196 BENGAL PLANTS. 
Behar and Chota Nagpur, common; W. Bengal, rate 
A stunted tree. Bihar. Agor; Beng. Karkotta; Santal. 
Korkot; Uriya Rai. 
13. Diutenta aurea Sm.; F. B. I. i. 37; E. D. D. 428. 
- Bengal, submontane forests. 
A spreading tree. Vernac. Chammagai. 
Order III. MAGNOLIACEZ. 
rees or shrubs, sometimes climbing, usually aromatic; leaves — 
alternate, simple, entire, rarely toothed ; stipules convolute or 0. : 
Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely 1-sexual, axillary or terminal, _ ; 
showy, yellow, white, or pink. Disk 0. Perianth of similar sepals : 
and petals, hypogynous, imbricate, in 8 or more ternate whorls, 
caducous, rarely 0. 
longitudinal, variously introrse, lateral or extrose. Carpels a | 
free or partly united, in 1 or more whorls on a short or long torus; : 
style usually short, stigmatic on inner face; ovules 2-many;— 
or cone of baccate, rarely woody, indehiscent, or of dehiscent 4 
follicular carpels. Seeds 1 or few, funicle sometimes slender; ; 
testa crustaceous and closely united to tegmen, or fleshy er 
tegmen distinct; albumen granular or fleshy or oily; embry? = 
minute. 
Carpels in a loose spike on a stalked gynophore .....s++e+++ee007 Michelia — 
Carpels densely packed on a sessile gynophore .........-+++++99+*1" | 
8. Michelia Linn. 
nate convolute caducous stipules. Flowers solitary, Us 
