202 ' MAGNOLIACE^ OP BEITISH INDIA, 



interior narrowly ovate to lanceolate. Stamens about 18 or 20, erect, equal; the anthers 

 oblong obtuse, twice as long as the filaments. Fruit -8 in. to 1 in. in diam., on a 

 pedicel 1 in. long; the individual carpels clavate; the recurved styles subulate, persistent, 



sub-apical. 



Assam; in the Naga Hills,— Summs. 



Platk 30B. Ulicium Siraonsii, Maxim.— f>, flowering branch; 7, flower (seen from 

 below); 8, the same (from above); 9, flower dissected; 10, circle of ovaries; 11, ripe 

 fruit: If natural size; 12, anther; 13, ovaries; 14, individual carpels: enlarged. 



3. Talauma, Juss. 



Trees or shrubs. leaves and inflorescence of Magnolia. Sepals 3 or 4. Petals 6 or 

 8 or more, in 2 or more whorls. Stamens very numerous, many-seriate; anthers linear, 

 introrse. ' Gynophore sessile. Ovaries indefinite, 2-ovuled, spiked or capitate; stigmas 

 decurrent. Carpels woody, separating from the woody axis at the ventral suture, and 

 dehiscing so as to leave the seeds suspended from the axis by an elastic cord ; or spongy 

 and indehiscent, confluent, but finally separating from the axis. Seeds of Magnolia. 



Distrib.— Tropics of Eastern Asia, and South America; Japan. Species about 20. 



Synopsis of speceis. 



Sect. I.— Eu-Talauma. Carpels woody, separating from the axis at, and dehiscing 

 , the ventral suture. 



Leaves, branches and young fruit more or less tomentose . . . . 1. T. lamgera. 



Glabrous. 



Flowers not more than 1*5 in. long. 



Flowers sub-globose ; fruit globose-pyriform ; carpels beaked . 2. T. Andaman ica. 

 Shrubby; flowers and fruit ovoid; leaf-petioles and midribs 



muriculate when dry ; carpels with blunt sub-recurved beaks 3. T. mutahhs. 

 Arboreous ; flowers and fruit ovoid ; petioles slender, smooth ; 



carpels with stout, short, terminal beaks ....... 4. T. Kumtlen. 



Flowers 2 to 3 in. long. 



Sepals and outer row of petals reflexed . 5. T. Eabaniana. 



Sepals and petals scarcely expanding 6. T. Hodgsoni. 



Sect. II. — Spongocarpon. Carpels spongy or corky, indehiscent, confluent; each 

 finally separating from the woody axis and leaving a fibrous framework. 



Leaves elliptic 7 - T - spongocarpa. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate B. T. phellocarpa. 



1. T. lanigera, Boole, fil. 8r Thorns. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 40. A small tree; young leaves, 

 petioles and branches, the peduncles, outer suiface of the spathoid involucre enveloping 

 the calyx, the ovaries, and the young fruit densely fulvous-tomentose. Leaves sub- 

 coriaceous, oblong or oblanceolate, abruptly and shortly acuminate, narrowed at the base ; 

 when adult shining and glabrous except on the lower half of the midrib below; length 

 of blade 9 to 12 in., breadth 25 to 4 in. ; petiole 1 to 1*5 in., thickened below. Sepals 

 and petals white, ovate, tomentose at the very base. Ripe fruit 3 to 4 in. long by 2 in. 

 broad; the carpels glabrescent when quite ripe, beaked, 1*5 in. long. — King in Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. vol. 58, pi. ii, 372. 



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