MAGNOLIACEAE. — MAGNOLIA 399 



and is one of the noblest of its family. We have a vivid recollection of seeing in 

 June 1903 at Yin-kou, a hamlet 6 miles west of Wa-shan, a tree of this species 

 which was more than 25 m. tall, with a trunk 3 m. in girth, 2 m. from the ground, and 

 clean for 5 m. where the branches commenced. The branches were very numerous, 

 wide-spreading, forming a massive head, flattened oval in contour. In 190S a 

 special journey for the purpose of photographing this tree was undertaken but it 

 had been cut down. This was the largest specimen we ever met with, but ex- 

 amples 15-20 m. tall, 2-2.75 m. in girth are (or were in 1908) fairly common west 

 of Wa-shan. The Chinese informed us that the flowers were rosy-red to rose-pink 

 in color and about 8 inches across. From the size of the peduncles and of the 

 scars left by the fallen sepals and petals there is good reason to believe that the 

 size of the flowers must be very large; and undoubtedly this new Magnolia vies 

 with M. Cavipbellii Hooker & Thomson in beauty. It is in cultivation in the 

 Arnold Arboretum. A colloquial name for this tree is " Yin-chin-hwa " and the 

 bark like that of the Yulan, is esteemed as a drug, being known as " Wu-p'i " or 

 more rarely " Hsin-p'i." 



For geographical reasons it is possible that the specimen referred to as Mag- 

 nolia sp.? by Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, VIII. 193 {PI. David. 



II. 11) which is presumably the same as that named M. conspicua, var. emarginaia 

 by Finet & Gagnepain {Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LII. Mem. IV. 38), belongs here. 

 But from the meagre description, largely founded on a statement of I'Abbe David, 

 it is quite impossible to determine the point. 



A picture of this tree will be found under No. 351 of the collection of Wilson's 

 photographs and also in his Vegetation oj Western China, No. 305. 



Magnolia Sargentiana, var. robusta Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 



A typo recedit foliis longioribus et angustioribus oblongo-obovatis 

 14-21 cm. longis et 6-8.5 cm. latis, fructu majore 12-18 cm. longo, 

 carpellis utrinque breviter rostratis 15-18 mm. longis. 



Western Szech'uan: Wa-shan, woodlands and open country, 

 alt. 2300 m., September 1908 (No. 923^; tree 12 m. tall, 1.30 m. girth). 



This variety differs from the type in its longer and narrower leaves and in the 

 larger fruit. There is also some difference in the seeds; in No. 923^^ they mostly 

 have a very shallow and slight groove on one side, but in No. 914 they are dis- 

 tinctly though not very deeply grooved, while in No. 923 they resemble those of 

 the variety, though according to the leaves and the fruit this number belongs to 

 the type where we have placed it. 



Magnolia denudata Desrousseaux in Lamarck, Encycl. Meth. Bot. 



III. 675 (1791), exceptis synonymis Mokkwuren Kaempfer Amoen. et 

 Magnolia glauca Thunberg. 



Mokkwuren flore alho Kaempfer, Amoen. V. 845 (1712). 



Yulan Cibot in Batteux, Mem. Hist. Chinois. III. 441 (1778). 



Mokkwuren 1. Banks, Icon. Kaempfer t. 43 (1791). 



Magnolia obovata Thunberg in Trans. Linn. Soc. II. 33G (1794), quoad syn- 



onj'mum Kacmpjer Icon. 43. 

 Magnolia prccia Correa de Serra apud Ventenat, Jard. Malm, nota 2, ad. t. 



24 (nomennudum) (1803). — Loiseleur in No7iv. Duhamel. II. 224 (180-?).— 



Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. 1. 331 (1905). 



