MAGNOLIACEJE. 



yellowish green, marked with an irregular indented crescent of bright 

 orange on both sides towards the base. Stamens numerous, with long 

 linear anthers opening outwardly, and short filaments. Pistil a large, 

 conical, acute body, its upper half covered with minute, biackish, 

 recurved stigmas ; its lower furrowed, being a mass of coalescing styles 

 and ovaries. Fruit a cone of imbricated seed vessels, which are woody 

 and solid, their upper portion formed by the long lanceolate style. 

 Seeds 2, blackish, ovate, one or both often abortive. Bark very 

 bitter and strongly aromatic, acting as a stimulating tonic and diapho- 

 retic. Chiefly used in intermittents, and as a warm sudorific in chronic 

 rheumatism. 



