Tetracera] II. DILLEXIACE.E 5 



gradually narrows into the filament. Carpels 3-5, free, coriaceous, dehiscent 

 when ripe. Species 2-i, in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



1. T. laevis, Vahl.— Syn. T. Rhcedii,~DC; Wight Ic. t. 70. 



A glabrous climber. Leaves elliptic -oblong, entire or distantly dentate, 

 3-5 in. long, secondary nerves 6-8 pair. Fl. white, 1 in. diam. 



Malabar and Travaneore, Ceylon. PL March. 2. T. Assa, DC. (Chittagong, Lover 

 Burma, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago) is similar, but has hairy branchlets. 



3. DELIMA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 31. 



(Included under Tetracera by Gilg in Engler u. Prantl, iii. 0, 112.) 



Characters of Tetracera, but leaves crenate-serrate and carpel solitary, 

 with 2-3 ovules. Seed solitary, with a cup-shaped, toothed arillus in a 

 coriaceous follicle. Species 2, one in South America. 



D. sarmentosa, Linn. ; Kurz, F. Fl. i. 22. 



An evergreen, large climber, with rough reddish-brown branches. Leaves 

 elliptic, blade 3-G, petiole | in. long, secondary nerves 10-20 pair, prominent 

 beneath, very rough from minute, adpressed scattered stiff hairs. Fl. small 

 white, in large axillary and terminal panicles. 



Assam, Cachar, Chittagong, Buraia. Fl. E.S.— Malaj- Peninsula and Archipelago 



Order III. MAGNOLIACE^. Gen. PI. i. 16. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing, often aromatic. Leaves alternate, in 

 most genera with amplexicaul convolute deciduous stipules. Flowers solitary, 

 generally large and bisexual. Sepals and petals similar, arranged as a rule in 

 triinerous whorls. Stamens free, numerous, anther cells adnate fcp filaments. 

 ( (varies numerous, generally spirally arranged on the elongated torus. < h dies 

 attached to the ventral suture. Embryo minute, in an abundant oily 

 albumen. 



Important anatomical characters : Sacs containing resin in the parenchyma of leaves, 



often visible as transparent dots; w 1 fibres with bordered pits, the wood of Drimyt 



(South America, Australia, Borneo) consisting entirely of such fibres with bordered 

 pits, without vessels, res bling the wood of Conifers. 



A. Shrubs or trees, stipules convolute, embracing the leafbuds. PI. bisexual, carpels 

 in fruit on an elongated axis. 



a. Carpels dehiscing dorsally, not separating from the axis. 

 Ovaries immediately over the stamens, or only separated from them by a short 

 interval j carpels in fruit closely packed. 



Ovules •_'. fruit eylindl'ir .... 1. UaOSOLIA. 



Ovules 6 or more, fruit ovoid 2. Manolietia. 



Ovaries separated by b disl incl internode from Btamens, 

 carpels in fruit more or less distant . . . . 8. Michelia. 



'.. Carpels dehiscing ventrallj or indehiscent, separating 



from the axis . . I. Tim ma. 



B. Shrubs, stipules 0. PI. bisexual, carpels in one whorl . Illiciuh (p. 9). 



C. Climbing shrubs, stipules 0. PI. unisexual 



Pruiting carpels in on elongated spike .... 6. Schiiahdea. 

 Pruiting carpels in a globose head Eajisub* p 9). 



