaves are 

 simple and entire or dentate, with an ascending, incurved, 

 penninerved, and reticulate venation. They are leathery and 

 evergreen, or membranous and deciduous, and often have 

 aromatic oil glands. The seeds of Drimys and Elicium have 

 a shining black testa. In Magnolia they 

 are drupe-like, with the outer coat fleshy 

 and the inner one crustaceous. When 

 the follicles containing them dehisce, 

 they do so along the dorsal suture in 

 Magnolia, Manglietia, and Michelia, 

 allowing the seeds to drop out, sus- 

 pended by a long, filiform funicle. The 

 seeds are generally fairly large, and 

 contain a copious, oily endosperm. 

 The embryo is small or minute with 

 diverging cotyledons. In the Tulip- 

 tree (Liriodendron) the seed is con- 

 FIO. 138 Drimys Wmten, tained in a persistent samaroid carpel. 

 The cotyledons of Drimys Winteri 



(fig. 138) are oblong, ovate, obtuse, obscurely trinerved and 

 reticulate, punctate with pellucid glands, and rather persistent. 

 The seedlings are of slow growth. The first leaf is several 

 times smaller than the cotyledons ; and the succeeding two 

 are roundish or ovate, and nearly the size of the latter. 



Drimys Winteri, Forst. (fig. 138). 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, glabrous, pale green, 11-14 mm. long. 

 Cotyledons oblong-ovate, obtuse, entire, shortly petiolate, gla- 

 brous, bright green above, glaucous beneath, with pellucid glandular 



