

EUPTELEA. 190 



Bisteib. — Chiefly natives of the tropical and temperate Asiatic mountains and United 

 States; a few are Australian. Species about 80. 



Tribe I. Trochodendrem. — Perianth absent 1. Euptelea. 



Tribe II. Winterue. — Shrubs or small trees. Stipules 0. Carpels in one 



whorl 2. Iltkium. 



Tribe III. Magnolia.— Erect shrubs or trees. Stipules conspicuous, con- 

 volute and embracing the leaf-buds, deciduous. Carpels on an elon- 

 gated axis. 



Carpels, when ripe, separating from the sessile carpophore and 



dehiscing ventrally 3. Talauma. 



Carpels not separating from the carpophore, dehiscing dorsally. 



Carpophore usually sessile; carpels closely packed. 



Fruit elongate, cylindric; ovules 2 ....... 4. Magnolia. 



„ ovoid ; ovules 6 ».»»•*»* + ••& Dlanglietia. 

 Carpophore stalked; carpels distant »»••»•••• 6. MtcMia. 



t 



Tribe IV. Schizandrece.— Climbing shrubs. Flowers unisexual. Leaves 



ex stipulate. 



Carpels spicate • 7. Schiznndra. 



„ capitate 8. K ura. 



1. 



Euptelea, Sicb. and Zucc. 



Shrubs. Leaves alternate, decid 



toothed; petiole sheathing; stipules 0. Fl 



pedicelled, polygamo-dioecio 



Sepals 



d petals 



Stamens 1 5 



20 



in one whorl 



Carpels 



cent : 



many as the stamens, pedicelled, obovate, much compressed, winged 



del 



ns- 



stigma 



sessile, decurrent from the tip to opposite the insertion of the ovule. 



Fruit of indehiscent, dry, flat-winged 



1 



4-seeded 



pels 



Seeds closely packed 



testa 



hard, coriaceous; albumen granul 



embrj 



minute. Distrib.— Two species: the foil 



ing and a Jap 



1 



E. PLKIOSPERMA, Hook, fil. <Sf ThoMS 



mooth, blotched with grey 



leaf-bud 



i Proc. Linn. Soc. vii, 240, t. 2. Branches 

 ed in shining, dark-coloured scales. Laves 



membranous, ovate-rotund; acute, serrate, narrowed to the base 

 pal 



above glab 



beneath 



nerves about 10 pairs 



bold, oblique; length 



3 to 5 in., breadth 2 > to 3*5 in. 



? 



petiole 1-5 in., dilated 



the base.— Hook. fil. FL Br. Ind 



Mishmi Hills 



Except those 



the top 



f Mount Thumatl 



i, 39 

 Griffith 



llected by Griffith in 1837 (and they are rather imperfect) 



pe 



mens 



of this are extant; the 



figure 



which I give is therefore an incomplete one. This 



species does not differ very much fro 



th 



e 



uly otl 



yet 



) 



viz. E. polyandra 



Sieb 



Zucc. Fl. Jaj- 



134, t. 72 



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Plate 38A. Euptelea pleiosperma 



i 



Hook. fil. Sf Thm*.— Twig with leaf-bud, leaf 



and fruit: of natural size. 



2. 



Illicium, Linn. 



Evergreen aromatic shrubs or small trees. L 



entire, pellucid-dotted. Fl 



bisexual, solitary or fascicled, yell 



or purplish. Sepals 3 to 6 



Petals 9 or more, 



Akn. Roy. Box. Gaed. Calcutta, Vol. III. 



