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as concave as that of the Cahjcanihea, and that these last have 

 always opposite leaves. But it may be said that the floral recep- 

 tacle of a Mafjnolia, if pushed down so that its organic apex would 

 be at tlie bottom of the cup thus formed, would become exactly that 

 of a CaJijcanthiis ; and long ago the striking resemblance of the 

 flowers of Chmonnnthus, those of Illicium and Schizatidra was re- 

 marked. The herbaceous Banunculacece may also recall the struc- 

 ture of the flower of J/r/y»o//(7, e.g., Mj/ost/rm ii\\({ the Crowfoots with 

 an elongated receptacle. In the eyes of several authors the order 

 MagnoliacecB have representatives among genera with unilocular 

 ovaries and parietal placentation. Such was Mayna, which is 

 now-a-days restored to the order Bixacece, and which presents 

 numerous affinities with the CanellecB. In this last series we find 

 genera with flowers closely analogous to those of some Samydece, and 

 one plant whose habit, foliage, inflorescence, and gamopetalous co- 

 rolla closely recall what is observed in Ehcnacea, which are moreover 

 closely allied to the neighbouring group, the Anonacece. Finally, 

 the EuptelecB include two genera of which it was at first possible to 

 place the one, Trochodendron, among the abnormal Araliacea, while 

 the other, Euptelea, presents more than one analogy, especially in its 

 diclinous flowers and samaroid carpels, with some of the Xanthoxy- 

 lacacece and Simarubea, like AUanihus-. 



Of about seventy-five species belonging to this order nearly three 

 quarters are found in the Old World. AU the Canellacea were 

 American, until the discovery of Cuniamosma. All the ScUzandrece, 

 on the contrary, except the species taken as the type of the genus 

 ScMzandra, are foreign to America. The only three known Euptelea 

 are Japanese. The species of Illicium are equally divided between 

 both Worlds. Lrimys is found in the whole of tropical and southern 

 America, and from Borneo and the north of Australia to New 

 Zealand. Among MagnoUece, Liriodendron is the only exclusively 

 American genus. The genus Magnolia is only represented in 

 America by the EumagnoUas and some Talaumas. Australia has no 

 Magnoliacea, except the section Tasmannia of Brimys. No represen- 

 tatives are known native in Europe and Africa.' Thus, of the 

 eleven genera we admit in this work, four are common to both 



Nor the adjncent islands." (R. Bh., Congo, 465.) 



