MAGXOLU. 



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of blade 6 to 8 in., breadth 2-5 to 3 in.; petiole -3 in. FLoicen terminal, solitary 

 shortly pedunculate ; buds ovoid ; the spathoid bract villous like the pedicel. Sepals 3 

 oblong. Petals about 6, of the same Shape as the sepals, but smaller, yellowish-white 

 glabrous, 1 to 1-3 in. long. Ovaries villous. Ripe fruit cylindric, 1-5 in. long b; 6 

 diam. ; the individual carpels ovoid, nut beaked, -35 in. long, Jlous. 



Malacca (Maingay No. 17); Perak; Penang; in dei *3 low forest up to 2,o00 feet 

 Plate 45B. Magnolia Maingayi, King.— 6, branch with flower; 7, leaf stipules 

 8, flower-bud ; 9, anthers ; 10, ripe fruit,— all of natural size. 



m. 



5. M. Gustavi, King, n. sp. A tall tree; all parts quite glabrous; tho branchleN 

 slender, dark, not lenticellatc. Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceol. or oblanceolato, 

 acuminate; the base much narrowed, unequal; upper surface shining; tho lov r dull, sub- 

 glaucous; the minute reticulations distinct on both; nerves 10 to 14 pairs; length 5 t 

 7 in., breadth 1*25 to 175 in.; petiole '25 in. Stipules not seen. FUmen terminal and 

 axillary, solitary, on slender peduncles 1*5 to 2 in. long, 3 to 4 in. in diam. when fully 

 expanded; buds oblong-ovoid, 1*25 in. long; spathoid bract broadly ovoid, coriaceous, 

 smooth. Sepals and petals 9, nearly equal in Mze, oblanceolato, blunt: the petals Ooriac >us, 

 the sepals membranous. Stamens little more than *5 in. long, much shorter than the 

 densely imbricate gynoecium. Ovaries sessile, smooth; tho styles recurved. Fruit (even 

 when half-ripe) clavate (from the abortion of tho lower ovarios); when ripe, 2*5 to 3'd" 

 in. long and 1-5 in. in diam.; individual carpels very little compressed, sub-orbicular, 



not beaked, sessile, glabrous, about -75 in. long.— Michelia Gustavi, King MSS. 



Makum Forest, Upper Assam, at elevations of 1,000 to 2,000 feet,— G. Mann. 



A species hitherto found only by Mr. Gustav Mann in the botanically little-known 

 Makum Forest in Assam, and named in his honour. It approaches MicMia Calhcartii, 

 Hook. fil. & Thorns., very closely in many respects, and notably in its leaves, which are. 

 however, longer and have minuter reticulations than those of M. Cathcartii, and at all 

 ages are glabrous. There is also great similarity in the flowers of tho two plants 

 but the sepals and petals of Magnolia Gustavi are narrower, and the stamens are much 

 shorter than the same organs in Michelia Gustavi. This moreover has no gynophore. 



Magnolia Gustavi is found at quite low elevations (1,000 to 2,000 feet); whereas MickeUa 

 Cathcartii never occurs lower than 5,000 and it ascends to 7,000 feet. 



Plate 61. Magnolia Gustavi, King.-l, branch with fully expanded flower; 2 and 3 



buds enclosed in their spathoid bracts; 4, half-opened bud; 5, gynoecium; 7, twig with 



very 



young fruit; 8, fruit at an older stage; 9, ripe fruit: of natural size; 6, stamens: 



slightly enlarged. 



6. M. Griffithii, Hook. fil. $ Thorns. Fl. Br. Ind. i, 41. ^ A large tree ; the 3 



branches densely covered with deciduous, yellowish, silky hair. Leaves sub 



ptic-oblong 



elliptic, very shortly acuminate, minutely undulate 



base sub 



surface smooth, except the sometimes pubescent midrib ; the reticulations minute 



i- J f' /„ n pn drvl • lower surface at first sericeous-tomentose, finally pubescent or 



SSL «L M» 20 pairs, rather prominent beneath; length to 13 in., breadth 4 



t 5 n • petiole -75 in, stout; stipules narrow, I in. long, externally senceous. Flo,, 

 to 5 in., pew » expanded. The buds enveloped in a 



1°S w^hlch, Uke "hJ pedice,, is covered with whnish, ^£- «J 



in. Ion-. Sepals 3, narrowly oblong, obtuse ; petals 6, like the sepal, 



thoid bract 



pedicel 1*5 to 2 



