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woods and thickets, alt. 1300 m. June 22, 1910 (No. 4601 ; tree 20 m. 

 tall, 2 m. girth) ; Changyang Hsien, moist woods, April 6, 1900, and 

 September 1901 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 21, 21» and seed No. 688). 

 Szech'uan: without locality, A. Henry (No. 5651). — Cultivated 

 in Japan. 



This handsome variety is the common Magnoha in western Hupeh and eastern 

 Szech'uan and is fairly plentiful in moist woods and thickets between 1000-1800 

 m. altitude. The bark on the trunk and older branches is light gray, rather smooth 

 and peals off in small irregular flakes; the branches are ascending and spread- 

 ing giving the tree a pyramidal outline but commonly in the large trees they are 

 spreading, forming a flat-topped tree. The flowers are saucer-shaped and vary 

 from rose-red without to rose or pale pink within; the stamens and the carpels 

 are also rose-red in color. In early April this Magnolia with its handsome, 

 fragrant flowers is a striking object in the woodland landscape. 



A colloquial name is " Yin-tuen shu " and the bark like that of allied species 

 is valued as a drug known as " Mu-pi." Pictures of this tree will be found under 

 Nos. 567, 579 and 0124 of the collection of Wilson's photographs and also in his 

 Vegetation of Western China, Nos. 306, 307. 



Magnolia denudata, var. elongata Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 



Arbor 12-15-metralis, trunco ambitu 1-2 m., ramis erecto-patulis. 

 Foha glabra, oblongo-obovata, breviter subito acuminata, basi cuneata, 

 12-15 cm. longa et 4.5-6 cm. lata. Flores albi; fragrantes; sepala 

 petalaque oblongo-obovata v. spathulato-oblonga, 7-9 cm. longa et 

 2-4 cm. lata; stamina 1.5-1.8 cm. longa, filamentis 4-6 mm. longis 

 rubris, connectivo apice elongato acuto; gynaecium cum parte stami- 

 nifera 3-3.5 cm. longum, stigmatibus quam in typo longioribus. 

 Fructus ut in typo. 



Western Hupeh: Changyang Hsien, woodlands and open coun- 

 try, alt. 1000-1200 m., April and September 1907 (No. 345, type); 

 same locality, April 1901 (Veitch Exped. No. 444). 



This variety resembles the type in its pure white flowers but is readily dis- 

 tinguished by its much larger leaves, sepals, petals and stamens. This Magnoha 

 is rather rare, but occurs occasionally in western Hupeh and eastern Szech'uan. 

 In habit the tree is pyramidal from the ascending and spreading character of the 

 branches. 



Here may be added an account of another Chinese species, M. liliflora Des- 

 rousseaux, the synonymy of which is much involved with that of the preceding 

 species. 



Magnolia liliflora Desrousseaux in Lamarck, Encycl. MSth. Bot. III. 675 

 (1791), excepto synonymo: Mokkwuren flore albo Kaempfer, A7noen. 



Mokkwuren " Frutex Tulipifer . . . fiore Lilio-narcissi rubente," Kaempfer, 



Amoen. V. 845 (1712). 

 Magnolia glauca, ^. fiore magna atropurpureo Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 236 (1784), 

 synonymo Fo no ki et descriptione foHorum exceptis. 



