62 MAGNOLIACE^E. 



PLATE 24. Magnolia Umbrella, Lam. (Botanic Garden, Cambridge) 



1. Cone of ripe fruit, of the natural size ; some of the carpels dehiscent ; 



one of the seeds hanging by its cord of spiral vessels. 



2. Longitudinal section of the same. 



3. A detached dehiscent carpel (the exterior fleshy portion dried up). 



4. Transverse section of a seed, placed with the raphe towards the eye. 



5. Vertical section of the same, passing, as in fig. 4, through the exte- 



rior baccate integument, the less thick and bony inner integument, 

 and the albumen ; showing also the embryo next the hilum. 



6. Embryo, much magnified. 



7. Summit of a branch terminated by a bud, in autumn ; the outermost 



pair of stipules removed, to exhibit one of the longitudinally folded 

 leaves. 



8. The outer pair of stipules, detached from the bud, fig. 7. 



9. Transverse section of the bud, cutting across the stipular envelopes, 



the conduplicate leaves, and the parts of the flower which they 

 surround. 



