Talauma] III. MAGXOLIACE^! 9 



5. T. spongocarpa, King, Ann. iii. tab. 47 (bis). Upper Burma. Secondary nerves 

 7-9 pair, prominent beneath, as well as the shorter intermediate ones. 0. T. pnellocarpa, 

 King, Ann. iii. t. 47 (ter). Sib-sagar district and Mikir lulls. Assam. Seeondary 

 nerves 12-16 pair, not much more distinct than the reticulate veins between them. 



EUicium, Linn., comprises several evergreen aromatic shrubs with coriaceous leaves, 

 readily known by the arrangement of the one-seeded carpels in one radiating whorl. 



When ripe they are woody and split at the upturned ventral suture, so that "tic- - I 



I mi's visible. Of the Indian species T. Griffithii, Hook. f. & Thorns.: Ann. Bot. 



Gard. Calc. iii. 40a. Bhutan, Khasi hills, with 10-15 ovaries, is tic- most notable. 

 T. anisatum. Loureiro, of China, yields tin- well known Star-anise. 



5. SCHIZANDRA, Michaux ; Fl. Brit, Ind. i. 44. 



Climbing shrubs with exstipulate, glabrous, mostly membranous leaves. Fl. 

 unisexual. Sepals and petals similar, 9 or 12, in triinerous whorls. <$ : 5-30 

 stamens, filaments often fleshy and confluent, anthers free or more or less 

 immersed in the fleshy mass of confluent filaments. ? : Ovaries numerous, 

 densely imbricate round a conical torus, which elongates considerably when 

 the carpels ripen. Species 0, mountains of India, China, Java and North 

 America. 



A. Filaments connate below, free above. 



1. S. grandiflora, Hook. fil. & Thorns.; Ann. iii. t. 69a; Collett, Simla 

 Fl. fig. (i. Vera. lioal, Pateraalla; Ballon, Jaunsar ; Singoto, Nepal. 



Leaves membranous, approximate at the ends of branchlets, 3-4 in. long, 

 with distant minute obtuse teeth, petioles slender, |-1 in. long. Fl. white, 

 fragrant, solitary, nodding, more than 1 in. across, on slender peduncles l.\ in. 

 long. Fruit with a cylindrical fleshy axis. 6 -9 in. long, bearing numerous 

 scarlet fleshy 2-seeded carpels. 



Himalaya, from the Sutlej eastwards, 6,000-10,000 ft. Fl. May. June Extends to 

 Western China. 2. S. elongata, Hook. f. & Thorns.; Ann. Bot. G. Calc. iii. t. 69 B. 

 Himalaya, from Nepal eastwards. 5.1 it x i-s.i inn ft.. China, a powerful climber, leaves 

 broader, petioles longer. Fl. yellowish, smaller, less than 1 in. across. Fruiting spike 

 8—1 in. long. 



B. Filaments connate into a flesh}- mass. 



8. S. propinqua, Hook. f. & Thorns.; Ann. iii. t. 11a. Sub-himalayan tract, from 

 Garhwal eastwards, ascending to 5,000 ft., China. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, petiole ! 

 in. Fl. yellow or orange, | in. djam.. on short pedicels. Fruiting spike fleshy, 6 in. 



long. I. s. axillaris, Hook. f. & 'II -. : Ann. iii. i. 74a. Khasi hill-, si States, 



Upper Burma, 4,000 ft. Differs bj Tower lanceolate, thinlj coriaceous leaves. Fl. 



small, scarlet. Fruiting Tspike 1-2 in. long. 



Kadsura, Kaempfer. comprises several large glabrous w ly climbers, the le 



without stipules, fl. unisexual, the frail a globose head of indehiscenl fleshy i-~.M-d.-d 



carpels. I. K. Roxburghiana, Arnott; Ann. iii. i. 78a, Fool of Eastern IIm 



5,000 ft., Assam Structure of wood normal, vessels large. Leaves ovate lanceolate, 



inner filaments i nate, fruit I 2 in diam., carpels shortly beaked. 2. K. Wightiana, 



Am.: A mi. i ii. t . 7 1 1; Malabar. Leaves broadlj ovate, denticulate in the upper half, 

 filamenl s all free, ca rpela I rancate. 



Order IV. ANONACEvE. Gen. PI. i. 20. 



Trees or shrubs, creel or climbing, bark of brancldots marke 1 by tiiimei..u~ 

 longitudinal anastomosing narrow ridges. Leaves alternate", simple, entire, 



exstipulate. Flowers bisexual, rarely unisexual, Sepals .">. Er room 



usually valvate. Petals 6, hypogynous, biseriate, the 3 inner sometimes wan! 

 ing. Stamens usually aumerous, filaments shorl or aone, the 2 anthei cells 



