MAGNOLIACEAE. — MAGNOLIA 403 



Mokkwuren 2. Banks, Icon. Kaempfer 44 (1791). 



Magnolia obovata Thunbcrg in Trans. Linn. Soc. II. 336 (1794), quoad sjti- 

 onymum Mokkwuren et Icon. Select, t. 44. — Willdenow, Spec. II. 1257 

 (1799), synonymo M. obovata Thunberg et Icon. Kaempfer t. 43 excluden- 

 dis. — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 16 (1875). — Keisuke Ito, 

 Fig. Descr. PI. Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, I. t. 7 " Shimokuren " (1884). — 

 Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 23 (1886). — Finot & Gagnepain in 

 Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LII. M6m. IV. 37 (1905); Contrib. Fl. As. Or. II. 37 

 (1907). 



Magnolia purpurea Curtis in Bot. Mag. XI. t. 390 (1797). 



Magnolia discolor Ventenat, Jard. Malm. t. 24 (1803). 



Magnolia gracilis Salisbury, Parad. Lond. II. t. 87 (1807). 



Yulania japonica Spach, Hist. Veget. VII. 466 (1839). 



Buergeria obovata Siebold & Zuccarini in Abh. Akad. Munch. IV. pt. II. 187 

 {Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. I. 79) (1843). 



Talaumaf Sieboldi Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. II. 257 (Prol. Fl. Jap. 

 145) (1865-1866). 



Talauma obovata Hance in Jour. Bot. XX. 2 (non Korthals) (1882). 



Magnolia denudata Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. I. 330 (non Desrous- 

 seaux) (1905). 



Western Hupeh: Changyang Hsien, wayside thicket, rare, alt. 500-600 m., 

 April 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 192). 



This Magnolia so long cultivated in China and Japan is without doubt a native 

 of China, probably of the warm temperate districts south of the Yangtsze river. 

 It is questionable, however, if the specimen enumerated above is a genuinely wild 

 one or merely from an escape from cultivation. 



The fact that Desrousseaux in his otherwise correct description made the mis- 

 take of calling the flowers white, is not a sufficient reason to reject his name, as 

 pointed out in the note under M. denudata, where also it is explained how he came 

 to make this mistake. The name M. obovata used by almost all authors for 

 M. lilifiora must now replace M. hypoleuca Siebold & Zuccarini, for Thunberg's 

 description of M. obovata and part of its synonyms refer to M. hypoleuca and his 

 type specimen represents this species. Thunberg confused two other species mth 

 his M. obovata, namely, M. lilifiora and M. denudata, but to M. liliflora belong only 

 the reference to Kaempfer's Mokkwuren and that to t. 44 of Kaempfer's Icones, and 

 to M. denudata Desrousseaux belongs only the reference to t. 43 of Kaempfer's 

 Icones, while the description of the leaves as well as the Japanese synonym Fo- 

 no-ki (now transliterated Ho-no-ki) and the synonym M. glauca (at least in part) 

 belong to M. hypoleuca Siebold & Zuccarini. Willdenow (I. c.) was apparently 

 the first to change Thunberg's description of M. obovata to make it apply to the 

 leaves of M. liliflora, and all later authors have followed him. 



CONSPECTUS SPECIERUM ASIATICARUM.» 



Of some of the species (Nos. 17, 21, 22) the flowers, and of No. 18 the leaves, 

 are unknown; these have been placed ncai- the species to which they seem most 

 closely related according to their other characters. 



1 Magnolia Martini L6veill6 in Bull. Soc. Agric. Sci. Sarthe, LIX. 321 (1904) ; in 

 Fedde Rep. Nov. Sp. VI. 374 (1909), from Kwei-chou has been omitted, as we have 

 seen no specimens and the description is too incomplete; it is probably not a 

 Magnolia, but a Michelia. 



