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PLATE CCXXVI. 



MAGNOLIA PUMILA. 



Dwarf Magnolia. 



CLASS XIIL ORDER VIL 

 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. :Many Chives. Many Pointals. 



GENERIC CHARACTEK. 



Calyx. Perianthium triphyllum; foliolis ovatis, 

 concavis, petaliformibus, deciduis. 



Corolla. Petala novem, oblonga, concava, ob- 

 tufa, bafi anguftiora. 



Stamina. Filamenta numerofa, brevia, acumi- 

 nata, compreffa, receptaculo communi pif- 

 tillorum infra germina inferta. Antherae 

 lineares, margiiii filamentorutn utrinque 

 adnatcc. 



Pistilla. Germina numerofa, ovato-oblonga, 

 bllocularia, receptaculum clavatum tegen- 

 tia. Styli recurvi, contorti, breviflimi. Stig- 

 mata longitudinalia styli, villofa. 



Pericarpium. Strobilus ovatus, teftus capfulis 

 corapreffis, fubrotundis, vix imbricatis, con- 

 fertis, acutis, unilocularibus, bivalvibus, fef- 

 filibus, extrorfum dehifcentibus, perfiften- 

 tibus. 



Semina bins feu folitaria, fubrotunda, baccata, 

 tilo pendentia ex linu fingulae fquamae ftro- 

 bili. 



Empalement. Cup three-leaved; leaflets egg- 

 Ihaped, concave, the form of the petals, fall- 

 ing off. 



Blossom. Nine petals, oblong, concave, obtufe, 

 narrower at the bafe. 



Chives. Threads numerous, fhort, tapered, flat- 

 tened, inferted below the feed-buds into the 

 common receptacle of the Pointals. Tips 

 linear, flxed on fide to the margin of the 

 threads. 



Pointals. Seed-buds numerous, oblong-egg- 

 fhaped, two-celled, covering a club-lliaped 

 receptacle. Shafts turned backward, twifted, 

 very fhort. Summits grow out of the fliaft» 

 longitudinally, hairy. 



Seed-vessel. Cone egg-lliaped covered with 

 capfules which are flattened, roundith, 

 fcarcely tiled, crowded, pointed, one-celled, 

 two-valved, fitting clofe to the receptacle, 

 fplitting from the outfide and remaining. 



Seeds by twos or folitary, roundifh, like berries, 

 hanging by a thread from the infide of each 

 fcale of the cone. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Magnolia foliis elipticis, undulatis, acurainatis, 

 fubglaucis; floribus nutantibus, albis; pe- 

 talis camofis, obovatis, concavis. 



Magnolia with eliptic, waved leaves, tapered to 

 a point, rather glaucous; flowers hanging 

 down and white; petals thick, inverfely 

 egg-fhaped and concave. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . One of the outer petals. 



2. An inner petal. 



3. The Chives and Pointals, on the receptacle. 



4. The outfide of one of the Chives. 



5. The infide of ihe fame. 



6. The fame, magnified. 



7. The Pointals. 



The Magnolia pumila, (as are, generally, all plants upon their firft arrival from China,) has been 

 hitherto treated as a hotlioufe plant; by which means, a continued foliage has been preferved: but, 

 from eveiy appearance of the plant, it is by nature deciduous, and, certainly hardy enough to be pre- 

 ferved in the greenhoufe, if not to bear the expofure of the open ground. It grows to the height ot 

 about two feet, flowers in the liot-houle about September or later, and is propagated by cuttings. The 

 bloflbms are very fragrant, but of fhort duration. To the late J. Slater, Efq of Laytonftone, we owe 

 this plant; which was one of that rich cargo brought home in the Carnatic, for him, by Captain 

 Connor, in the year 1793. Our figure was taken at the Hanimerfmiih nnrfery. The accelfion to 

 this magnificent Genus has been confiderable within a very few years : to the fpecies formerly culti- 

 vated in Britain, viz. the grandijlora with its four varieties, the gtauca and its two varieties, the 

 acuminata and tripetala, are now added; the auriculata and maxima, from America; the pumila, 

 fuscata and tomentosa or Yow-lnng, from China; making in all, with the varieties, fifteen. The fliort 

 acquaintance we have with the three laft from China, or the knowledge of what part of that extenfive 

 country they are natives, does not enable us to decide, whether they will endure our winters; although 

 we may on the two from America, as being hardy plants, or at len^t equally hardy with the grnnHr 

 fiora, being from the fame parr of America 



