MAGXOLIACEiE. 59 



Plate 23, 24. 

 MAGNOLIA, L. 



Sepala 3. Petala 6 — 12. Antherae introrsum adnatse. 

 Carpella indefinita, imbricato-spicata, 2-ovulata ; fructifera 

 coriaceo-baccata, in gynophoro elongato persistentia, sutura 

 dorsali dehiscentia. — Arbores speciosas, gemmis stipularibus 

 teretis; stipulis membranaceis, vernatione folia conduplica- 

 tiva recta invicem claudentes. 



Magnolia, Linn. Gen. 690. Gffirtn. Fr. t. 70. Michx. f. Arb. 3. t. 1-7. 

 DC. Syst. 1. p. 4-19. Torr & Gr. Fl. N. Am. 1. p. 42. Zuccar. 

 PI. Nov. (in Act. Acad. Monac.) fasr. 2. p. Go. t. 3, 4. Endl. 

 Gen. 4737. 



Sepals 3, colored and more or less resembling the petals, 

 spreading or reflexed, early deciduous. Petals 6 to 12, in 

 two to four series, imbricated in aestivation (disposed, along 

 with the sepals, in a regular spiral | order), hypogynous, con- 

 cave, erect-converging, or a little spreading, early deciduous. 

 Stamens indefinite, imbricated in many series upon the 

 stipitiform base of the prolonged receptacle, short, cadu- 

 cous : filaments proper very short, continued into a linear 

 fleshy connective which is produced beyond the anther 

 into a blunt point : anther adnate to its inner face (in- 

 trorse), two-celled ; the cells linear, opening longitudinally. 

 Pistils indefinite, densely imbricated on the upper part of 

 the receptacle (the gynophore) : ovaries fleshy, one-celled, 

 pointed with a short recurved style, which is stigmatose on 

 the inner face. Ovules 2, collateral (rarely 3), borne at the 

 inner angle of the cell, horizontal, anatropous ; the broad 

 raphes face to face : primine thick and fleshy; the secundine 

 thinner. 



Fruit (syncarpium) in the form of a fleshy strobile or 

 cone ; the more or less coalescent imbricated carpels becom- 

 ing baccate, and the endocarp at length ligneo-coriaceous, 



